Once There Was A Farm (Univ Pr Of Virginia) Book

Nearly fifty years after she left the family farm of her childhood, Virginia Bell Dabney was compelled to write a memoir. She and her two sisters were raised on a Virginia farm during the hardscrabble years of the 1920s and 1930s. Her determined, independent mother managed to make a life for her famiy, despite hardships such as the Depression and a fire that destroyed their home. Although raised in a spare environment where leaky ceilings and cold winter nights were the norm, Dabney finds much to love, and to rejoice over, in her country upbringing: the wonder of hens laying eggs, the sensations asscoiated with milking a cow, her warm friendship with her mother's black maid. The remarkable clarity of her half-century-old memories and her simple, unaffected tone bring this country childhood unforgettably to life.

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A memoir recounting fond memories of life on a Virginia farm during the years of the 1920s and 1930s. The author reflects on the relationship to nature found at the farm, her relationship with her mother's black maid, and other topics. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.