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More Stories From the Round Barn by Jackson, Jacqueline Dougan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>In this much anticipated companion volume to Stories from the Round Barn, Jacqueline Dougan Jackson continues her loving tribute to life on her family's Wisconsin dairy farm with the unusual round barn. Readers acquainted with Jackson's first collection will find the familiar cast of family members -- Grampa, Grama, Daddy, Mother, Jackie and her siblings, and Daddy's brother Trever and foster sister, Esther -- joined by others who have a part in the workings of the farm and the surrounding community. You will meet Miss Egan, who creates a stir as a woman barn hand; Charlie, a one-armed milkman who mysteriously vanishes; and Aunt Lillian, who almost single-handedly keeps the farm going through the 1918 flu epidemic.<p> Life on and near the farm is always a mixture of drama and comic relief. One cannot help but chuckle out loud when Jackson describes how an inspired Methodist cow sings at a Roman Catholic wedding or how a neighbor boy beats out Jackie in their school's World War II scrap metal drive by acing her tractor with his steam engine. With plenty of wit and compassion, Jackson recalls the hardships and satisfactions of farm life as lived according to the practical aims tha

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Author

Jackson, Jacqueline Dougan

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Published

2002

Language

EN

ISBN

9780810151352

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Biography

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14