Description |
1 online resource (244 pages) |
Contents |
Preface; The Witness of Combines; Windbreak; Straightening the Hammermill; Chickens; My Mother's Silence; The Conversation of the Roses; My Grandmother's Bones; Old Waters; Rafting; Rocks, Roots, and Weeds; How Joel and I Almost Became Mountain Men; Night Grove; Dragline; The Eye, Taken to Eternity; Working; Slow Flies; Frozen Silage; Stuck; A Constellation of Cockleburs; Black Snow; Birds Against the Glass; The Night Trucks; Selling the Parts; Going Back |
Summary |
When Kent Meyerss father died of a stroke, there was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. In a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his fathers death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Meyers, Kent
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SUBJECT |
Meyers, Kent fast |
Subject |
Country life -- Minnesota -- Morgan Region
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Country life
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Manners and customs
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SUBJECT |
Morgan Region (Minn.) -- Biography
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Morgan Region (Minn.) -- Social life and customs
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Subject |
Minnesota -- Morgan Region
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780816688906 |
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0816688907 |
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