Season of Life (eBook)

W. Scott Sowers (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
132 Seiten
Green Ivy (Verlag)
978-1-946043-24-5 (ISBN)

Infos

A Season of Life is based on the chronology of tending a crop of flue-cured tobacco in the sixties and seventies from the seedbed to the market. It is told from the perspective of a young man dealing with divorce, adjusting to a blended family, and confronting racism and prejudice. Sowers uses a mix of humor and personal anecdotes to engage the reader as he takes you through the process of farming tobacco. Those who grew up working in tobacco, and those interested in rural life and the period, will want to read A Season of Life.Five boys could be a basketball team, but in the case of the Sowers family, it made for the beginning of a labor force. They worked and played hard! Prepare to laugh and cry as you read.

Inhalt

DedicationIII
AcknowledgmentIV
Introduction1
Preparing the Beds15
Fixing the Land20
Setting out Tobacco26
Walking the Field32
Topping and Suckering39
Putting In46
Trucking48
Cropping55
Handing59
Looping62
Piling64
Hanging65
Mechanization68
Curing Tobacco76
Taking Out83
Getting Ready for Market89
Selling Tobacco97
Conclusion104
Farm Dictionary108

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.10.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Schlagworte: adjusting to a blended family • and confronting racism and prejudice • chronology of tending a crop of flue-cured tobacco in the sixties and seventies from the seedbed to the market • mix of humor and personal anecdotes • young man dealing with divorce
• ISBN-10: 1-946043-24-9 / 1946043249
• ISBN-13: 978-1-946043-24-5 / 9781946043245