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Author
Publisher
Country Scribe Pub
Publication Date
c2003
Physical Desc
185 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays, which originally appeared as newspaper columns, focusing on ventures away from home; from travels to places as far-flung as London, Paris, Summerhaven, Arizona, New York City, or the skies of Greenland, down to seemingly simple trips to town for a meeting or a half-gallon of milk.
Author
Publisher
Country Scribe Publishing
Publication Date
2015
Physical Desc
163 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
A collection of engaging stories about Eric Bergeson's lifetime spent amongst a small town's aging population. Even as a young child, Eric found himself in friendships with people in their golden years. In mid-life, he realized that his own perspective on life, death and relationships had been powerfully shaped by these unique friendships. Poignant, funny, yet gently instructional, Treasury is masterfully told in Eric's signature entertaining style...
Author
Publisher
Ridgetop Ranch
Publication Date
2009
Physical Desc
143 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of favorite essays in the voice of Emily, a down-to-earth farm-wife who is dedicated to her family and the life they share, but who also knows her own min and refuses to put up with too much "hogwosh" from husband Ed, the animals, the neighbors, or anyone else she encounters throughout her days.
10) Barn boot blues
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Publication Date
c2011
Physical Desc
142 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her parents swap urban life in Minneapolis for rural life on a farm 100 miles away, twelve-year-old Taylor feels as if she is living on another planet.
11) My younger days
Author
Publisher
printed by Richards Publishing
Publication Date
2018
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Memories of Norris Syverson's life in rural McIntosh Minnesota.
Author
Publisher
Whispering Petals Press
Publication Date
2018
Physical Desc
358 pages : photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Pawns, a memoir with almost 100 photographs, resurrects a decade of family dysfunction on an isolated farm in northern Minnesota. Musty letters, documents, and sixty-year-old photo negatives conjured memories as Affield pored over them. In a grainy negative beneath the magnifying glass, Affield saw his mother as the beautiful, mentally ill young woman transplanted in 1949 from her cosmopolitan New York roots. She stands beside the lilac that the author...
Author
Publisher
Self published
Publication Date
2023
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
Ohferdumb is a compilation of stories and pictures about growing up in a large family on a farm in northern Minnesota. "Ohferdumb" is a term that our mother affectionately used when one of the seven kids did something dumb, which was not uncommon. Our father died at the young age of 40 from an unexpected heart attack. My mom, at age 36, had to take over the day-to-day running of the farm while raising three girls and four boys. Growing up in a rural...
Author
Publisher
Whispering Petals Press
Publication Date
2017
Physical Desc
126 pages : photographs ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
WWII veteran Herman Affield returns to his bleak farm in northern Minnesota and begins a four year search for a wife through lonely hearts club publications. Follow his search as the years tick by. Barbara, alias, Linda, a New York pianist, finally answers his letters and moves to the farm with four young children in 1949. In Part II of this first book, explore hundreds of advertisements and the key of names for "The Exchange," the 1945 lonely hearts...
Author
Publisher
Acadia Pub
Publication Date
©2001
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"With nearly 100 vintage images and personal stories, [this book] relives the era [1930-1970] of this major agricultural revolution and takes the reader on a journey that will define a time of momentous change."