Prosperity far distant : the journal of an Ohio farmer, 1933-1934 / by Charles M. Wiltse ; edited by Michael J. Birkner ; with a foreword by Gene Logsdon.
Material type: TextPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2012.Description: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:- text
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- online resource
- 9780821444092
- 0821444093
- Wiltse, Charles M. (Charles Maurice), 1907-1990
- Wiltse, Charles M. (Charles Maurice), 1907-1990
- Family farms -- Ohio
- Farm life -- Ohio
- Exploitations agricoles familiales -- Ohio
- Vie à la ferme -- Ohio
- TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science
- LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Diaries & Journals
- Family farms
- Farm life
- Ohio
- 633.092/2771 23
- S521.5.O3 W555 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Foreword; A Note on the Source; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Journal of an Ohio Farmer, 1933-1934; Afterword; Index.
Fresh from receiving a doctorate from Cornell University in 1933, but unable to find work, Charles M. Wiltse joined his parents on the small farm they had recently purchased in southern Ohio. There, the Wiltses scratched out a living selling eggs, corn, and other farm goods at prices that were barely enough to keep the farm intact. In wry and often affecting prose, Wiltse recorded a year in the life of this quintessentially American place during the Great Depression. He describes the family's daily routine, occasional light moments, and their ongoing frustrations, small and large-from a neig.
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