The witness of combines / Kent Meyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Kent.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country life--Minnesota--Morgan Region.

Country life.

Morgan Region (Minn.)--Biography.

Morgan Region (Minn.).

Morgan Region (Minn.)--Social life and customs.

Meyers, Kent.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Kent Meyers was sixteen years old, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. Here, in a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his father's death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest. Meyers tells the story of growing up on the farm, from the joys of playing in the hayloft as a boy to the steady pattern of chores. He describes the power of winter prairie winds, the excitement of building a fort in the woods, and the self-respect that comes from canning 120 quarts of tomatoes grown on your own

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8166-8890-7

OCLC:

476096240