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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs: Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm

Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs: Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm

Hillman, Jimmye

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ISBN10: 0816529914
ISBN13: 9780816529919
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Mar 1 2012
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

It's in the nature of things that whole worlds disappear, writes the poet Robert Hass in the foreword to Jimmye Hillman's insightful memoir. Their vanishings, more often than not, go unrecorded or pass into myth, just as they slip from the memory of the living.

To ensure that the world of Jimmye Hillman's childhood in Greene County, Mississippi during the Great Depression doesn't slip away, he has gathered together accounts of his family and the other people of Old Washington village. There are humorous stories of hog hunting and heart-wrenching tales of poverty set against a rural backdrop shaded by the local social, religious, and political climate of the time. Jimmye and his family were subsistence farmers out of bare-bones necessity, decades before discussions about sustainability made such practices laudable.

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