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Blue Shadows Farm: When the Past Returns, No One Walks Alone

Blue Shadows Farm: When the Past Returns, No One Walks Alone

Apps, Jerry

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Series: Ames County Novel, Book 3

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 196731196X
ISBN13: 9781967311965
Publisher: Little Creek Press
Published: Oct 21 2025
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Civil War secrets, small-town intrigue, and the land's quiet miracles--woven across generations in Wisconsin.

Silas Starkweather, a Civil War veteran, is drawn to Wisconsin and homesteads 160 acres in Ames County, where he is known as the mysterious farmer forever digging holes. After years of hardship and toil, however, Silas develops a commitment to farming his land and respect for his new community. When Silas's son Abe inherits Blue Shadows Farm he chooses to keep the land out of reluctant necessity, distilling and distributing purified corn water; throughout Prohibition and the Great Depression in order to stay solvent. Abe's daughter, Emma, willingly takes over the farm after her mother's death. Emma's love for this place inspires her to open the farm to school-children and families who share her respect for it. As she considers selling the land, Emma is confronted with a difficult question, who, through thick and thin, will care for Blue Shadows Farm as her family has done for over a century? In the midst of a controversy that disrupts the entire community, Emma looks into her family's past to help her make crucial decisions about the future of its land.

Through the story of the Starkweather family's changing fortunes, and each generation's very different relationship with the farm and the land, Blue Shadows Farm is in some ways the narrative of all farmers and the increasingly difficult challenges they face as committed stewards of the land.

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