By William Downs Jr.

Through dozens of in-depth interviews representing all sections of the nation, farm households bear in mind their most sensible instances, their worst occasions, and day by day studies akin to chores, washing, bathing, outfits making, treatment, domestic treatments, religious existence, courtship and marriage, and faculty stories. Their tales demonstrate how traditional women and men, often dwelling in abject poverty, continued cataclysmic average mess ups and fiscal cave in with awesome braveness, religion, resourcefulness, and an excellent feel of humor.

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