The End Of August

The story of farm life at the turn of the 20th century told through family's memories and actual events.The now 96-year-old Anna reminisces on her life as a young farm wife and mother of five, the joys and sorrows of living through both good and hard times. Anna muses back into her past, intertwining both poignant and joyous memories with the reality of her resent surroundings. She reminisces about her life in Green Valley, a quiet, close knit farming community. It was here that Anna was born, grew up, married and reared her family. From horse and buggy to men on the moon, Anna shares he rmemories of raging blizzards, colorful gypsies, quarantine and dread diseases, threshing day, an angry lynch mob, Buffalo Bill, Charles Lindbergh and the simple pleasures of farm life. Anna relates the story of her Poppa coming to America, the pain of leaving family behind yet eager to face a new frontier. A spirited child, unlike her more docile siblings Anna was the apple of her Poppa's eye, and and most of her unruly antics were overlooked. But her Momma was stern. So with age and the harshness of the times, Anna began burying her emotions deep inside never wanting anyone to know that she often felt joy and tenderness. Remembering happier times and simple pleasures, Anna compares her life then to the present with mixed emotions. She often ponders, "Would she like to go back?"Joyce Thompson is the author of 'The End Of August', published 2000 under ISBN 9780967531816 and ISBN 0967531810.