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In The Attic, his sequel to the classic We Have All Gone Away, Curtis Harnack returns to his rural Iowa homeplace to sift through an attic full of the trash and treasures left behind by the thirteen children in two generations who grew up in the big farmhouse. The adult Harnack had been making pilgrimages to his past from various parts of the country for thirty-plus years; now the death of an uncle and the disposal of an estate bring him home once more. The resonant diaries, church bulletins, photos, newspaper clippings, and other memo
Farm life --- Authors, American --- Harnack, Curtis, --- Childhood and youth. --- Iowa --- IA --- State of Iowa --- Ayova --- Штат Аёва --- Shtat Ai︠o︡va --- Аёва --- Ai︠o︡va --- Айова --- Áawah Hahoodzo --- Iowa osariik --- Αϊόβα --- Πολιτεία της Αϊóβα --- Politeia tēs Aiova --- Estado de Iowa --- Iovao --- Oi-hò-fà --- 아이오와 주 --- Aiowa-ju --- 아이오와 --- Aiowa --- Áyowạ --- Iova --- Aioua --- Айовæ --- Aĭovæ --- Ajova --- Ајова --- アイオワ州 --- Aiowa-shū --- Aiowashū --- アイオワ --- Estado ng Ayowa --- Iowa Eyaleti --- Штат Айова --- Iowa Territory --- Territory of Iowa --- Social life and customs.
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In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard's Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America's first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master ane
Farm life --- Authors, American --- Harnack, Curtis, --- Childhood and youth. --- Iowa --- IA --- State of Iowa --- Ayova --- Штат Аёва --- Shtat Ai︠o︡va --- Аёва --- Ai︠o︡va --- Айова --- Áawah Hahoodzo --- Iowa osariik --- Αϊόβα --- Πολιτεία της Αϊóβα --- Politeia tēs Aiova --- Estado de Iowa --- Iovao --- Oi-hò-fà --- 아이오와 주 --- Aiowa-ju --- 아이오와 --- Aiowa --- Áyowạ --- Iova --- Aioua --- Айовæ --- Aĭovæ --- Ajova --- Ајова --- アイオワ州 --- Aiowa-shū --- Aiowashū --- アイオワ --- Estado ng Ayowa --- Iowa Eyaleti --- Штат Айова --- Iowa Territory --- Territory of Iowa --- Social life and customs. --- Printers --- Inventors --- Scientists --- Statesmen --- Franklin, Benjamin, --- Franklin, Venīamin, --- Franklin, V. --- Firānklīn, Binzhāmīn, --- Fu-lan-kʻo-lin, --- Fu-lan-kʻo-lin, Mu-chieh-ming, --- Franklin, Ben, --- Franklin, --- Franklin, B. --- Franklin, Beniamino, --- Tradesman of Philadelphia, --- Pirāṅḷin̲, Peñcamin̲, --- Франклин, Бенджамин, --- Franklin, Bendzhamin, --- פראנקלין, בנימין --- פראנקלין, בנימין, --- فرانكلين، بنجامين، --- فرانكلين، بنيامين --- فرانكلين، بنڇامين --- 富兰克林, --- Saunders, Richard, --- Friends and associates.
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In the 1880's, the well-connected young Englishman William B. Close and his three brothers, having bought thousands of acres of northwest Iowa prairie, conceived the idea of enticing sons of Britain's upper classes to pursue the life of the landed gentry on these fertile acres. "Yesterday a wilderness, today an empire": their bizarre experiment, which created a colony for people "of the better class" who were not in line to inherit land but whose fathers would set them up in farming, flourished in Le Mars, Iowa (and later in Pipestone, Minnesota), with over five hundred
British --- Agricultural colonies --- History --- Cowan, Walter. --- Cowan, James, --- Close Colony (Iowa) --- Big Sioux River Valley (S.D. and Iowa) --- History.
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