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By Alan Guebert,Mary Grace Foxwell

"The river used to be in God's fingers, the cows in ours." So handed the times on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on seven-hundred acres of wealthy Illinois bottomland. during this assortment, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell remember Guebert's years at the land operating as a part of that all-consuming collaborative attempt often called the relatives farm.

 

Here are Guebert's tireless mom and dad, measuring the 12 months now not in months yet in seasons for stitching, haying, and doing the books; Jackie the farmhand, desiring 90 mins to do sixty mins' paintings and cussing the whole time; Hoard the dairyman, sore hands wrapped in electrician's tape, sharing wine and the prettiest Christmas tree ever; and the unflappable Uncle Honey, spreading mayhem through mistreated equipment, flipped wagons, and the careless union of diesel gas and fire.

 

Guebert's heartfelt and funny memories depict the difficult hard work and straightforward pleasures to be present in ennobling paintings, and exhibit that during lifestyles, as in farming, Uncle Honey had it correct along with his succinct philosophy for overcoming adversity: "the key's to not stop." 

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"The river used to be in God's fingers, the cows in ours. " So handed the times on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on seven-hundred acres of wealthy Illinois bottomland. during this assortment, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell keep in mind Guebert's years at the land operating as a part of that all-consuming collaborative attempt referred to as the relations farm.

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