By Maxine Bergerson Werner
In Country Ragamuffins, Maxine Bergerson Werner invitations readers on a trip again to the Nineteen Fifties as she remembers her upbringing because the oldest woman between 8 siblings in a Norwegian farming group in rural Minnesota.
To express and defend the stories, values, and personality of a regular Midwestern farm relations of the time ''before these stories develop dim and at last disappear,'' the writer deals this chronicle laced with humor and appreciation. Werner's mom and dad cultivated a life-style that mixed exertions, studying, and time for adolescence enjoyable and play within the surrounding fields, pastures, and woodlands.
Connectedness used to be the topic of their satisfied lifestyles. each family member participated within the functioning of the farm; siblings have been top buddies; and laughter and debate have been welcome on the dinner desk. The day-by-day exercises, the chores, the vacation festivities, and the births of siblings are recorded in scrapbook fashion.
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