Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl

Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl

by Nadine A. Block
Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl

Remembering Rosie: Memories of a Wisconsin Farm Girl

by Nadine A. Block

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Overview

Remembering Rosie is about Block's childhood on a Wisconsin dairy farm in the mid-twentieth century. Growing up on the homestead with her parents and siblings was often idyllic. Still, it never stopped Block from dreaming of making a different life for herself despite many obstacles she'd face in trying to leave the land her German great-grandparents settled in the 1880s.

Block and her siblings experienced long hours of tedious and dangerous work. Educational opportunities were limited, and the Ludwig children's one-room school had poorly trained teachers and few books. There was no expectation of girls going on to higher education. Block's observations of her depressive mother, the drudgery of farm life, and the short, cruel lives of farm animals were driving forces that made her take a path less followed. During a time when going against the grain was difficult, Block's restlessness and desire to see a world outside her sheltered community catapulted her into a life that the blue-eyed, blond-haired farm girl never could have imagined.



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Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781662430503
Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
Publication date: 06/22/2021
Pages: 220
Sales rank: 711,562
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

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