Will Penney, Minnie Penney Eighty-Eight Years on a Maine Farm

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Chronicling nearly nine decades of life and work on a Maine farm, this memoir by Will and Minnie Penney presents a wonderful look back at rural life before and during the Depression, in the heady post-war years, and late, as family farms began to give way to larger industrial farms. The Penneys adapted to change by adjusting the way they farmed, focusing on fewer crops, adding dairy cows to their stock, even harvesting trees from the woodlot and cutting them into lumberwith the farms lumber mill. Through it all the Penneys toughed it out and thrived on their slice of Maine heaven.The Penney Farm in Belgrade, Maine, remained in the family for more than one hundred and fifty years. Eighty-Eighth Years on a Maine Farm is part Will Penneys personal memoir and part Minnies diary. Together, they show readers just what everyday life on a busy Maine farm was like.