Ridge Stories: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless
"Ridge Stories is a memoir of a boy born in 1944 and raised in the Driftless Region of Wisconsin on a small dairy farm on Pleasant Ridge. In a collection of interrelated stories of farm, family, neighbors, church, school, and food, Gary Jones gets real about life in rural Wisconsin, from amusing anecdotes about oversized overalls and baths before indoor plumbing, to more serious reflections about the challenges of growing up with a depressed mother to realizing the shortcomings of his homogenous upbringing"--.
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Book Information
Publisher: | Wisconsin Historical Society Press |
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Publish Date: | 11/07/2019 |
Pages: | 208 |
ISBN-13: | 9780870209239 |
ISBN-10: | 087020923X |
Language: | English |
Full Description
Straight talk from up on the farm Raised on a small dairy farm in the Driftless Area in the mid-twentieth century, Gary Jones gets real about his rural roots. In this collection of interrelated stories, Jones writes with plainspoken warmth and irreverence about farm, family, and folks on the ridge. Readers will meet Gramp Jones, whose oversized overalls saved him from losing a chunk of flesh to an irate sow; the young one-room-school teacher who helped the kids make sled jumps at recess; Charlotte, the lawn-mowing sheep who once ended up in the living room; Victor the pig-cutter, who learned his trade from folk tradition rather than vet school; and other colorful characters of the ridge. Often humorous and occasionally touching, Jones's essays paint a vivid picture that will entertain city and country folk alike.