Uncle Will of Wildwood :: nineteenth century life in the Bluegrass /

This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, ""every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly ind...

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Hauptverfasser: McVey, Frances Jewell, 1889-1945 (VerfasserIn), Jewell, Robert Berry, 1896-1986 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Clark, Thomas D., Foose, Robert James (IllustratorIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2005.
Ausgabe:Paperback edition.
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Zusammenfassung:This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, ""every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain."" Wildwood was such a domain, ruled by the titular Uncle Will of this classic book. Everything at Wildwood revolved around Will Goddard, who was ""a cross between a hurricane and an electric fan."" The irrepressible Uncle Will, with his mad dashes to Harrodsburg for mowing-machine parts, his habit
Beschreibung:1 online resource : illustrations
ISBN:9780813158464
081315846X

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