About the author
Julianne Fetterly, Mother, Grandmother, Great grandmother, widower, and matriarch of her parents multi-generational Vince family. She relates her life story from the 1920's rural New York to her elderly years in Virginia Beach. She chronicles her youth on the family farm in great detail, describing the machinery and chores involved in running a large diary farm: milking cows, threshing wheat, gathering silage, and maintaining fields and house. Her writings are frank and straightforward manner of her own yothful indiscreations. Her dissatisfaction with the limits of farm life is clearly coupled with a love for the rhythum and routeen of the farm. Her ambitious and hardworking husband and many of thier seven children, endured living on a dairy farm, building houses, job changes, and travel - both by RV through the United States, and across the ocean to Morocco and throughout Europe. Her family bonds, at times fraught, are depicted with humor. Family relationships - to her parents (especially to her "Jekyll and Hyde" father), to her mild-mannered and friendly husband, and to her boisterous children - described with candor and personality, making this a valuable chronicle of a large family life; and Fetterly family history.