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Founding Farms : Portraits of Five Massachusetts Family Farms
author
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Sherer, Stan.
publisher
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University of Massachusetts Press
isbn10 | asin
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087023790X
print isbn13
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9780870237904
ebook isbn13
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9780585217574
language
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English
subject
Family farms--Massachusetts--Pictorial works.
publication date
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1993
lcc
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HD1476.U6M47 1993eb
ddc
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338.1/6
subject
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Family farms--Massachusetts--Pictorial works.
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Founding Farms
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Founding Farms
Portraits of Five Massachusetts Family Farms
Photographs by Stan Sherer Profiles by Michael E. C. Gery
The University of Massachusetts Press AMHERST
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Copyright 1993 by The University of Massachusetts Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America LC 91-39833 ISBN 0-87023-790-X (cloth); 791-8(pbk.) Designed by Jack Harrison Set in Adobe Garamond Printed and bound by Excelsior Printing Company
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sherer, Stan, 1947 Founding farms: portraits of five Massachusetts family farms / photographs by Stan Sherer; profiles by Michael E.C. Gery. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87023-790-X (alk. paper). ISBN 0-87023-791-8 (pbk. alk.paper) 1. Family farmsMassachusettsPictoral works. I. Title. HD1476.U6M47 1992 91-39833 338. I'6dc20
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data are available.
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Preface
ix
1. Appleton Farm, Ipswich
3
2. Arrowhead Farm, Newburyport
29
3. Barker Farm, North Andover
57
4. Luther Belden Farm, North Hatfield
79
5. Scott Farm, Hawley
109
Sources
133
About the Photographs
134
About the Authors
134
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Foreword
Decade by decade, the United States counts fewer farms, and the number in Massachusetts has been shrinking rapidly. Farm life is becoming a matter of history books and dead metaphors in the language of urbanites. Yet some Massachusetts farms continue to function as both homes and productive economic units. The factories in the field that provide the agricultural surplus supporting industrialized society are not typical of the Commonwealth. Here the pattern is one of mixed farming with considerable reliance on customers in neighboring urban areas.
The "Founding Farms" in this book have been in the same families for more than two, in most cases more than three, centuries. Those who live on them presumably have a sense of place which counteracts some of American society's stress on the importance of time. Family legends are more memorable because they can be tied to an exact spot in a yard or field, a building, or a tool preserved even though no longer used. Both Stan Sherer's photographs and Michael Gery's interviews reveal the interworkings of place and time. Here are pictures and words that invite us into other lives. We have here a chance to learn more about life's possibilities, especially human relationships with
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geographical space and human ways of accepting the past without being imprisoned by it.
These photographs show Sherer's skill in capturing "a presence." But within them is evidence of time's passage. A rusting storage tank, the wrinkles in a face, the accumulation of papers in a desk's pigeonholes, or the presence of earlier photographs on a tableall these remind the viewer of change. The farm landscapes we admire represent the work of generations in clearing stones, building barns, cutting some trees, planting others. We are not looking at wilderness, but at the results of human impulses toward order. The very contours of the land have been changed by human design, sometimes within living memory.
It is good to see a newly made patchwork quilt and its maker, reassuring evidence that a craft created by American women is still practiced. A great-grandmother's tenderness recalls generations of care for descendants. The orchard ladder represents skilled craftsmanship, not mass production. But the presence on a farmer's desk of an electronic calculator warns against sentimentality and reminds us of technological advances and economic necessities.
Among the variant mythologies of American individualism, the frontier yeoman farmer has held a prominent place. These surviving farms of Massachusetts, however, reveal other sorts of Americans and other sorts of farmers. Within these families, at least some in each generation did not head west or for the city, choosing instead to stay put. But Michael Gery's interviews help puncture a too-ready counter-stereotype. A professional career in a city helped preserve one of these ancestral farms. The manager of that farm has come east from Wisconsin to Massachusetts to pursue his chosen calling. One active farmer lived in California for a time and then returned to the Pioneer Valley. Many of the men and women pictured here hold or have held "a job in town."
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