{"product_id":"chronicles-of-ginger-farm-life-on-a-small-canadian-farm-during-times-of-great-global-change-1929-1962-9781926645025","title":"Chronicles of Ginger Farm: Life on a Small Canadian Farm During Times of Great Global Change, 1929-1962","description":"This history-making book gives readers a rare look at a mostly forgotten but dramatically important reality: rural life in the twentieth century. It is a selection of Gwendoline P. Clarke's colourful, richly detailed and heart-warming newspaper columns about day-to-day life on the one hundred acres she and her husband, “Partner, ” farmed near Milton, Ontario. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gwen filed her stories weekly to the \u003ci\u003eActon Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e from April 1929 to August 1962 — years that drew her and her fellow Canadians into world-changing and nation-building events: the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War and the ups and downs of the economy, of which farming was always a central part. While keenly concerned by those events — especially the Second World War, with her son fighting overseas and her English relatives toughing out Hitler's bombing raids — Gwen never failed to entertain her readers with her stories of: \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003emilking, calving, feeding the chickens, planting and threshing \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe rise and fall of egg and milk prices \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003etrips to the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe vicissitudes of every weather pattern the country could throw their way \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003echanges in farming technology, from horse-drawn plough to oil-burning and then gas-powered tractors and from hand milking to the wonders of the milking machine \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eand the slow and rare acquisition of modern conveniences, from buggy to car, oil lamps to electricity, and crackly radio to flickering black-and-white TV \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003ci\u003eGWENDOLINE P. CLARKE\u003c\/i\u003e moved from England to Canada as a War Bride with her husband after the First World War. Besides being a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eActon Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e, she wrote articles for various Canadian and English newspapers and magazines and reported on Halton County Council meetings for the Milton and Acton papers. Gwendoline Clarke was a faithful and active member of the Scotch Block Women's Institute and an early advocate for the preservation of timberlands and local flora and fauna.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BPS Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781926645025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 428\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.09lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.87d","brand":"Gwendoline P. Clarke","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41261650903221,"sku":"9781926645025","price":22.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ded4f0a8-7957-4f4c-ad62-c43e69dc9c31.jpg?v=1634651616","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chronicles-of-ginger-farm-life-on-a-small-canadian-farm-during-times-of-great-global-change-1929-1962-9781926645025","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}