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Scoblic, Barbara Hoffbeck, author.
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Lost without the river : a memoir / Barbara Hoffbeck Scoblic.
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Scoblic, Barbara Hoffbeck, author.
Berkeley, CA : She Writes Press, 2019.
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273 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps ; 22 cm
Contents:
Part I Portrait Of A Farm -- A Family Photograph p. 3 -- Farm at the Bottom of the Hill p. 6 -- Always a Straggle p. 21 -- Part II Bridge, Barn, And Silo -- Biggest Snapper Ever p. 35 -- Lightening the Load p. 40 -- Working Together p. 42 -- An Eye on the River p. 48 -- River p. 50 -- Next Morning p. 57 -- Same Chore Day After Day p. 59 -- Always There p. 62 -- A Summer Afternoon p. 64 -- Falling Down p. 67 -- Part III Faith And Punishment -- Opera in the Kitchen p. 71 -- Spare Room p. 73 -- Seen and Not Heard p. 75 -- Never Meant to Be a Farmer p. 78 -- Other Bridges p. 85 -- Calling the Cows Home p. 87 -- Looking for Color p. 89 -- A Matter of Faith p. 93 -- Returning to Church p. 96 -- A Wider World p. 99 -- Trying to Fit In p. 105 -- Part IV Mother's Turn -- Men Told the Stones p. 111 -- First Drive Out p. 115 -- Three Days in June p. 117 -- A Cup of Tea p. 121 -- Midnight Companions p. 127 -- Empty Crib p. 131 -- White Dress p. 134 -- Part V We Begin To Leave -- One by One p. 137 -- Packing Up p. 141 -- Up the Whetstone River, Slowly p. 145 -- Social Worker p. 149 -- Night the Barn Burned p. 153 -- An Unforeseen Pleasure p. 163 -- Dirt p. 165 -- Part VI Returning Again And Again -- Mourning Dove p. 171 -- Another Goodbye p. 173 -- Final Flood p. 176 -- Gate p. 187 -- Wild Plum Cobbler p. 190 -- Lost p. 194 -- Annual Pilgrimage p. 195 -- Carting Gooseberries and Chandeliers p. 204 -- Final Details p. 208 -- Traveling with Bob p. 213 -- Thinking About Beans p. 226 -- An Early Resolve p. 230 -- Foreigner p. 237 -- Cribbage p. 241 -- Roots and Leaves p. 242 -- Mass of the Angels p. 247 -- No Record p. 252 -- Dirt, Revisited p. 255 -- Returing Home p. 256.
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A memoir of the author's wrestling against parental expectations, the strictures of the church, and the limits of a society dominated by men as she grows up in a family struggling against Depression-era hardship and personal tragedy to carve out a small farm in rural South Dakota.
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2019
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