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Once There Was a Farm|Virginia Bell Dabney

Once There Was a Farm : A Country Childhood Remembered

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Nearly fifty years after she left the family farm of her childhood, Virginia Bell Dabney was compelled to write a memoir. She and her two sisters were raised on a Virginia farm during the hardscrabble years of the 1920s and 1930s. Her determined, independent mother managed to make a life for her famiy, despite hardships such as the Depression and a fire that destroyed their home. Although raised in a spare environment where leaky ceilings and cold winter nights were the norm, Dabney finds much to love, and to rejoice over, in her country upbringing: the wonder of hens laying eggs, the sensations asscoiated with milking a cow, her warm friendship with her mother's black maid. The remarkable clarity of her half-century-old memories and her simple, unaffected tone bring this country childhood unforgettably to life.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780813918471
  • ISBN-10: 0813918472
  • Publisher: University of Virginia Press
  • Publish Date: October 1998
  • Dimensions: 8.55 x 5.55 x 0.84 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.81 pounds
  • Page Count: 273

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