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The Haymakers
Making hay has always been hard work, just about the hardest work on a farm. Spanning 150 years, The Haymakers tells a story of the labor and heartbreak suffered by five families struggling to make the hay that fed their livestock, a story not just about grass, alfalfa, and clover, but also about sweat and fears, toil and loss. The Haymakers is an epic -- 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. Hoffbeck also documents and preserves the commonplace methods of haymaking. 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 history -- how farm families survive, even persevere.
Carver County
Located just southwest of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Carver County was established by the Minnesota Territorial Legislature in 1855. The Minnesota and the South Fork of the Crow Rivers flow through this Big Woods county of Minnesota. Named after explorer Capt. Jonathan Carver and built on a predominantly agrarian culture, it boasts one of the richest farmlands in the state. Arrival of the railroads resulted in prosperous new industries and businesses and made it a popular resort destination. In the 1890s, the abundance of dairy farms and creameries earned it the nickname, the "Golden Buckle of the Dairy Belt." Many local farmers such as Andrew Peterson, Wendelin Grimm, and Henry Lyman became nationally recognized for their horticultural contributions and achievements. Hundreds of vintage photographs and postcards that depict everyday life in Carver County through the 1950s were collected and researched. This work is a tribute to the citizens of Carver County, whose pride in their rich history inspired this book.
The Unknown Swedes
Roger McKnight's translation of The Unknown Swedes is the first English-language book to reveal Moberg's views on emigration, America, and Sweden. In the 1950 edition of The Unknown Swedes, Moberg was guardedly optimistic about the United States. In 1968 Moberg, distraught at America's involvement in the Vietnam War, appended the chapter "Twenty Years Later" to the new edition of The Unknown Swedes. This essay attacks "vulgar patriotism" in America.
Victor Kugler
This book is based on Eda Shapiro's interviews with Kugler conducted in Toronto in 1969-73. Born in Bohemia, Kugler (1900-1981) was a business partner of Otto Frank in Amsterdam in 1933-42. When the Frank family went into hiding in 1942, Kugler continued to manage the business, and he materially supported the Franks in their Secret Annex. He appears in Anne Frank's diary as Mr. Kraler. After the Secret Annex was exposed and the Frank family was arrested by the Nazis in August 1944, Kugler was also arrested and sent to the Amersfoort internment camp. Later he was sent to the labor camps of Zwolle and Wageningen. He managed to escape from the latter camp shortly before the liberation. In 1955 Kugler settled in Canada. Mentions the symphonic and vocal composition "From the Diary of Anne Frank" by Czech-born Canadian composer Oskar Morawetz. Kugler was recognized by Yad Vashem as a Righteous Gentile, and received other awards by Canadian institutions for helping the Frank family and the others hiding in the Secret Annex.
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