Ira's Farm: Growing Up on a Self-Sustaining Farm in the 1930's and 1940's

Kirjan Ira's Farm: Growing Up on a Self-Sustaining Farm in the 1930's and 1940's (2018) on kirjoittanut Virginia Johnson. Kirjan kieli on englanti, ja sen on kustantanut Virginia Johnson. Kirja on laajuudeltaan 102 sivua ja se on nidottu.

A WWI veteran with a young family, Ira bought a sixty-acre farm in the rural community of Harlan Michigan just ninety days before the October 1929 stock market crash and its ensuing financial crisis. He fashioned a living with a team of horses and a never-give-up work ethic on land his wife often called "sand banks" when a harvest failed. This memoir covers a thirty-year span of farming through the eyes of Ira's daughter who went from a bare-footed carefree girl to a "hired hand" when her older brother joined the Navy in 1942. She drove horses, hauled hay, picked up stones, bagged milkweed pods and a myriad of other tasks. For senior citizens it may bring back childhood memories. Young readers will perhaps experience a tinge of fantasy or a scene from TV's Walton family. An easy read about rural farm life in the thirties and forties