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We Made It Through the Winter: A Memoir of a Northern Minnesota Boyhood

We Made It Through the Winter: A Memoir of a Northern Minnesota Boyhood

Omeara, Walter

Paperback

Series: Minnesota

Literary FiguresGeneral World History

ISBN10: 087351212X
ISBN13: 9780873512121
Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press
Published: Apr 15 1987
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
In this delightful memoir, O'Meara recounts a ten-year-old boy's year in the northern Minnesota sawmill town of Cloquet at the turn of the twentieth century. A talented historian/novelist, he vividly evokes the sights and sounds, joys and sorrows of family life set against the background of the lumbering industry when white pine was still king.

Season by season, O'Meara evokes the sights and sounds of family life and work in an era when the crisp days of autumn meant digging in, and when it was up to the boy in the family to stack firewood for the kitchen range and dig enough potatoes to last until the return of spring. The author's words recreate the bone-chilling cold of a Minnesota winter when a boy snared rabbits to help supply the family table, when your ears could freeze to a dead, marble-like whiteness after only a few minutes of exposure, and when a boy's father was gone up in the woods to work in one of the forty-odd logging camps near Cloquet. The arrival of spring was marked by his father's return from the camps while summer meant bare feet, the noisy frontier exuberance of the Fourth of July, and summer visitors--gypsies, traveling circuses, and chimney sweeps.

A talented historian/novelist, O'Meara vividly evokes the sights and sounds, joys and sorrows of family life set against the background of the lumbering industry when white pine was still king.

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