Ira's Farm: Growing up on a self-sustaining farm in the 1930's and 1940's Tara Powers and murder of the innocent

and murder of the innocent and unprotected by powerful and wealthy people

and others I'd learned of for the first time

Published: 04/21/1996

ISBN13: 9780671762612

ISBN13: 9780692505786

Ira's Farm: Growing up on a self-sustaining farm in the 1930's and 1940's Tara Powers and murder of the innocentA 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