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Title: Memories - Farm Days, Farm Ways
Author: Joe Brown
Category: Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
Price: $15.00
Language: English
Size: 5.5 x 8.5
Number of Pages: 363
ISBN Number: 0-9769106-9-1
Publication Date: May 2005
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About this Book: |
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What was a life like on a small tobacco farm during the 1940’s and 1950’s? How did the close knit Brown family survive in the pre-electricity days? Running water had a different meaning. Who was running the water? How did this farm family keep milk, butter and other perishables from spoiling? Who trained Mom and Dad’s work force starting at an early age to become a highly productive team? Life was simple and all work was hard. What values were learned during childhood on the Brown farm? Read about the impression of a small farm boy who grew up dreaming big. What was the “Packhouse Punch”?
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About the Author: |
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The author is a semi retired businessman, who was born on a sharecropper’s farm and at an early age moved to live on their own farm. He was educated in a small rural school. He played football, basketball and baseball whenever farm work permitted. His dream was to be a major league baseball player. He served in the US Army and attended Guilford College on the GI bill while working full time. He owned and operated his own manufacturing business for 40 years. He has been active in church and has been a volunteer coach for many years. He is married and has 4 children and 4 grandchildren.
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Who set the haystack on fire? How was tobacco raised before modern day equipment? How could anyone raise seven children on a farm? Did we ever have any fun? Who got struck by lightning? Who told the most exciting stories in the whole world? Why did we spend the nights at the tobacco barn? How about another fire, the birthday fire? What happened at the most memorable Brown Reunion? Who was Farmer Brown? How special was Christmas on the farm? Who gave Joe a black eye? My how Joe dreams. What did Elmer battle to graduate on time? Who invented the pea sheller? How good were Grandma’s biscuits? What is seining? Who was Sandy? Joe thought Dad was working him to death. He was only getting Joe ready for the challenges of the future.
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Order/Contact Info: |
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Joe Brown
Haystack Press
1042 Bona Court
Kernersville, NC 27284
Phone 336-996-7752
Price $ 15.00
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