The witness of combines / Kent Meyers.
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The witness of combines / Kent Meyers.
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Publication Information:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2022]
©1998
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 229 pages)
General Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Contents:
Prefac -- The witness of combines -- Windbreak -- Straightening the Hammermill -- Chickns -- 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 -- Snow flies -- Frozen silage -- Stuck -- A constellation of cockleburs -- Black snow -- Birds against the glass -- The night trucks -- Selling the parts -- Going back.
Summary:
A memoir recounting the author's experiences growing up on a farm in southern Minnesota. Discusses how he took control of the daily farming activities after his father died of a stroke and how he eventually sold the family farm.
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