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Author: Eric Duling Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc. ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 95
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Stories of a Small Town Farm Boy is a collection of humorous anecdotes illustrating some of the problems, solutions, and issues encountered by a boy growing up in a small town farming community. The isolation of growing up out in the country provided its own set of challenges for many young school kids of this locality. Even getting acclimated to the new routine of first grade proved to be a feat, but certain new cultural forces were at work to offer alternate areas of interest and entertainment. Television and radio were both still young but made a significant impact at a time when a transistor radio could be brought along, and music could be enjoyed while pulling weeds out in the fields. Growing up with parents who had both lived through the depression added a dimension of frugality which most young people today could never imagine. Many friends and neighbors of my parents’ generation actually grew up in German speaking households but were expected to attend public school where all lessons were presented in English. This book is designed to humorously present a number of significant cultural changes that have taken place in our society. Growing up with little money and a lot of responsibility made for a childhood which was diametrically opposed to current expectations. Much of what we dreamed about then is taken for granted today. Cultural changes are illustrated from the first grade through graduate school, a teaching career and retirement. Enjoy the trip.
Author: Eric Duling Publisher: Outskirts Press, Inc. ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
Stories of a Small Town Farm Boy is a collection of humorous anecdotes illustrating some of the problems, solutions, and issues encountered by a boy growing up in a small town farming community. The isolation of growing up out in the country provided its own set of challenges for many young school kids of this locality. Even getting acclimated to the new routine of first grade proved to be a feat, but certain new cultural forces were at work to offer alternate areas of interest and entertainment. Television and radio were both still young but made a significant impact at a time when a transistor radio could be brought along, and music could be enjoyed while pulling weeds out in the fields. Growing up with parents who had both lived through the depression added a dimension of frugality which most young people today could never imagine. Many friends and neighbors of my parents’ generation actually grew up in German speaking households but were expected to attend public school where all lessons were presented in English. This book is designed to humorously present a number of significant cultural changes that have taken place in our society. Growing up with little money and a lot of responsibility made for a childhood which was diametrically opposed to current expectations. Much of what we dreamed about then is taken for granted today. Cultural changes are illustrated from the first grade through graduate school, a teaching career and retirement. Enjoy the trip.
Author: Archie Lieberman Publisher: New York : H. N. Abrams ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 368
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"This is the true life story of a boy growing up to manhood on an Illinois farm ... told in remarkably evocative photographs and in the words of the boy and his family ... the Hammers ... Lieberman decided to make a photographic record of Bill Junior as he grew up, married, and had a son of his own ... Then, when the story was complete, he sat down with the Hammers and taped their reflections as they looked back over twenty years and ahead to the future ... 240 illustrations"--Dust jacket.
Author: Jim L Young Publisher: ISBN: 9781709493768 Category : Languages : en Pages : 282
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Jim Young, a teenage alcoholic, would learn that God had a different plan for his life as he led Jim down the right path after his accident. Jim was raised by elderly parents on a wheat/dairy farm near Vici, Oklahoma and then attended his first year of college only to drop out after 10 weeks. His life changed dramatically after he found employment on a corporate farm where he sustained a broken back from a round hay bale accident, when he was only 18-1/2 years old. Were it not for the love and encouragement of his fiancé, Kathy, Jim may well have given up on life itself, but through her persistence they went on to get married, build a life together and raise four beautiful children, yielding them ten beautiful grandchildren.
Author: Kayt Miller Publisher: ISBN: 9781951162184 Category : Languages : en Pages : 272
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Isabelle "Izzy" Harmon is home again. Literally. After landing her first teaching gig, Izzy has found herself sleeping in her old room on an ancient twin bed that squeaks whenever she moves. Sure, she loves Honeywell, Iowa but part of her wanted to move to civilization rather than return to her old life after graduating from college. Farm life is in her blood but so is the man who lives next door. It's too bad he never saw her as more than his best friend's little sister. It's true what they say... distance makes the heart grow fonder and four years away did nothing to quell the way Izzy's heart rate doubles whenever he's nearby. She hoped to get over it, but things don't always work out the way we hope. Nashville "Nash" Watson never left. His goal of playing baseball in the majors flew out the window the second he found out he was going to be a father. No regrets, though, because Nash figured he'd return to Honeywell, Iowa to farm his family's land. It was the only thing he knew for sure. Well, that and he's never falling for another woman again. Ever.
Author: Lois Lenski Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 1504022025 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 161
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An Iowa farm boy longs to quit school and join his dad working the land Dick comes home from school early and tells his mother he was sent home with a stomachache. She puts him to bed and tells him to get some sleep, but Dick can’t shut his eyes for a second. All his life he’s wanted to be a farmer—to quit school and join his father and brother driving tractors across their sprawling property—and today is his chance. His father is getting a 2nd tractor, and he’ll need Dick to drive it. Dick is certain that there’s nothing on the farm that he can’t handle. But when he gets a taste of farmer’s work, will he be so sure it’s the life for him? This charming novel offers a detailed look at life on a farm and a snapshot of a time when a boy could quit school to work in the fields.
Author: Phil Stong Publisher: eNet Press ISBN: 1618867725 Category : Languages : en Pages : 72
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As a nine-year old city boy travels from Des Moines, Iowa by train to visit his grandfather's farm in the early 1900s, he imagines how he will impress his cousins ― with stories of skyscrapers and trolley cars, automobiles and the Union Park Zoo, Ingersoll Amusement Park, and the Capitol ― things he thinks might dazzle farm boys. However, as his cousins and his grandfather introduce him to country life, the eyes that are dazzled become his own. The Iowa Kids 1910 series is a collection of three unforgettable stories -- humorously captured and simply told. Farm Boy, High Waters, No-Sitch the Hound.
Author: Laura Ingalls Wilder Publisher: ISBN: 9780590327879 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 388
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LITTLE HOUSE. BIG ADVENTURE: A fresh, photographic repackage of the original Little House books just in time for the series' 75th anniversary.
Author: Mitchell Henne Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Bob Shumway and his brothers, Kenny and Dick, collectively served in the military during WWII. All served with distinction, and all would go on to make their hometown of Leland, Illinois proud. At first, with Kenny serving in Europe and Dick serving in the Pacific, it remained for Bob to stay behind to help his father maintain the family farm. But, when his chance to serve came, Bob answered the call with no hesitation. On Veteran's Day, Bob speaks in schools to keep alive the memory of veterans who weren't as lucky as he was.
Author: Heather Williams Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 9780061242519 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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Little House Big Adventure Almanzo Wilder is going west! He and his family are moving all the way from their cozy farm in Malone, New York, to the bustling town of Spring Valley, Minnesota. Almanzo can’t wait to explore, but life in Spring Valley isn’t what he expected. The Wilders have to stay with relatives in a small, cramped house where Almanzo’s aunt Martha is cold and unfriendly. Almanzo longs for the freedom he had back home, and he especially misses his horse, Starlight. Even as he makes new friends at school and helps his father pick a plot of land for the family to settle on, Almanzo can’t help but wonder: Is Minnesota the right place for the Wilders? Or do they belong in New York? First introduced in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s classic Little House book Farmer Boy, Almanzo Wilder’s adventures continue in Farmer Boy Goes West.
Author: Eric Duling
Author: Eric Duling
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