The Farmers Boy

Clifton Johnson (1865–1940) was a portrait painter who combined words, photographs, and drawings to paint a picture of whatever happened to be the object of his attention; and in this book, the object of his attention was a typical 19th-century New England farm boy. With 63 illustrations and over 27,000 words, Mr. Johnson follows this typical boy for one year--divided into four seasons--and describes with inerrant accuracy and uncanny insight what the boy looks like, how he acts, what he th...