Download During Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006 AudioBook Free
In telling the storyplot of five generations of her family and its farm in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her own research, historical perspective, and family lore as it extends to her from the days of her great-grandfather down to her nephew. The effect is a family group saga that is at once general and personal, historical, and classic. During Wind flow and Rainfall moves from the land's acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the 1927 Overflow, the Great Despair, and the drought of 1930 to the present day factors of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. The change of thick swamp and forest to today's commercial agriculture is the storyplot of 2 hundred acres did the trick by people sowing their destiny with perspiration, ingenuity, and chance. In the hoes of Bolsterli's great-grandfather Uriah's the perfect time to her nephew Casey's machinery capable of cultivating an acre in 5 minutes, During Wind flow and Rainfall poignantly portrays five generations of farmers determined by dreams of "a crop so good that the storage area than it can warm the drafty floor surfaces of adversity for the others of one's life." The e book is published by School of Arkansas Press.
