Author: Carol Bodensteiner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780979799709
Category : Country life
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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In Growing Up Country: Memories of an Iowa Farm Girl, Carol Bodensteiner tells the stories of a happy childhood growing up on a family-owned dairy farm in the middle of America in the 1950s, a time when a family could make a good living on 180 acres.
Author: Nadine A. Block
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
ISBN: 1662430434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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Remembering Rosie is about Block's childhood on a Wisconsin dairy farm in the mid-twentieth century. Growing up on the homestead with her parents and siblings was often idyllic. Still, it never stopped Block from dreaming of making a different life for herself despite many obstacles she'd face in trying to leave the land her German great-grandparents settled in the 1880s.Block and her siblings experienced long hours of tedious and dangerous work. Educational opportunities were limited, and the Ludwig children's one-room school had poorly trained teachers and few books. There was no expectation of girls going on to higher education. Block's observations of her depressive mother, the drudgery of farm life, and the short, cruel lives of farm animals were driving forces that made her take a path less followed. During a time when going against the grain was difficult, Block's restlessness and desire to see a world outside her sheltered community catapulted her into a life that the blue-eyed, blond-haired farm girl never could have imagined.
Author: Candace Simar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983178576
Category : Book club in a bag
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Poetry and prose from two sisters with Norwegian ancestors.
Author: Maria Hoskins
Publisher: C&v 4 Seasons Publishing
ISBN: 9780986403637
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Describes Christmas Eve night on a farm where the narrator sees angels who tell her the story of Jesus' birth.
Author:
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781565547537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Describes each season of farm life experienced by the author on his farm in Hampton, Iowa during the 1920s and 1930s and illustrates seasonal farm work from spring plowing to fall harvesting.
Author: Judith Viorst
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416985956
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Recounts the events of a day when everything goes wrong for Alexander. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Author: Peggy Prilaman Marxen
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN: 0870209574
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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"Peggy Marxen grew up in the somewhat isolated environment of northwestern Wisconsin's Sawyer County, yet was surrounded by close-knit extended family. In 1916, after a lengthy search conducted by train and bicycle, her grandparents settled a forty next to Badger Creek, in the hilly cutover land that remained after lumberjacks harvested thousands of acres of pines. They arrived just before the creation of the Township of Meteor in 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s her parents and an uncle and aunt built homes near her grandparents and began to raise their small families. Multiple generations of her family witnessed the changes to rural Wisconsin, which changed the fabric of their lives and the lives of all in their community: new farming techniques, education, transportation, and technology, among others. Peggy's traditional farm family supplemented their subsistence herd of dairy cows by hunting and fishing and selling timber and maple syrup. Her home, like those of the neighbors, for a time lacked indoor plumbing, electricity, and a telephone. Until statewide school consolidation (when Peggy was in 5th grade), she attended a one-room schoolhouse and walked, biked, or sledded the three miles to school and back, no matter the weather. Through her girlhood eyes, Peggy Marxen traces her family's story through the best and worst of times, examining the strength of Wisconsin's small communities. Her book is a fitting tribute to her settler ancestors and a way of life now gone-and a celebration of the hardy people of northwestern Wisconsin"--
Author: Judith Kuipers Walhout
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 197369378X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Book Description
A Farm Girl’s Memories is Judith’s first book. If you like reading the Little House On The Prairie books, you will also enjoy reading how Judith’s family did things . . . like in the “olden days.” Also, she includes numerous interesting, incredible, and surprising stories that happened to her and her siblings as they grew up on a small farm in rural Michigan. You should find her book informative, stirring, inspirational and it will keep your attention and interest as you read through the chapters.
Author: Frances Gillette
Publisher: Fran Gillette Cookbooks
ISBN: 9780963606686
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This country cookbook by Frances A. Gillette is packed with favorite recipes that appeal to the whole family, with beautiful full-color photographs, fun stories, and fascinating history.
Author: Aranka Siegal
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN: 1466832541
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Piri is a city girl, but every year she goes to visit her grandmother Babi on her farm in the Ukrainian village of Komjaty. There is a lot that Piri finds strange, even scary, in Komjaty, such as the ghost in the form of a rooster who supposedly haunts the cemetery! But Piri loves country life: making corn bread, eating plums right off the tree, venturing out with her grandmother in the early morning to hunt for mushrooms. And during her time with Babi, Piri learns lessons that will stay with her all of her life, about the importance of honest hard work, of caring for the less fortunate, and of having the courage to stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves. In these nine stories, Aranka Siegal paints a tender portrait of the love between a grandmother and granddaughter, inspired by her own experiences with her grandmother. Memories of Babi is a 2009 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.
