Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered - Hardcover

Hill, Lewis

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9780871064257: Fetched-Up Yankee: A New England Boyhood Remembered

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ISBN 10: 0871064251 ISBN 13: 9780871064257

Publisher: Globe Pequot Pr, 1990

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The author recounts his Vermont childhood, depicts rural life during the thirties, and describes the impact of vacationing New Yorkers and World War II on the community

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About the Author:

Lewis Hill and his wife Nancy are the acclaimed authors of fifteen best selling books. They operate a plant nursery in Greensboro, Vermont where the Hill Family has lived since 1791. Some of their books are Yankee Summer, Secrets of Plant Propagation, Successful Perennial Gardening, Pruning Made Easy, Bulbs, and Daylilies.

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A Vermont farm in the 1930s where "the 20th century was late in arriving" is the backdrop for this boy's-eye view of his "fetching up" (i.e., the way he was raised). In the one-room schoolhouse where memorization was the learning style, or avoiding an attack rooster on the 15-mile walk to get there, Hill, a freelance writer, offers pithy, humorous scenes of a perhaps gentler time. Amusing anecdotes include an account of "rubbering," or listening in on the newfangled party line. Couched in Yankee cadences, these vivid recollections preserve the hardships as well as the pleasures of growing up in rural America during the Depression.
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