Ridge Stories: Herding Hens, Powdering Pigs, and Other Recollections from a Boyhood in the Driftless

by Gary Jones

Straight talk from up on the farm

Raised on a small dairy farm in the Driftless Area in the mid-twentieth century, Gary Jones gets real about his rural roots. In this collection of interrelated stories, Jones writes with plainspoken warmth and irreverence about farm, family, and folks on the ridge. Readers will meet Gramp Jones, whose oversized overalls saved him from losing a chunk of flesh to an irate sow; the young one-room-school teacher...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087020923X
• ISBN13: 9780870209239
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"