Download or read book A Dakota Farm Boy Remembers written by C. A. Renschler and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dakota Farm Boy Remembers written by Clarence A. Renschler and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memoir of Clarence A. Renschler of his family, childhood, school years, life on the farm, and his experiences with being a Adventist pastor.
Download or read book Time s Shadow written by Arnold J. Bauer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold Bauer grew up on his family's 160-acre farm in Goshen Township in Clay County, Kansas, amidst a land of prairie grass and rich creek-bottom soil. His meditative and moving account of those years depicts a century-long narrative of struggle, survival, and demise. A coming-of-age memoir set in the 1930s to 50s, it blends local history with personal reflection to paint a realistic picture of farm life and families from a now-lost world. Bauer's was typical of true family farms, where wives supplemented family income by selling butter and eggs and children provided unpaid labor. These hardworking farmers were not particularly heroic or virtuous. They had their debts and doubts; but at the same time their struggles for a kind of moral economy offer valuable lessons that merit our attention today. Among Bauer's vivid recollections: driving a team of huge, clomping work horses; his father's daybreak call to long days in the field at age 12; and surviving eight years of education in a one-room schoolhouse (with one teacher determined to have all her students learn the harmonica). He shares the trials of Depression and drought, experiences the coming of electricity-which prompted his father to take on a sideline as an electrician-and reveals the vital importance of the local blacksmith. Throughout the book, he finds wonder in the commonplace, like going to town on a Saturday night for a black walnut ice cream cone. Here is a childhood that few in the United States will ever know. More than that, it is a key to understanding the tragedy that befell the smaller family farms on the Great Plains as sweeping changes after the mid-1950s-falling grain and livestock prices, adverse terms of trade for agricultural products-turned out to be more devastating than tornados or dust storms. Gracefully written with a keen eye for the telling detail, Time's Shadow eloquently captures the events of an era and the meaning it held for one boy and those around him. It is a refreshingly unsentimental "Little House on the Prairie" that will resonate not only with older compatriots but with anyone whose curiosity leads them to wonder about a world we have lost.
Download or read book Westhope written by Dean Hulse and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Try to Remember written by Judith Freeland and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Try to Remember is a six-year journey through the memories and musings of a man diagnosed with Alzheimer's. It opens with a moment of Greg's forgetfulness, an early symptom of the disease that would exile him to a nursing home for the rest of his life. Mostly, it is stories told to anyone who would listen: of his boyhood in the early 20th century in a small village in Minnesota, spending summers from the age of ten with harvest crews throughout the grain belt states; his early adulthood during the Great Depression and the less-trumpeted dust bowl years when jobs were scarce and ill-paid. He remembers his joys during courtship, marriage, and fatherhood; his triumphs as an entrepreneur involved on the fringes of Canadian politics: his love of horses. His mind returns again and again to summers at the family lake cottage; the night a bear raided the icebox; the day he feared a daughter had drowned; the night the Northern Lights spectacularly outshone Fourth of July fireworks. The memories are funny and sad, exciting and mundane, terrifying and comforting. As scattered as his memories is his fleeting awareness that his mind was failing him.
Download or read book The Farm written by Mark J. Curran and published by Authors Book Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embark on a captivating literary journey with Mark Curran, retired professor from Arizona State University. From his tenure teaching Spanish and Portuguese to his prolific retirement, Curran's narrative spans decades of exploration. Through autobiographical reflections and scholarly pursuits, Curran delves into Brazil's vibrant culture, offering unique insights into its "Literatura de Cordel." But it's in recent years that Curran's storytelling takes an exciting turn, as he ventures into fictionalized accounts of his travels and experiences. "The Farm" is just the first step in the long journey. Join Curran as he invites readers to traverse continents, weaving between reality and imagination. With each page, discover new landscapes, cultures, and insights, inviting you to explore, reflect, and dream.
Download or read book Tumbleweeds Remembered written by Milt Ost and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Oster’s family has been planters of seeds for generations untold. But Edward feels a call to be a fisher of men. Along with his wife, Denise, their journey takes them from the rolling Midwestern prairies to blue Mediterranean waters, from the walls of San Quentin to the walls of the Kremlin, from fire tower on mountain top to the great pyramids of Giza. They dig through history in ancient Caesarea, and marvel at the monster machines digging North Dakota Black gold. They have people to love, a might Word to proclaim, and a Cross to hold high. Theirs is a journey of discovery and a husbanding of traditions as they remember the tumbleweeds of their youth and plant roses of hope for the future.
Download or read book A Life to Remember written by Margaret Brownell Lorenzen and published by Ithaca Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Farm Boy s Journey written by Bud Veer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Billionaire s Jet Set Babies written by Catherine Mann and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While cleaning a jet for entrepreneur Seth Jansen, Alexa Randall finds the strangest items: his one-year-old twins! Seth needs a temporary nanny; Alexa needs time for a one-on-one business pitch. So she says yes to an intimate stay on a lush Florida island—and yes to the man whose passion makes her question the choices she's made. Living in luxury brings back memories of the world she left behind. The babies remind her of the family she once wanted. And the nights with Seth are…incomparable. This billionaire could be the man of her dreams—if he's not out of her league.
Download or read book Coming Out Under Fire written by Allan Bérubé and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. In Coming Out Under Fire, Allan Berube examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontation--not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how a dynamic power relationship developed between gay citizens and their government, transforming them both. Drawing on GIs' wartime letters, extensive interviews with gay veterans, and declassified military documents, Berube thoughtfully constructs a startling history of the two wars gay military men and women fough--one for America and another as homosexuals within the military. Berube's book, the inspiration for the 1995 Peabody Award-winning documentary film of the same name, has become a classic since it was published in 1990, just three years prior to the controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which has continued to serve as an uneasy compromise between gays and the military. With a new foreword by historians John D'Emilio and Estelle B. Freedman, this book remains a valuable contribution to the history of World War II, as well as to the ongoing debate regarding the role of gays in the U.S. military.
Download or read book Billionaire s Jet Set Babies The Nanny Bombshell written by Catherine Mann and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-03-16 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two fan-favorite stories of powerful men…wrapped around their babies' little fingers Billionaire's Jet Set Babies by Catherine Mann While cleaning a jet for entrepreneur Seth Jansen, Alexa Randall finds the strangest items: his one-year-old twins! Seth needs a temporary nanny; Alexa needs time for a one-on-one business pitch. So she says yes to an intimate stay on a lush Florida island—and yes to the man whose passion makes her question the choices she's made. The Nanny Bombshell by Michelle Celmer When Sierra Evans gave her twins up for adoption, she didn't expect tragedy to leave them in the care of their uncle, Coop Landon—a notorious playboy. Now Sierra will stop at nothing to protect her children—even if it means going undercover as the perfect nanny. But she doesn't expect the sizzling attraction that develops between her and Coop!
Download or read book A Farmer Boy Birthday written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999-09-22 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almanzo Wilder celebrates his birthday by breaking in a pair of calves and sledding on his new sled.
Download or read book Small town Boy Small town Girl written by Eric B. Fowler and published by SDSHS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milbank and Mitchell, dissimilar in size and separated by more than two hundred miles, have more in common than might appear at first glance. In the first half of the twentieth century towns such as Milbank and Mitchell formed hubs for commerce, social activities, and culture. Eric Fowler and Sheila Delaney looked at their communities from different viewpoints, but their childhood and young adult memories of South Dakota share common themes.
Download or read book Memory Boy written by Will Weaver and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ash is still falling from the sky two years after a series of globally devastating volcanic eruptions. Sunlight is as scarce as food, and cities are becoming increasingly violent as people loot and kill in order to maintain their existence. Sixteen-year-old Miles Newell knows that the only chance his family has of surviving is to escape from their Minneapolis suburban home to their cabin in the woods, As the Newells travel the highways on Miles' supreme invention, the Ali Princess, they have high hopes for safety and peace. But as they venture deeper into the wilderness, they begin to realize that it's not only city folk who have changed for the worse.
Download or read book Preserving the Family Farm written by Mary Neth and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1900 and 1940 American family farming gave way to what came to be called agribusiness. Government policies, consumer goods aimed at rural markets, and the increasing consolidation of agricultural industries all combined to bring about changes in farming strategies that had been in use since the frontier era. Because the Midwestern farm economy played an important part in the relations of family and community, new approaches to farm production meant new patterns in interpersonal relations as well. In Preserving the Family Farm Mary Neth focuses on these relations--of gender and community--to shed new light on the events of this crucial period. (source: 4e de couverture).
Download or read book Farmer Boy Days written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 1998-01 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.
