A Family Farm: Life on an Illinois Dairy Farm

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During the past century two-thirds of all Circle of relatives-operated farms in The united states disappeared. A Circle of relatives Farm is the personal story of one such farm from 1916 to 1991, told from the perspectives of four generations. The story begins with the creator’s grandparents, whose primitive way of farming in northern Illinois, described in evocative detail, used to be closer to the nineteenth century than to the twentieth. Their daughter, the creator’s mother, loses her hopes for a scholarly life throughout the Great Depression, and—though bookish and unsuited to farm life—returns to the farm with her husband, who describes in his own words his youthful years on a poor Illinois farm and as a rural schoolteacher. The Circle of relatives attempts to modernize the old farm and introduce up-to-date agricultural techniques, but their sons, the creator and his brother, leave the farm after high school and unwittingly doom it to failure. It’s the creator’s children who provide a brighter point of view, delighting in visits to their grandparents’ farm whilst they grow acutely aware of its decline. A Circle of relatives Farm ends with an elegiac description of death and of the winter auction at which the accumulation of seventy-five years of hard work and frugal living is sold to the highest bidder.
            Richly illustrated with art work, photographs, and documents, and set within the context of current trends in agricultural economics and rural life, A Circle of relatives Farm offers an intimate and historical point of view on a now vanished way of living.


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