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Once There Was a Farm by Virginia Bell Dabnay (1991) (L74d3) Ballantine Books PB
A Country Childhood Remembered
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 family, 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 associated 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.
ISBN: 034536502X / 9780345365026
Format: Paperback
Pages: 273
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket:
Copyright: 1990 by Virginia Bell Dabnay
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Edition: April 1991
DEFECTS: (Please look at photos carefully)
pages have some yellowing
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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 family, 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 associated 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.
ISBN: 034536502X / 9780345365026
Format: Paperback
Pages: 273
Book Condition: Good
Dust Jacket:
Copyright: 1990 by Virginia Bell Dabnay
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Edition: April 1991
DEFECTS: (Please look at photos carefully)
pages have some yellowing
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