The Crops Look Good : News from a Midwestern Family Farm /

When Margaret Williamson left her family's rural Wisconsin farm to work in Minneapolis in 1923, her mother, Olava, wrote regularly with updates about daily activities: laundry, bread baking, plowing, planting, and harvesting the crops. Sometimes she enclosed a note from seven-year-old Helen, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Luca, Sara, 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Rural families.
Farms, Small.
Farm life.
Family farms.
Country life.
Petites exploitations agricoles > Wisconsin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Exploitations agricoles familiales > Wisconsin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Familles rurales > Wisconsin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie à la ferme > Midwest (États-Unis) > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vie à la ferme > Wisconsin > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Farms, Small > Wisconsin > History > 20th century.
Family farms > Wisconsin > History > 20th century.
Rural families > Wisconsin > History > 20th century.
Country life > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Country life > Wisconsin > History > 20th century.
Farm life > Middle West > History > 20th century.
Farm life > Wisconsin > History > 20th century.
Wisconsin.
Middle West.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • 1923-24 directly as a stone
  • 1925-29 bread and butter
  • 1930-35 what one has to do
  • 1936-39 a school in patience
  • 1940-42 a thousand thoughts
  • 1943-44 when sorrows come
  • 1945-46 the beautiful country
  • 1947-49 back where I belong
  • 1950-55 love made visible
  • Epilogue.

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