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

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

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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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Country	USA
Binding	Paperback
EAN	9780252080944
Edition	1st
ISBN	0252080947
Label	University of Illinois Press
Manufacturer	University of Illinois Press
MPN	illustrations
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	152
PartNumber	illustrations
PublicationDate	2015-05-04
Publisher	University of Illinois Press
Studio	University of Illinois Press
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

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