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Growing
up Farm Relive the Author's Memories of Farm Life in the 1920s and 1930s. Grace Kaiser proves that at eighty you can go home again, and it is a trip well worth taking! In caring words, Grace relives seasons, kith and kin, men we no longer see, the daily activities and monthly traditions. Young readers will enjoy a look at the activities of children seventy years ago. Older readers will relive their past in the descriptions of Monday clothes washing, spring planting in the fields and gardens, summer harvesting and canning, and Sunday dinners featuring food grown by the family. Retreat to a simpler time of country schools, summer festivals, Fourth of July and Christmas celebrations, and neighbors cooperating in village affairs. Inside this soft-cover book of 336 pages, readers will enjoy pictures of farm life, recipes from the Helsel kitchen, and descriptions of trips to nearby towns and cities in vintage touring cars. A book definitely worth owning yourself or giving as a valued gift! |
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Here is an opportunity to learn more about Doylestown and Chalfont areas in the earlier years of the 20th century, follow Grace's life and the interesting lives of the Helsel family at Crestview Farm, learn of the daily activities, work on the farm, picking berries, and much more. Horace Swartz, B.S. Engineering, Classmate, Doylestown H.S. Dr. Grace Kaiser writes and proves that at eighty you can go home again in every phase of the memory. In caring words, Grace relives seasons, kith and kin, men we no longer see—the milk man, the bread man, the ice man, the fish man, the coal man and her favorite men—Grandpop and Father. She recalls food mysteries and how to make them: chow chow, corn pone, dandelion salad, mulberry pie, scrapple, shoofly pie, snow ice cream! Every day of the week had its chores; every month had its seasonal recipes: every Sunday meant home-sewn dresses. Church was down the nearby hill. Louise De Wald, Native of Pennsylvania, author of seven books This
5 1/2 x 8 1/2, 336 pages, photographs and recipes, soft-coverbook
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