| Ira's Farm: Growing up on a self-sustaining farm in the 1930's and 1940's Contributor(s): Johnson, Virginia (Author) |
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ISBN: 0692100318 ISBN-13: 9780692100318 Publisher: Virginia Johnson OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 5.5" W x 8.25" (0.30 lbs) 102 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A WWI veteran with a young family, Ira bought a sixty-acre farm in the rural community of Harlan Michigan just ninety days before the October 1929 stock market crash and its ensuing financial crisis. He fashioned a living with a team of horses and a never-give-up work ethic on land his wife often called "sand banks" when a harvest failed. This memoir covers a thirty-year span of farming through the eyes of Ira's daughter who went from a bare-footed carefree girl to a "hired hand" when her older brother joined the Navy in 1942. She drove horses, hauled hay, picked up stones, bagged milkweed pods and a myriad of other tasks. For senior citizens it may bring back childhood memories. Young readers will perhaps experience a tinge of fantasy or a scene from TV's Walton family. An easy read about rural farm life in the thirties and forties |