Ronald Jager - Eighty Acres (The Condord Library Series)
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Elegy for a Family FarmForeword by Donald Hall
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Farm life--Michigan--Missaukee County, Missaukee County (Mich.)--Social life and customs, Jager, Ronald--Childhood and youth, Missaukee County (Mich.)--Biography.
publication date
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1990
lcc
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F572.M65J34 1990eb
ddc
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977.4/66/009734
subject
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Farm life--Michigan--Missaukee County, Missaukee County (Mich.)--Social life and customs, Jager, Ronald--Childhood and youth, Missaukee County (Mich.)--Biography.
Page i
Eighty Acres
Page ii
OTHER VOLUMES IN THE CONCORD LIBRARY SERIES EDITOR: JOHN ELDER
Tarka the Otter Henry Williamson
The Insect World of J. Henri Fabre Edwin Way Teale, editor
A Land Jacquetta Hawkes
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Eighty Acres
Elegy for a Family Farm
Ronald Jager
With a Foreward by Donald Hall
Page iv
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Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2800
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1990 by Ronald Jager Foreword 1990 by Beacon Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
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Text design by Christine Leonard Raquepaw
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Jager, Ronald. Eighty acres : elegy for a family farm / Ronald Jager. p. cm. ISBN 0-8070-7044-0 (cloth) ISBN 0-8070-7045-9 (paper) 1. Farm lifeMichiganMissaukee County. 2. Missaukee County (Mich.)Social life and customs. 3. Jager, Ronald Childhood and youth. 4. Missaukee County (Mich.)Biogra phy. I. Title. II. Title: 80 acres. F572.M65J34 1990 977.4'66'009734dc20 90-52583 CIP
Page v
To the memory of Jess Jager (19011987) and Kate Schepers Jager (19021983)
And for my wife, Grace, who first suggested it and always encouraged it and finally named it
Page vii
Contents
Foreword by Donald Hall
ix
Preface
xiii
1 Landscape for Figures
1
2 Following Furrows
9
3 Figures on a Landscape
19
4 Fragments from the Chevrolet Era
29
5 Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
39
6 Enlarging the Family
46
7 Pollywogs and Apples
54
8 The Hoekzemas are Coming
65
9 Good-Bye to Cream of Wheat and All That
73
10 Dividing Turf and Multiplying Hobbies
82
11 McBain, the Smallest City
95
12 Life with Livestock
105
13 War News
117
14 Matters of Taste, Matters of Fact
131
15 In Pursuit of Huckleberry Pie
142
16 What We Know of the Sparrow and the Crow
153
17 And Don't Lick the Hoarfrost Off the Pump Handle
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