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title: Eighty Acres : Elegy for a Family Farm author: Jager, Ronald. publisher: Beacon Press isbn10 | asin: 0807070459 print isbn13: 9780807070451 ebook isbn13: 9780807070284 language: English Farm life--Michigan--Missaukee County, Missaukee County (Mich.)--Social life and subject customs, Jager, Ronald--Childhood and youth, Missaukee County (Mich.)-- Biography. publication date: 1990 lcc: F572.M65J34 1990eb ddc: 977.4/66/009734 Farm life--Michigan--Missaukee County, Missaukee County (Mich.)--Social life and subject: 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 Page iii Eighty Acres Elegy for a Family Farm Ronald Jager With a Foreward by Donald Hall Page iv Disclaimer: Some images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the netLibrary eBook. 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 97 96 8 7 6 5 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 1 Landscape for Figures 2 9 Following Furrows 3 19 Figures on a Landscape 4 29 Fragments from the Chevrolet Era 5 39 Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience 6 46 Enlarging the Family 7 54 Pollywogs and Apples 8 65 The Hoekzemas are Coming 9 73 Good-Bye to Cream of Wheat and All That 10 82 Dividing Turf and Multiplying Hobbies 11 95 McBain, the Smallest City 12 105 Life with Livestock 13 117 War News 14 131 Matters of Taste, Matters of Fact 15 142 In Pursuit of Huckleberry Pie 16 153 What We Know of the Sparrow and the Crow 17 162 And Don't Lick the Hoarfrost Off the Pump Handle 18 169 Boys' Best Friends 19 177 Handwork: The Prose and Poetry of It 20 189 Working with Horses: Hay and Harrow 21 200 The Long Arm of John Calvin 22 211 High School: Mainly Extracurricular 23 221 Potatoes by the Book 24 230
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