Farm Boy: Growing up Progressive in Rural America - Softcover

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In this charming memoir, Dan recounts his boyhood years growing up on a farm with roots going back to grandparents who immigrated from Ireland to homestead in northeastern Montana. It begins when Dan’s dad steps down the gangplank of RMS Cameronia onto Ellis Island as a six-year old. Dan carries forward his father’s adventures as one of five children raised by remarkable parents on a family farm. Here, everyday farm chores of milking, egg-picking, branding, driving tractor and battling Montana blizzards turn into unexpected adventures laced with humor. The family’s role in the historic struggle by farmers against monopoly powers to bring electricity and telephones to rural America molded Dan into a progressive, even as he grew up in a conservative corner of rural America.

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