Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... Dust Bowl Diaryvon Ann Marie Low
Keine Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. 2194 Dust Bowl Diary, by Ann Marie Low (read 11 Mar 1989) This book is centered on a diary which the author began in 1927, when she was 15 and a farm girl in North Dakota and which she quit keeping in 1937. She worked very hard and lived in grinding poverty. I found reading this book quite an experience--she did get thru Jamestown (ND) College and then taught school. She fended off marriage proposals, and never in the book says a good word about the man she married--who was courting her thru the last years she was keeping the diary. He came to the area as an employee having to do with a CCC camp in the area of the author's father's farm. The July 1976 National Geographic has a story on her uncle Grover's farm. Her brother joined the Marine Corps in 1938 and years later killed himself. One of the guys who joined with him told of his experiences in a book called The Dyess Story. This is quite a book, unpretentious as it holds itself out to be. (On 27 July 2008 I read The Dyess Story and wrote my reaction to it and posted said note on LibraryThing.) Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
History.
Nonfiction.
HTML: "Life in what the newspapers call 'the Dust Bowl' is becoming a gritty nightmare," Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that "gritty nightmare" as it was lived by one rural familyâ??and by millions of other Americans. The books opens in 1927â??"the last of the good years"â??when Ann Marie is a teenager living with her parents, brother, and sister on a stock farm in southeastern North Dakota. We follow her family and friends, descendants of homesteaders, through the next ten yearsâ??a time of searing summer heat and desiccated fields, dying livestock, dust to the tops of fence posts and prices at rock bottomâ??a time when whole communities lost their homes and livelihoods to mortgages and, hardest of all, to government recovery programs. We also see the coming to maturity of the author in the face of economic hardship, frustrating family circumstances, and the stifling restrictions that society then placed on young women. Ann Marie Low's diary, supplemented with reminiscences, offers a rich, circumstantial view of rural life a half century ago: planting and threshing before the prevalence of gasoline-powered engines, washing with rain water and ironing with sadirons, hauling coal on sleds over snow-clogged roads, going to end-of-school picnics and country dances, and hoarding the egg and cream money for college. Here, too, is an iconoclastic on-the-scene account of how a federal work project, the construction of a wildlife refuge, actually operated. Many readers will recognize parts of their own past in Ann Marie Low's story; for others it will serve as a compelling record of the Dust Bowl e Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
Aktuelle DiskussionenKeine
Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)978.4History and Geography North America Western U.S. North DakotaKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |
There are happy times here and there throughout too. Low talks of a close family, which included her grandmother and uncles nearby. Despite her trousers and independent ways, Ann Marie has several eager suitors and marriage proposals. She enjoys dating and socializing, going to dances and movies, but tells them all up front that she's not interested in marrying. But she finally does marry, after a few years of teaching, and after her parents have lost the ranch. Sadly, at least according to her narrative, she says nothing of love, although there are two children before her husband goes off to serve in WWII, as does her brother.
DUST BOWL DIARY is a fascinating peep into the past, which often called up stories told by my mother, who also got through college during the Depression years via scholarships and jobs. I also thought of another marvelous memoir called MY OWN TWO FEET, by children's author Beverly Cleary, from that same generation. Low's book is, I think, a minor classic of its kind. I'm glad I read it. Highly recommended.
- Tim Bazzett, author of the memoir, REED CITY BOY. ( )