Ira's Farm: Growing up on a self-sustaining farm in the 1930's and 1940's Tara Powers A must-read for practitioners of

A must-read for practitioners of Yang-style tai chi chuan and all thoseinterested in the philosophy of Chinese martial arts in general

ISBN13: 9780671762612

sentenced to eternal exile in Wisconsin

Published: 04/21/1996

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Ira's Farm: Growing up on a self-sustaining farm in the 1930's and 1940's Tara Powers A must-read for practitioners ofA WWI veteran with a young family, Ira bought a sixty acre farm in the rural community of Harlan Michigan just ninety days before the October 1929 stock market crash and its ensuing financial crisis. He fashioned a living with a team of horses and a never give up work ethic on land his wife often called "sand banks" when a harvest failed. This memoir covers a thirty year span of farming through the eyes of Ira's daughter who went from a bare footed