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- 9780816529919
- Book Title
- Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs : Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Arizona Press
- Edition
- 2
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
- Topic
- Social Scientists & Psychologists, Personal Memoirs, Agriculture / General, Customs & Traditions
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 0 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 264 Pages
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"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. More than just childhood memories and a family saga, though, this book serves as a snapshot of the natural, historical, and linguistic details of the time and place. It is a remarkable record of Southern life. Observations loaded with detail uncover broader themes of work, family loyalty, and the politics of changing times. Hillman, now eighty-eight, went on to a distinguished career as an economist specializing in agriculture. He realizes the importance of his story as an example of the cultural history of the Deep South but allows readers to discover the significance on their own by witnessing the lives of a colorful cast of characters. Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs is unique, a blend of humor and reflection, wisdom and sympathy--but it's also a hard-nosed look at the realities of living on a dirt farm in a vanished world.
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Publisher
University of Arizona Press
ISBN-10
0816529914
ISBN-13
9780816529919
eBay Product ID (ePID)
112875361
Product Key Features
Book Title
Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs : Growing Up on a Mississippi Subsistence Farm
Edition
2
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Social Scientists & Psychologists, Personal Memoirs, Agriculture / General, Customs & Traditions
Publication Year
2012
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Technology & Engineering, Social Science
Number of Pages
264 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
0 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Hd1771.5.H55a3 2012
Reviews
"Jimmye Hillman has written a beautiful book about a place I know well. Yet it's a testament to the exactness of his prose, and his very acute vision, that on every single page he told me something I didn't know and could never have imagined. This work is brimming with life. I almost never find a book I love like I love this one."--Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors, "Jimmye Hillman has written a beautiful book about a place I know well. Yet it's a testament to the exactness of his prose, and his very acute vision, that on every single page he told me something I didn't know and could never have imagined. This work is brimming with life. I almost never find a book I love like I love this one." --Steve Yarbrough, author of Safe from the Neighbors, "This volume is a fascinating memoir by one uniquely qualified to write of his years growing up in the culturally remote and depression poor 'piney woods' of Southern Mississippi. Jimmye Hillman has preserved for us in his inimitable style the almost-lost stories of life in a different time. It holds invaluable lessons for all of us who seek to understand better the richness and diversity of our history and culture."--Governor William F. Winter, "This volume is a fascinating memoir by one uniquely qualified to write of his years growing up in the culturally remote and depression poor 'piney woods' of Southern Mississippi. Jimmye Hillman has preserved for us in his inimitable style the almost-lost stories of life in a different time. It holds invaluable lessons for all of us who seek to understand better the richness and diversity of our history and culture." --Governor William F. Winter
Table of Content
List of Illustrations Foreword, by Robert Hass Acknowledgments Beginnings The Suddy Sow The Easiest Way to Pineville Discovering Sounds The Avera I Knew Thad Hill Trains Widow Smith's Blue Boar Charles Hillman The Old Turner Place The No-yer'd Bar Greene County Dictionary Life on the Farm One Mississippi Christmas, 1931 Hestle Uncle Bo Humoring a Mule What We Ate Back Then Sex on the Farm God and Politics Old Washington Baptist Yellow Dog Politics Endings Soft Womb of Greene County
Copyright Date
2012
Lccn
2011-040707
Dewey Decimal
338.1092 B
Dewey Edition
23
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