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The Land of Milk and Uncle Honey: Memories from the Farm of My Youth

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“The river was once in God’s hands, the cows in ours.” So passed the days on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on 700 acres of wealthy Illinois bottomland. In this collection, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell recall Guebert’s years on the land working as a part of that every one-consuming collaborative effort referred to as the circle of relatives farm.

Here are Guebert’s tireless parents, measuring the year not in months but in seasons for sewing, haying, and doing the books; Jackie the farmhand, needing ninety minutes to do sixty minutes’ work and cussing all the time; Hoard the dairyman, sore fingers wrapped in electrician’s tape, sharing wine and the prettiest Christmas tree ever; and the unflappable Uncle Honey, spreading mayhem by way of mistreated machinery, flipped wagons, and the careless union of diesel fuel and fire.

Guebert’s heartfelt and humorous reminiscences depict the hard labor and simple pleasures to be found in ennobling work, and show that in life, as in farming, Uncle Honey had it right with his succinct philosophy for overcoming adversity: “the name of the game’s to not stop.”

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