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Title:

Heartland portrait : stories from the rural Midwest / edited by Robert Wolf ; illustrations by Bonnie Koloc.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publisher:

Free River Press,

Copyright Date:

c2009

Description:

276 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Farm life--Middle West--History--20th century.
Farm life--Middle West--History--19th century.
Rural families--United States.
Country life--United States.
United States--Social life and customs--20th century.
Short stories, American.
United States--Rural conditions.

Other Authors:

Wolf, Robert, 1944-
Koloc, Bonnie.

Contents:

Postville: Iowa's entry into the post-modern. Simple times / Lyle Ernst -- Icons & emblems. Memories / Richard Sandry -- Threshing / Richard Sandry -- Horses vs. tractors / Barb Leppert -- The coming of machinery / Barb Leppert -- The tornado / Francis Cole -- R.E.C. for the country / Francis Cole -- Aprons / Barb Mitchell -- The silo / Dan Byrnes. Farm crisis. Farming / Bob Leppert -- High interest dilemma / Barb Leppert -- The day of reckoning / Dorothy Sandry -- Getting started / Esther Welsh -- Choices / Esther Welsh -- Storm clouds / Richard Sandry -- Forced auctions / Greg Welsh -- Farm crisis / Greg Welsh -- Farming or agribusiness? / John Prestemon -- Vertical integration / Don and Mary Klauke -- Diary / David Mitchell -- Daniel in the lion's den / Father Norm White. Land stewardship. Soil / Bruce Carlson -- Image of farmers / Esther Welsh -- Corporations, chemicals, and health / Bruce Carlson -- The day the Welsh family farm turned around / Bill Welsh -- The way back / Greg Welsh. Local foods. Harmony Valley farm / Linda Halley -- The farmer's daughter / Lynn Braem Tschumper -- Dog Hollow farm / Anne Tedeschi -- Creating a sustainable farm, one blade of grass at a time / Virginia Goetke -- Some organic experiences in Northeast Iowa / Wayne Wangsness -- Back to the land that kept me so connected / Monique Hooker -- Afterword. The Jeffersonian ideal ; Organics and beyond. Villages & towns. Iowa. Coming home (Lansing) / Laura Sitari -- A southtown tale (Lansing) / Karen Galema -- Thirty-three years at the Lansing Company (Lansing) / Rosemary Knopf -- Dutch's place (Lansing) / Shirley Darling -- Once there were many, but now there are few (Waukon) / Ken Krambeer -- Last barber in town (Waukon) / Ken Krambeer -- Where do you want to be? (Fort Atkinson) / Anonymous -- Running into relatives (Decorah) / David Faldet -- Saturday night in Clermont (Clermont) / Khaki Nelson -- Brick City ice cream (Clermont) / Doris Martin -- Saturday night (Clermont) / LaVerne Swenson -- Party line (Clermont) / Lois Amundson -- Burkhard Riegel (Clermont) / Mike Finnegan -- Moving from the city to Clermont, Iowa (Clermont) / Jennifer Olufson -- A changing neighborhood (Clermont) / Jerry Kelly. Minnesota. "Cyclone" Johnson (Lanesboro) / Orval H. Amdahl -- Martin Jack stories (Lanesboro) / Gordon Gullikson -- Donald (Lanesboro) / Doris Grindland -- The CCC in Lanesboro (Lanesboro) / Marie Aakre -- Curfew bell ringing (Lanesboro) / Don Ward -- Have you heard? (Lanesboro) / Don Ward -- Commentary: Rural towns. The river. River towns / Lyle Ernst -- River traditions / John Verdon -- "George Burns" / Randy Robertson -- The midnight watch change / Captain Jack Libbey -- A trip with Dad / Emily Libbey -- Towboat days / Captain Norbert Strong -- Muskrat trapping and pollywogging / Loretta and Norbert Strong -- The stump fields / Bruce Carlson -- In search of perfect ice / Bruce Carlson -- Lansing Fish Market / John Verdon -- Night seining / Robert Teff -- Winter seine haul / John Verdon -- The storm of the century / Norman J. Delphey -- Night of fright on the Mississippi / Kyle Fitzgerald -- Mike valley / Lyle Ernst -- Commentary: The river. Afterword. Postville: Iowa's entry into the post-modern.

Series:

American mosaic series

ISBN:

1878781308 (pbk.)
9781878781307 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)601585505

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

YKPE532 -- Anamosa Library & Learning Center (Anamosa)

FYPI314 -- Dubuque County Library - Asbury Branch (Asbury)

TOPB062 -- Blairstown Public Library (Blairstown)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

VEPB334 -- Clermont Public Library (Clermont)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

SIPD314 -- James Kennedy Public Library (Dyersville)

VFPB334 -- Elgin Public Library (Elgin)

FJPC224 -- Elkader Public Library (Elkader)

VGPC334 -- Fayette Community Library (Fayette)

UPAX334 -- Upper Iowa University - Henderson-Wilder Library (Fayette)

FLPB224 -- Garnavillo Public Library (Garnavillo)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

UGPF911 -- Indianola Public Library (Indianola)

VSPC034 -- Meehan Memorial Lansing Public Library (Lansing)

ZXPC675 -- Fisher-Whiting Memorial Library (Mapleton)

VZPB964 -- Ossian Public Library (Ossian)

GZPE631 -- Pella Public Library (Pella)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

PZPA094 -- Plainfield Public Library (Plainfield)

FQPC224 -- Strawberry Point Public Library (Strawberry Point) — 808.88 Wol

KLPC566 -- West Point Public Library (West Point)

VMPC334 -- West Union Community Library (West Union)