Farm girl : a Wisconsin memoir

Farm girl A Wisconsin memoir

Beuna Coburn Carlson, 1926-

Book - 2020

"When Bunny Coburn was growing up, neighbors came together in times of hardship. No matter the trouble, they faced it with determination, camaraderie, and resourcefulness. In the midst of the Great Depression, despite record-breaking heat and crop failure, growing up on the family farm was nevertheless filled with bucolic pleasures." -- back cover.

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Subjects
Carlson, Beuna Coburn, > 1926-
Farm life > Wisconsin > Pierce County.
Family farms > Wisconsin > Pierce County.
Depressions > 1929 > Wisconsin > Pierce County.
Pierce County (Wis.) > Biography.
Plum City (Wis.) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Genres
Autobiographies
Published
Madison, WI : The University of Wisconsin Press [2020]
Language
English
Main Author
Beuna Coburn Carlson, 1926- (author)
Physical Description
xiii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
ISBN
9780299327545
  • Preface: Why Have I Written?
  • Introduction
  • Part 1.
  • The Coburn Farm
  • The Honest Man
  • Mother's Quilt Blocks
  • The Coburn Kids
  • Bigger
  • The House
  • The White Pine
  • The Old Log House
  • Running Water
  • The Party Line Telephone
  • The Radio
  • The Phonograph
  • Washday
  • Ironing
  • We Didn't Have Much Money
  • Plum City
  • Leaving the Village
  • Our School
  • Learning to Read
  • My First (and Only) Doll
  • Uphill Both Ways
  • A Matter of Perspective
  • The Olsons
  • Ethnic Food
  • The Mystery of Charlie Stone
  • Old Joe George, the Peddler
  • The Hired Man
  • The Farm Animals
  • Jiggs
  • Part 2.
  • The Milking
  • Spring
  • The Leek Party
  • The Slippery Elm Tree
  • We Ate What Was Placed before Us
  • Summer
  • The Dry Years
  • We Did the Best We Could with What We Had
  • The Hottest Summer
  • The Coldest Winter
  • Haying
  • Harvest
  • Chickens
  • Sunday Dinner
  • Canada Thistles and Quackgrass
  • "Going to The Uncles! Going to The Uncles!"
  • Autumn
  • Autumn Gold
  • Wish Books
  • Butternuts and Maple Sugar Candy
  • Cutting Corn
  • Corn Husking
  • Winter
  • Starry Night
  • Dark Days of the 1930s
  • The Armistice Day Blizzard, 1940
  • Long Underwear
  • Using the Telephone
  • Christmas Shopping in 1932
  • Christmas Morning
  • Afterword: Last Visit Home
  • The Long Journey from There and Then to Here and Now
  • Appendix: About the Farm
  • Acknowledgments

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