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A Good Day’s Work: An Iowa Farm in the Great Depression

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Despite beautiful landscapes and bountiful harvests, farming is hard work and at all times has been. The Great Depression in rural The us, which began in the 1920s and lasted until World War II, made it still harder. At a time when tractors were replacing horses and the family farm used to be giving way to the large, single-crop enterprise, the struggle to continue to exist and modernize in a period of economic scarcity used to be especially sharp. In A Good Day’s Work, Dwight Hoover, who grew up on an Iowa farm in this era, recalls the events of day by day life on a single farm, offering detailed descriptions of day by day work in every of the year’s four seasons. A Good Day’s Work is an interesting if grim reminder of what it used to be like to be a child with adult responsibilities. Mr. Hoover’s ordinary memoir recalls the rough edges in addition to the happy moments of rural life. It is an honest re-creation of a world that used to be vanishing.

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