Memory of Trees: A Daughter's Story of a Family Farm

by Gayla Marty

Book Overview

Memory of Trees is a multigenerational story of Gayla Marty's family farm near Rush City, Minnesota. Cleared from woodlands by her great-grandfather Jacob in the 1880s, the farm passed to her father, Gordon, and his brother, Gaylon. Hewing to a conservative Swedish Baptist faith, the two brothers worked the farm, raising their families in side-by-side houses. As the years go by, the families grow--and slowly grow apart. Uncle Gaylon, more doctrinaire...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081666689X
• ISBN13: 9780816666898
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"