(print) x, 220 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Preface ix -- 1 The Years of Copper 3 -- 2 Mother and the Twentieth-Century House 19 -- 3 Hired Men Were Characters 31 -- 4 Self-sufficient—Almost But Not Quite 43 -- 5 The Years Began with Spring 57 -- 6 The Lively Old Summertime 77 -- 7 Threshing—the Glamor Job 87 -- 8 Corn Knife and Husking Peg 101 -- 9 The Meat-makers of Winter 117 -- 10 Animals, Cranks to Turn, and Buried Labor 131 -- 11 The Rural Social Whirl 149 -- 12 Educator and Citizen 167 -- 13 Neighbors and Incidents 179 -- 14 Buggy and Model T 191 -- 15 The Setting and Some Contrasts 203 -- 16 The Later Years 211