Ridge stories : herding hens, powdering pigs, and other recollections from a boyhood in the Driftless /

"Ridge Stories is a memoir of a boy born in 1944 and raised in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin on a small dairy farm on Pleasant Ridge. In a collection of interrelated stories of farm, family, neighbors, church, school, and food, Gary Jones gets real about life in rural Wisconsin, from amusin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jones, Gary, 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2019]
Temas:
Jones, Gary, > 1944- > Childhood and youth.
Dairy farms > Wisconsin > Richland County.
Country life > Wisconsin > Richland County.
Fermes laitières > Wisconsin > Richland.
Childhood and youth of a person
Country life
Dairy farms
Manners and customs
Richland County (Wis.) > Social life and customs.
Richland County (Wis.) > Biography.
Driftless Area > Social life and customs.
Driftless Area > Biography.
Driftless Area > Mœurs et coutumes.
Driftless Area > Biographies.
United States > Driftless Area
Wisconsin > Richland County
Biographies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"Ridge Stories is a memoir of a boy born in 1944 and raised in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin on a small dairy farm on Pleasant Ridge. In a collection of interrelated stories of farm, family, neighbors, church, school, and food, Gary Jones gets real about life in rural Wisconsin, from amusing anecdotes about oversized overalls and baths before indoor plumbing, to more serious reflections about the challenges of growing up with a depressed mother to realizing the shortcomings of his homogenous upbringing"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9780870209246
0870209248

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