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"O seu único livro publicado, Através dos Campos, ( ... ) não é só um trabalho de etnografia - detalhado e cheio de cor. Com o ser um breviário perfeito da economia agrária do Alto Alentejo, guarda também nas suas páginas alguns dos mais belos e cristalinos pedaços de prosa portuguesa nos últimos trinta anos. Livro único, livro claro, sadio, o livro de José da Silva Picão há-de ser arrolado entre os melhores padrões da nossa literatura contemporânea".

Farm life. --- Agricultural laborers.

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Nancy Warner's photographs and David Stark's interviews and reflections provide fresh perspective on the history and culture of a distinctly American phenomenon. Continuing in the tradition of Solomon D. Butcher, who photographed some of the first midwestern settlers in the nineteenth century, and Wright Morris, who combined photographic and verbal accounts of farmers' lives in the twentieth century, Stark and Warner explore a way of life that continues to adapt in the face of wrenching change.This book pairs images of abandoned farm places with the plain-spoken recollections of t

Farm life --- Nebraska --- Rural conditions

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"Planted by the Signs brings us the contemporary Appalachian poetry of Misty Skaggs. With a knack for pointed personal and social observation, she tells the stories of generations of women who have learned to navigate a harsh world with a little help from the Farmers' Almanac and the stars: women who know how to plant by the signs"--

Women farmers --- Farm life --- Appalachian Region

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Farm life --- Rural life --- Country life --- Lambert family

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From 1870 until after World War I, reformers led an effort to place children from orphanages, asylums, and children's homes with farming families. The farmers received free labour in return for providing room and board. Reformers, meanwhile, believed children learned lessons in family life, citizenry, and work habits that institutions simply could not provide. Drawing on institution records, correspondence from children and placement families, and state reports, Megan Birk scrutinizes how the farm system developed - and how the children involved may have become some of America's last indentured labourers.

Foster children --- Foster home care --- Rural families --- Farm life --- History