The Story of an Old Farm
Author : Andrew D. Mellick
Publisher :
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1889
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Andrew D. Mellick
Publisher :
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 38,69 MB
Release : 1889
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Felicia Law
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 20,96 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 9780706413915
The new owner of a run down farm repairs the farmhouse, barn, and equipment, cares for the sheep, chickens, and cows, and looks after the gardens and orchards.
Author : C. A. Stephens
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,85 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Children
ISBN : 9781558533349
Stories written in the late 19th century about six young children, orphaned by the Civil War, who come to live with their grandparents in rural Maine. 8-11 yrs.
Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,53 MB
Release : 2017-06-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870208314
When Jerry Apps was growing up on a Wisconsin farm in the 1930s and 1940s, times were tough. Yet most folks living on farms had plenty to eat. Preparing food from scratch was just the way things were done, and people knew what was in their food and where it came from. Delicious meals were at the center of every family and social affair, whether it be a threshing-day dinner with all the neighbors, the end-of-school-year picnic, or just a hearty supper after chores were done. As Jerry writes, "For me food will always be associated with times of good eating, storytelling, laughter, and good-hearted fun." Inspired by the dishes made by his mother, Eleanor, and featuring recipes found in her well-worn recipe box, Jerry and his daughter, Susan, take us on a culinary tour of life on the farm during the Depression and World War II. Seasoned with personal stories, menus, and family photos, Old Farm Country Cookbook recalls a time when electricity had not yet found its way to the farm, when making sauerkraut was a family endeavor, and when homemade ice cream tasted better than anything you could buy at the store.
Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2013-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 0870205420
One of the Midwest's best-loved authors tells the story of his land, from the last great glacier that dug out its valleys and formed its hills, to his own family's 40 year relationship with the beloved farm they call Roshara. In this quiet but epic tale, Apps describes the Native Americans who lived on the land for hundreds of years, tapping the maple trees and fishing the streams and lakes, as well as the first white settlers who tilled its sandy acres, plowing the native grasses that grew taller than their teams of oxen. For all their work, the farm proved tough to tame. Hardscrabble farming methods and hard luck often brought failure. "From land that provided only a marginal living for its early owners, this place we call Roshara has provided much for my family and me," writes Apps. He and his wife and their children have cared for the farm not so much to make a living as to enhance their lives. Apps chronicles the family's efforts — always earnest, if sometimes ill-advised — to restore an old granary into living space, develop a productive vegetable garden, manage the woodlots, reestablish a prairie, and enjoy nature's sounds and silences. Breathtakingly beautiful color photographs by Apps's son, Steve (a professional photographer), highlight the ever-changing beauty of the land in every season and hint at the spiritual gifts that are the true bounty this family reaps from Roshara. Central to Apps' work is his belief that the land is something to cherish and revere. Like Aldo Leopold before him, Apps sounds an inspirational call to readers to preserve wild and rural places, leaving them in better condition than we found them for future generations.
Author : Roger Welsch
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release :
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781610605489
An entertaining and educational mirror into the past, filled with heartwarming stories, essays, photographs and artwork recounting life on the family farm.
Author : Kenneth Edward Marshall
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1580463932
Manhood Enslaved reconstructs the lives of three male captives to bring greater intellectual and historical clarity to the muted lives of enslaved peoples in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century central New Jersey, where blacks were held in bondage for nearly two centuries. The book contributes to an evolving body of historical scholarship arguing that the lives of bondpeople in America were shaped not only by the powerful forces of racial oppression, but also by their own notions of gender. The book uses previously understudied, white-authored, nineteenth-century literature about central New Jersey slaves as a point of departure. Reading beyond the racist assumptions of the authors, it contends that the precarious day-to-day existence of the three protagonists -- Yombo Melick, Dick Melick, and Quamino Buccau (Smock) -- provides revealing evidence about the various elements of "slave manhood" that gave real meaning to their oppressed lives. Kenneth E. Marshall is Assistant Professor of History at the State University of New York at Oswego.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1336 pages
File Size : 48,1 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Mellick Andrew D.
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 34,91 MB
Release : 1901
Category :
ISBN : 9780243745951
Author : Margaret Somerville
Publisher : Aboriginal Studies Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0855757116
Singing the Coast offers readers a rare opportunity to visit the heart of Gumbaynggirr culture and trace the shaping of place and identity in coastal Australia.