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Life on a Rocky Farm
2013
Overview
Life on a Rocky Farm couples Lucas C. Barger's (1866-1939)
eye for detail with a folksy, anecdotal style to give us a
remarkable and memorable depiction of both the traditional ways of
farm life, and the challenges the farmers faced as the times
changed. Previously unpublished, Barger's first-hand account of
farm life near New York City begins in the late nineteenth century.
Little had changed for well over a century in the hilly and rugged
terrain of Putnam Valley, where Lucas grew up as a member of the
sixth generation of Barger farmers. But as the nineteenth century
gave way to the twentieth, industrialization and mechanization
decreased the demand for farm labor and farmers had to come up with
alternate ways to make money. For a long time, supplemental income
came from varied means such as beekeeping and using the local
forest resources to provide railroad ties, ship timber, and barrel
hoops. Wealthy summer boarders from New York City also provided
some extra income, but despite the short distance, transportation
remained arduous, and population growth did not occur until high
improvements were made in the 1930s. Peter A. Rogerson's
transcription reflects the flavor of Barger's original writing, as
Barger himself said when he was first attempting to publish back in
1939, \"I read something along back, that a publisher wrote, and he
said, 'Do not change your style.' He claimed the style was
sometimes the best part. And I guess that is what you are getting
at. If you can call my scribbling a style, and you think it
'odd' use it any way you like. For my main intentions were
to write an odd book as I told you once before.\"
Publisher
State University of New York Press,Excelsior
Subject
ISBN
1438446020, 9781438446028, 9781438446035, 1438446039
