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Black Swamp Farm (Paperback, New edition)
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Black Swamp Farm (Paperback, New edition)
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Howard E. Good was born on a farm in an area of the Maumee Valley
in northwestern Ohio known as the Black Swamp, a remnant of the
violence of the Ice Age and its glaciers, from which farmland had
to be wrested by long and arduous labor and where only the
stouthearted had any hope of success. In Black Swamp Farm, a
stirring memoir of his early days, Good recounts a now vanished way
of life. Good remembers playing shinny with clamp-on skates and a
tin can that had been stomped until it could whiz across the ice
given just the right combination of speed and accuracy. He tells of
the boom of the steam engine as it pulled the threshing machine to
a neighboring farm on a hot summer day, and of the excitement of
riding high on a wagonload of hay, gazing down on the horses'
broad, shining backs. He describes the springtime task of making
soap, the ritual of the shivaree, and the pleasure of the church
ice-cream social. He remembers well - and chronicles for the reader
- the unproclaimed achievements of men and women whose courage and
grueling toil brought them rich rewards.
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