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  • The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey: Memories from the Farm of My Youth

    The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey by Guebert, Alan; Foxwell, Mary Grace;

    Memories from the Farm of My Youth

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1st Edition
    • Publisher University of Illinois Press
    • Date of Publication 4 May 2015
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9780252080944
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages152 pages
    • Size 229x152x13 mm
    • Weight 254 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 24 black and white photographs
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    Long description:

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    ""The river was in God's hands, the cows in ours."" So passed the days on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland. In this collection, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell recall Guebert's years on the land working as part of that all-consuming collaborative effort known as the family farm.

    Here are Guebert's tireless parents, measuring the year not in months but in seasons for sewing, haying, and doing the books; Jackie the farmhand, needing ninety minutes to do sixty minutes' work and cussing the entire time; Hoard the dairyman, sore fingers wrapped in electrician's tape, sharing wine and the prettiest Christmas tree ever; and the unflappable Uncle Honey, spreading mayhem via mistreated machinery, flipped wagons, and the careless union of diesel fuel and fire.

    Guebert's heartfelt and humorous reminiscences depict the hard labor and simple pleasures to be found in ennobling work, and show that in life, as in farming, Uncle Honey had it right with his succinct philosophy for overcoming adversity: ""the secret's not to stop.""

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