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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison :
Wisconsin Historical Society Press,
[2019]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- If the overalls fit
- Rubber duckies
- Edna
- All things Indian
- Pleasant Ridge School
- Reading, writing, and sledding
- A cold lunch program
- Do ghosts eat cake?
- Ida
- Putting powder on a pig
- Free-range chickens
- Charlotte
- Defense
- Hike to Steeple Rock
- In Gramp's shoes
- Farm forecasts
- The grasshopper
- Milking time
- Making hay while the sun shines
- Threshing on the ridge
- Getting up wood
- Down on the farm, TV style
- Memorial Day on Pleasant Ridge
- When angels wore bedsheets
- Minnie and Mae
- The church band
- The Catholics
- Hills and valleys
- Snowbound
- Mixed nuts
- Within walking distance
- The good life
- Steve Bryant, the storyteller
- Victor, the pig-cutter
- The pressure cooker
- Silas Breese
- Cursing like a farmwife
- The longs and the shorts of it
- Ain't that pretty
- Foods of the Ridge
- Good gardens
- Uncle Jake
- Raspberry queen of the Ridge
- A life of pie
- Crazy quilter
- Searching for my father
- Burying my father.