The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families (Minnesota)

The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families (Minnesota)
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Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award!

The Haymakers is an epicâ€”the history of man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the land they tended. But The Haymakersis also an elegyâ€”to a way of life fast disappearing from our landscape. In the most heartfelt essays, Hoffbeck chronicles his own family's struggle to hold onto their family farm and his personal struggle in deciding to leave farming for another way of life.

Hoffbeck also seeks to document and preserve the commonplace methods of haymaking, information about haying that might otherwise be lost to posterity. He describes the tools and the methods of haymaking as well as the relentless demands of the farm. Using diaries, agricultural guidebooks and personal interviews, the folkways of cutting, raking, and harvesting hay have been recorded in these chapters. In the end, this book is not so much about agricultural history as it is about family history, personal historyâ€”how farm families survive, even persevere.
Country USA
Brand Minnesota Historical Society Press
Manufacturer Minnesota Historical Society Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 0873513959_used
Color Green
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780873513951
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	Minnesota Historical Society Press
Manufacturer	Minnesota Historical Society Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	0873513959_used
Color	Green
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780873513951
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families (Minnesota)

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