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Birth, death, and a tractor : connecting an old farm to a new family /

Once there were no stone walls. For the fiercely idealistic Yankee homesteader, a small family farm was worth fighting for, and the rocky soil yielded far more than walls. Cleared and plowed, it fed a family and provided a living. Oxen gave way to horses, horses to tractors, and still the farm persi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Payson-Roopchand, Kelly (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Camden, Maine : Down East Books, [2015]
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505 0 |a Acknowledgments; author's note; One farm, six generations; Photospread; Part I: Fall; The story; The road; 1976: Enchantment; September 2009: The end of the road; 1808: Sebra and Lydia Crooker; October 2009: Harvest; October 2009: Love eternal; 1830: Julia and Ephraim Kennedy; November 2009: the gift of garlic; November 2009: tractor; November 2009: generations; Part II: winter; 1874: Francis and Calista; December 2009: farm boy; December 2009: let sleeping pigs lie; 1895: Edith and William Hewett; January 2010: here we stay; January 2010: thaw!; February 2010: change of light. 
505 8 |a February 2010: Early arrival Part III: Spring; 1916: Lloyd and Jane Hewett; March 2010: birth; March 2010: Spring; March 2010: River; 1935: Shirley Brown; April 2010: Family Farm; April 2010: need!; May 2010: Planting; May 2010: Passage; Part IV: Summer; June 2010: Rain; June 2010: The Wild; July 2010: Tractor; July 2010: Milestones; 1939: Don Hewett; August 2010: Barn; 1952: Don and Shirley Hewett; August 2010: Potatoes; August 2010: Land; epilogue; appendix a: further reading; "The Rhodora" by Ralph Waldo Emerson. 
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