Download or read book Childhood on the Farm written by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era. As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine childhood as a time reserved for education and play. She draws upon a wealth of primary sources—not only memoirs and diaries but also census data—to create a vivid portrait of midwestern farm childhood from the early post–Civil War period through the Progressive Era growing pains of industrialization. Those personal accounts resurrect the essential experience of children’s work, play, education, family relations, and coming of age from their own perspectives. Steering a middle path between the myth of wholesome farm life and the reality of work that was often extremely dangerous, Riney-Kehrberg shows both the best and the worst that a rural upbringing had to offer midwestern youth a time before mechanization forever changed the rural scene and radio broke the spell of isolation. Down on the farm, truancy was not uncommon and chores were shared across genders. Yet farm children managed to indulge in inventive play—much of it homemade—to supplement store-bought toys and to get through the long spells between circuses. Filled with insightful personal stories and graced with dozens of highly evocative period photos, Childhood on the Farm is the only general history of midwestern farm children to use narratives written by the children themselves, giving a fresh voice to these forgotten years. Theirs was a way of life that was disappearing even as they lived it, and this book offers new insight into why, even if many rural youngsters became urban and suburban adults, they always maintained some affection for the farm.
Download or read book Farm on Nippersink Creek written by Jim May and published by august house. This book was released on 1994 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates stories of growing up in the rural farming communities of Illinois, spanning four generations of a family
Download or read book Once There Was a Farm written by Virginia Bell Dabney and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of life on a backwoods Virginia farm in the first half of the 20th century. Virginia Bell Dabney recalls the hardships of the Depression, the fire that destroyed her home and how her mother struggled to make a life for her family, but also finds much to rejoice in her country childhood.
Download or read book Always Plenty to Do written by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg and published by Windword Books for Young Reade. This book was released on 2011 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of childhood on America's farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; reveals what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt--and how they worked, played, and learned. Includes historical photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Senses on the Farm written by Shelley Rotner and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes things you can see, hear, smell, taste, and touch on a farm.
Download or read book Childhood on the Farm written by George Kisner and published by . This book was released on 2006* with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Day on the Farm written by Nancy Fielding Hulick and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goes through the day of a farm family and all the chores they do.
Download or read book The Elliott Homestead written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm to Keiki written by Tiana Kamen and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (This is the shorter 124 page "Home/Family Edition" which excludes lesson plans). This book provides families, teachers and community members with the basic tools and inspiration to connect children with nature and show them how to grow, prepare and eat healthy foods. Readers will find step-by-step lesson plans/curricula, hundreds of activity ideas, plant guides and nutritionist-approved, Hawai'i-based recipes. The book is divided into two main sections: Meet the Plants and Recipes. The Meet the Plants section is used to teach keiki about specific fruits, vegetables and herbs (includes 19 plants or plant families). Each page features a specific plant or plant family with a labeled photograph. These pages will increase readers knowledge about plants and give you ideas about how to use them in the classroom, kitchen and garden. The book includes 37 "'Ai Pono Recipes". These recipes are for adults to make with children, or children to make on their own. Make these recipes for taste tests, classroom/home cooking, snacks and meals. They are all nourishing foods that feature Hawai'i grown and raised ingredients. The book encourages adults to engage children in the entire cooking process: learning about the ingredients, gardening, harvesting, washing, cooking, eating and cleaning. These recipes are designed to keep children, families and teachers healthy, so readers are encouraged to make and eat these recipes often. This book is beautiful and features real foods and plants from Hawai'i.
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson s Farm Book written by Thomas Jefferson and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Very Small Farm written by William Paul Winchester and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Thoreau’s Walden, William Paul Winchester offers a chronicle of everyday life on Southwind, his farm of twenty acres. As a subsistence farmer, he builds his own house and barn, puts in a garden and an orchard, acquires a milk cow, and takes up beekeeping. In these pages, we hear his thoughts on such subjects as the weather, seasonal changes, machinery repair, the flora and fauna of the region, and vegetarian cooking. His philosophy, like his lifestyle, is simple, yet profoundly wise.
Download or read book The Farm Book written by Jan Pfloog and published by Western Publishing Company. This book was released on 1964-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Farm Book written and illustrated by Jan Pfloog.
Download or read book My Farm written by Alison Lester and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1999-03-29 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An affectionate and funny recollection of a memorable year on an Australian farm. This unusual picture book gives a vivid glimpse of life on the land.
Download or read book Down on the Funny Farm written by Patrick E. King and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A farmer thinks he is getting a bargain when he buys a farm for one dollar, until he finds that all the animals are mixed up about what they are supposed to do.
Download or read book Childhood Memories of Life on the Farm and More written by David Lee Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Going to Sleep on the Farm written by Wendy Cheyette Lewison and published by Puffin Books. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A father describes for his son how each animal on the farm goes to sleep.
Download or read book The Farm written by Gail Saunders-Smith and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs describe places on the farm and what farmers do on farms including planting and harvesting crops, and raising animals and livestock.
