| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Attachment : light : elm -- Things of the spirit : maple -- Two barns : oak -- The word : birch -- Houses : spruce -- Separation : husbands and wives : apple -- Memory of trees : fig -- The way out : pine -- Wake : cedar -- Epilogue : what remains |
| Summary |
Memory of Trees is a multigenerational story of Gayla Marty's family farm near Rush City, Minnesota. Cleared from woodlands by her great-grandfather Jacob in the 1880s, the farm passed to her father, Gordon, and his brother, Gaylon. Hewing to a conservative Swedish Baptist faith, the two brothers worked the farm, raising their families in side-by-side houses. As the years go by, the families growand slowly grow apart. Uncle Gaylon, more doctrinaire in his faith, rails against the permissiveness of Gayla's parents. Financial tensions arise as well when the farm economy weakens and none of the |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Marty family.
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Marty, Gayla -- Homes and haunts
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Marty, Gayla -- Childhood and youth
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Marty family |
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Marty, Gayla |
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Marty, Gayla. |
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Farmers -- United States -- Biography
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Farm life -- Minnesota -- Pine County -- History -- 20th century
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Family farms -- Minnesota -- Pine County -- History -- 20th century
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Journalists -- United States -- Biography
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Trees -- Minnesota -- Pine County
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Family farms
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Farm life
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Farmers
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Homes
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Journalists
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Trees
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Minnesota -- Pine County
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United States
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Electronic books
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Biographies
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History
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Christian fiction.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2009045646 |
| ISBN |
9780816673797 |
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0816673799 |
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