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Mapping the Farm - The Chronicle of a Family (Paperback)
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Mapping the Farm - The Chronicle of a Family (Paperback)
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List price R579
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Discovery Miles 5 300
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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. This book 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 labour, 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.
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