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Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm (The Condord Library Series)
Eighty Acres Elegy for a Family Farm - The Condord Library Series
Author: Ronald Jager
In this richly detailed memoir, the author evokes life in rural Michigan fifty years ago when he was young, inexperienced, and unaware of the blessings of being a boy on a farm. Jager tells of his rural childhood with warmth, intimacy, and an affectionate irony. We enter the spirit of a Dutch family farm, with horses and outhouses, pregnancies...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780807070451
ISBN-10: 0807070459
Publication Date: 9/1/1992
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4.6 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: Beacon Press
Book Type: Paperback
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reviewed Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm (The Condord Library Series) on + 18 more book reviews
The author of Eighty Acres grew up on a farm similar to my parents & grandparents, as children of Dutch-American immigrants. Very revealing look at life growing up on a family farm in the upper-midwest (Northern Michigan). Good descriptions of a wide variety of aspects of farm life.
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Interesting memoir of farming and family life.


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