Essays on Life Beyond the Beltway (i.e., actual) from rural anywhere (actually, western Virginia); sometimes funny, always pithy observations on the ways we might wish to live draw from the folk who already (and have always) live that way.

View from Rappahannock II

History

McCarthy, Eugene J.

Americas

Lone Oak Press

Ben Myer's Tales

LEEDS, MORTON

Adventurer in reference to Joseph Renshaw Brown, includes careers as soldier, fur trader, entrepreneur, lumberman, founder of cities, politician, speculator, legislator, editor, Indian agent, Minnesota promoter, opportunist and optimist. He was there when Minnesota was the roaring frontier. He often found himself 200 miles from the law, a newspaper on the road. He was praised, denounced, investigated, applauded, threatened and shot at. This book is a chronicle of life, free enterprise and politics on the frontier a lively, dangerous and different frontier. This story is not only about hard-won successes, whose monuments still stand, but of hard-lost failures that left little trace.

Joseph R. Brown Adventurer on the Minnesota Frontier 1820-1849 (Joseph Renshaw Brown)

Biographies & Memoirs

Goodman, Robert

Goodman, Nancy

Historical

This book offers a selection of 100 poems written by Eugene J McCarthy. His love for America has blessed us with political hope, and as a poet, his fine poetry provides a nourishment for our imaginations; poetry s critical role in culture. His experience as a U.S. Senator and a presidential candidate, along with other experiences are expressed well with the poems he shares here.

Eugene J. McCarthy: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

As the storm clouds of farm crisis loom on the horizon fueled by a precipitous drop in farm income, it seems the forecast couldn't be worse. Yet today's farmers need only look to their roots for models of strength reflected in the 80-year history of the Farmers Union in Minnesota and recounted in a new book from Lone Oak Press, More Than A Farm Organization: Farmers Union In Minnesota, by Don Muhm, the distinguished agricultural journalist and farm editor of the Des Moines Register for over 30 years. The 400-page history chronicles the birth, growth, challenges, and victories of the Farmers Union in Minnesota and the people who built it. It's the story of farmers from across the state who recognized the power of cooperation, education, and legislation to strengthen and protect the family farm. From its roots in Southwestern Minnesota's Jackson County in 1918 to the present, More Than A Farm Organization shows how the men and women of the Farmers Union, in the words of Jackson County local charter member Charley F. Wendel, "...bent their shoulders to the tasks." The book tracks the young organization's rise "...amid clouds of uncertainty" in the 20's "...to challenge the marketing structure;" the role it played in the "Farm Holiday" movement of the Great Depression and rural electrification; the life of Farmers Union Grain Terminal Association giant M. W. Thatcher, about whom Hubert H. Humphrey eulogized, "He didn't visit Presidents; they visited him...;" the formation of the giant supply co-op, CENEX; the years of phenomenal growth during the administration of the "Great Gully Cooperator," Minnesota Farmer's Union President Edwin Christianson; "The Communist Smear" campaign; the advent of corporate farming, the 1980's farm crisis, and other challenges faced by Minnesota and National Farmers Union President Cy Carpenter; the turbulent term of U.S. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, the first to come from the ranks of farmers since Roosevelt; the Farmers Union in Minnesota today; and much more. More Than A Farm Organization is a veritable compendium of "who's who" among Farmers Union members from Minnesota who rose through the ranks to become some of the great leaders of our state and nation-people like U.S. Agriculture Secretary and Congressman Bob Bergland, Congresswoman Coya Knutson, Minnesota Lt. Governor and Congressman Alec Olson, Minnesota Governors Elmer Benson and Floyd Olson, National Farmers Union Presidents Cy Carpenter and Leland Swenson, Minnesota Secretary of State Art Hanson, Minnesota House Majority Leader and Minnesota Farmers Union President Willis Eken, Minnesota Senator and Minnesota Farmers Union President Dave Frederickson, World Farm Congress delegate and Special National Farmers Union Award-winner F. B. Daniel, and others too numerous to mention. The book describes the three main thrusts of the Farmers Union in Minnesota, as embodied by its triangular logo: Cooperation, Legislation, and Education. From the advent of farmer owned local cooperatives in the early 20s, to the development of cooperative giants like the Farmers Union Central Exchange (CENEX) and Harvest States Cooperatives; from Federal enactment of the Agricultural Adjustment and Farm Credit Acts of 1933, to passage of the Minnesota Family Farm Security Act in 1976; and from publication of the Farmer's Union Herald and Minnesota Agriculture, to passage of the Federal Student Loan and GI Farm Management Training Programs, the men and women of the Farmers Union in Minnesota have "kept the faith" and led the way to a better life for family farmers, not only in Minnesota, but around the country, as well. More Than A Farm Organization is a testament to their dedication and leadership.

More Than a Farm Organization: The Farmers Union in Minnesota

Business & Money

Muhm, Don

Economics

This photo-illustrated narrative account of Lake Wobegon as it REALLY was gives the reader an affecting glimpse into the lives of threee generations crossing the bridge fom 1800's Old World Norway into main-stream American life.

Crossing the Bridge: Growing Up Norwegian American in Depression and War 1925-1946

Reitan, Earl A.

Tough economic times spawned a radical new kind of farm organization in the wake of the Korean War, a time when the combination of drought and depressed farm prices gripped the rural midlands. In this scenario the National Farmers Organization (NFO) was born. No one sensed then that this new farm group would order a series of controversial food market boycotts in an attempt to obtain its objectives for collective bargaining for American agriculture. The NFO called its boycotts holding actions , and staged such campaigns to try and force food processors to bargain for higher prices for farmers. This book explains the reason for the development of the NFO along with descriptions of the scenarios about specific holding actions and protests.

NFO, A Farm Belt Rebel: A History of the National Farmers Organization

This is a charming and lively collection of poems about a Minnesota life. Growing up, family, rural life and community...this is about McCarthy himself. His love for America has blessed us with political hope, and as a poet, his fine poetry provides a nourishment for our imaginations; poetry s critical role in culture.

Memories of a Native Son

Leaders & Notable People

This large format (8.5x11 inch, landscape), heavily illustrated work (107 drawings by Christopher Millis)is a humorous exploration of the use (and mis-use) of metaphore in the language of American politics and society at large.

American Bestiary

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

The garden is a powerful metaphor for how we live our lives providing food for thought. 
 A Princess and Her Garden is a beautifully illustrated fable about a young girl s search for self-understanding and meaning. Author Pat Adson guides the reader through the life defining question: Can we truly serve others and ultimately fulfill ourselves without nurturing our own needs? 
 The young girl is transformed into a woman as she embarks on the path of self-discovery: The Princess of Other People defines herself by how others see her. The self-sacrificing wife works harder and harder to satisfy an increasingly distant Prince. The vengeful Princess learns that anger and retribution offer only fleeting satisfaction. The mother figure teaches both her child and herself the value of self-reliance. The Queen of Herself finds a mature balance of wisdom and openness. 
 A Princess and Her Garden is a perfect allegory for any stage in life, an ideal gift for the young graduate, the new parent, or the just-divorced...as well as a self-empowering present for you.

A Princess & Her Garden: A Fable of Awakening & Arrival

Patricia R. Adson

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