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Mapping the Farm - (Minnesota) by John Hildebrand (Paperback)
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- An evocative history of four generations of a Minnesota farm family and a chronicle of their way of life.
- Author(s): John Hildebrand
- 252 Pages
- Non-Classifiable
- Series Name: Minnesota
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An evocative history of four generations of a Minnesota farm family and a chronicle of their way of life.Book Synopsis
An evocative history of four generations of a Minnesota farm family and a chronicle of their way of life. To some, the fields and farms of the Upper Midwest all look the same, but to the people who have struggled to raise families and make a living from the soil, each farm is a "small kingdom" with a rich and often troubled history. In Mapping the Farm, John Hildebrand, whom the New Yorker magazine praised for his "skill of mind and craft," focuses on the O'Neills, the family of his wife Sharon, and their 240 acres near Rochester, Minnesota. When William O'Neill began raising dairy cows in Minnesota in 1880, America was a nation of farmers. A little over a hundred years later, William's grandson Ed is too old and ill to continue farming. The farm is being chopped into subdivisions, an interstate has cut off access to the river, and changing technology and the tightening market have made small farms a thing of the past. Ed's children and grandchildren gather to try to find a way to keep the farm in the family. In this absorbing and hauntingly beautiful book, Hildebrand tells the story of four generations of farming O'Neills and, in doing so, tells a quintessentially American story of land and labor, memory and loss--and one family's struggle to keep their dream alive. From boom times to bust, the bloody farm strikes of the Great Depression to the bittersweet optimism of a county fair, Hildebrand weaves a narrative that is at once an elegy for a vanishing way of life and a celebration of the tenacious and deeply held American values that have made today's way of life possible.Dimensions (Overall): 8.41 Inches (H) x 5.69 Inches (W) x .59 Inches (D)
Weight: .7 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 252
Genre: Non-Classifiable
Series Title: Minnesota
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Format: Paperback
Author: John Hildebrand
Language: English
Street Date: October 15, 2001
TCIN: 82938523
UPC: 9780873514149
Item Number (DPCI): 247-07-6497
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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