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The Farm at Holstein Dip: An Iowa Boyhood (Bur Oak Book) by Carroll L Engelhardt; ProQuest (Firm) is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Carroll Engelhardt's parents grew up in homes without electricity on farms without tractors and began farming in the same way. As a farm boy in northeastern Iowa, he thought that history happened only to important people in earlier times and more exotic places. After decades of teaching, he at last perceived that history happens to us all, and he began writing this book. Set within the thoughtfully presented contexts of the technological revolution in American agriculture, the Second World War, the Cold War, and the emerging culture of affluence, The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving coming-of-age memoir and an educational glimpse into rural and small-town life of the 1940s and 1950s. Engelhardt writes about growing up in a spacious farmhouse where life was centered in the kitchen and frugality dictated that every purchase be weighed carefully. His chores grew up with him: he fed chickens and gathered eggs at age six, rode a horse on the hayfork at nine or ten, milked cows by hand at eleven, and hired out to other farmers to load bales in the field and work in the haymow at fifteen. The simple pleasures and predictable routines of a Saturday night at the movies in nearby Elka

Author

Carroll L Engelhardt; ProQuest (Firm)

Publisher

University of Iowa Press; University Of Iowa Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781609381356

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography