10 x 7, approx. 50 b&w photos When Cores Were Done is a collection of stories about rural life in the 1940's and 1950's as seen through the eyes of a child. from working with draft horses to doing chores, reminiscences of outhouses, and learning cusswords, Apps iuncludes his recollections of how warm, loving, and supremely educational growing up on a farm could be.