The author's share of hardships - and heartthrobs - revealed in
Little Britches and Man of the Family continue when the family,
moved from Colorado to the East, send him to Maine to work on his
grandfather's farm. Thomas Gould, stubborn, crabby, cussed ugly,
maddens the boy with his constant scolding and criticisms but Uncle
Levi's well spaced visits persuade him to put up with the old man,
to humor him and to make him happy by helping with the run down
farm. Moving, scything, bees, screen doors, cows and calves,
machinery - Grampa's boy is always a "tarnal fool" in his handling
of them. Millie, the housekeeper, runs away, as does Ralph, and
Levi is hard put to get them both back. Rewards come however when a
new barn is planned, potatoes, corn and strawberries are added,
Yella Colt, the fractious old horse, is gentled and Grampa is proud
of his grandson's ability and ingenuity in tackling the man-sized
problems and challenges the old place presents. Quite a portrait of
a progenitor and of a youth, confronted by antagonistic age,
contriving a happy relationship in spite of all difficulties. The
same appeal of the earlier books for a wide audience. (Kirkus
Reviews)
The fatherless Moody family moved from Colorado to Medford,
Massachusetts, in 1912, when Ralph was entering his teens. "I tried
as hard as I could to be a city boy, but I didn't have very good
luck," he says at the beginning of The Fields of Home. "Just little
things that would have been all right in Colorado were always
getting me in trouble." So he is sent to his grandfather's farm in
Maine, where he finds a new set of adventures. Purchase the audio
edition.
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