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Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
An intriguing alternate history, this guide to the county illustrates and describes people, places, and incidents that are unusual, odd, or extraordinary. We discover the truth about "the fasting woman of Shottisham," who was alleged not to have eaten for three months; the "tithe war" of the 1930s, when some farmers were reduced to selling their tractors for sixpence; unusual entrepreneurs, misers, and witches, and also the tales behind a number of...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An Iowa farm boy longs to quit school and join his dad working the land. Dick comes home from school early and tells his mother he was sent home with a stomachache. She puts him to bed and tells him to get some sleep, but Dick can't shut his eyes for a second. All his life he's wanted to be a farmer - to quit school and join his father and brother driving tractors across their sprawling property - and today is his chance. His father is getting a 2nd...
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