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During Wind and Rain - The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta 1848-2006 (Paperback)
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During Wind and Rain - The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta 1848-2006 (Paperback)
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Loot Price R343
Discovery Miles 3 430
You Save R116 (25%)
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In telling the story of five generations of her family and its farm
in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her
own research, historical perspective, and family lore as it reaches
her from the days of her great-grandfather down to her nephew. The
result is a family saga that is at once universal and personal,
historical and timeless. During Wind and Rain moves from the land's
acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the
1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the
modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and
irrigation. The transformation of dense swamp and forest to today's
commercial agriculture is the story of two hundred acres worked by
people sowing their fate with sweat, ingenuity, and luck. From the
hoes of Bolsterli's great-grandfather Uriah's time to her nephew
Casey's machinery capable of cultivating an acre in five minutes,
During Wind and Rain poignantly portrays five generations of
farmers motivated by dreams of "a crop so good that the memory of
it can warm the drafty floors of adversity for the rest of one's
life."
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