Ridge Stories
Subtitle: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Published: Nov 07, 2019
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780870209239
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Ridge Stories: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless