A JackMAN of All Trades: Eugene Martin Reflects on a Century of Kentucky Life

ISBN-13: 9781523427420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 394 str.

Loretta Martin Murrey

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A JackMAN of All Trades offers a glimpse into twentieth-century Kentucky farm life from the point of view of a 95-year-old jack of all trades. Eugene Martin, whose mother was a Jackman, has been a farmer, electrician, plumber, welder, carpenter, and block layer, but his favorite endeavor is storytelling, and he has a mind that remembers all the details In spite of completing only eight grades and being medically turned down for service in World War II, his can-do attitude and his sense of humor have allowed him to lead a good life on land that has been farmed by his family for over 150 years. Life was hard for him, but things were simpler then, and the young people who became the Greatest Generation learned to be self sufficient and inventive. People knew how to get by and how to make do. Based on his weekly newspaper column and compiled by his daughter.