Barnflower: A Rhode Island Farm Memoir

an unlikely celebrity. He defied e

xpectations and challenged long-established

notions of what constituted a champion

Holstein. But his fame was dependent on one

man’s stubborn insistence that the animal

was, indeed, special. Carla Panciera spent

years with her father and his famous herd

traveling from county fair to county fair,

and answering the same questions: “Is that Aldo Panciera?” and “Are you Aldo’s daughter?” This memoir is based on the real man an...