Table of contents for Fond recollection : country life, 1918-1941 / Edgar L. McCormick.

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1. Home Place .................................................. 13
2. Five and One-half, Going on Six..... .........................19
3. The Big Snow   ....      .................................... 22
4. Last Day in District 8 ...................................... 26
5. "The Land of Story Books" ..................................  29
6. Homegrown and Homemade
       Cooking by Heart     ................... ................ 33
       Potato Bread and Perfection ............................. 36
7. Merry Fourth of July  .................     .......... .....  39
8. Night Visitors ..... ........................................ 43
9. The Farthest Field   ........................................ 46
10. Threshing Time  ............................................ 50
11. The Orchard ................................. .............. 53
12. The Corn Field   ........................................... 56
13. The Last Old Tree .......................................... 59
14. Four in a Bobsled .......................................... 62
15. Stubborn Foes and Unexpected Friends ....................... 65
16. Spring's Bill of Fare ............. ........................ 68
17. Independent Trees ....     ..............  ................  71
18. Progress ................................................... 75





19. Family Practice ................................. .........  81
20. Doctor Twitchell, Reporter ................. ..............  84
21. Viola's Story ............................... .............. 88
22. Emmet Kurtz's Brimfield .................................... 92
23. The Comet Band      ........................... ...........  96
24. Decoration Day ............................... ............. 99
25. Storekeepers
       Tillman Snyder and Otis Hockensmith .................... 102
       Joseph and Helen Ludick    ............................. 106
       J. D. and Guy Morton   ................................. 109
26. Curt and Helen, Father and Daughter ....................... 114
27. Sunday School and Community ............................... 120
28. Patrons of Husbandry  ..................................... 125
29. The Blue Birds of Brimfield ............................... 130
30. George Urban Remembers the 1920s    ....................... 133
31. Before the Flood: a Walk on Saxe Road ..................... 147
32. Music, Green Hills, and Keyless Locks:
       The Charles A. Thorndike House and Its People .......... 155
33. Katharina, Joe, and Raymond ............................... 159
34. Ralph L. Bunker ....................... ................... 169
35. Roy E. Miller ............................................. 172
36. Elva and Irvin ............................... ............ 174
37. Raymond Stonemetz ................... ...................   177
38. Ernest Bennett ..   ....................................... 179
39. The Happy Life of Ruth Ferry Snyder ....................... 182
40. Spring Valley Christmas ................................... 196
Sources .......... ..    ...................................... 199
Index  .......................................................  204