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"In the 1930s, The Farmer's Wife offered inspiration and positivity in the 'Letters from our farm women" column. Each month, the magazine published letters from readers that offered support and encouragement to each other in an economically challenging time for our country. The Farmer's Wife 1930s sampler quilt shares ninety-nine of these letters from The Farmer's Wife magazine published during the 1930s, and a traditional quilt block inspired by...
3) Cloudmaker
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"It is spring of 1937, and Amelia Earhart plans on being the first pilot, male or female, to attempt to circumnavigate the globe. Meanwhile, in rural Montana, fourteen-year-old Houston 'Huck' Finn has aviation dreams of his own. In his father's garage, Huck works to build his own airplane-a secret he has kept from his God-fearing mother. When he and a friend discover a dead man in the creek, a rare Lindberg flight watch on his wrist, Huck takes it...
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It's 1938 and women seeking a quick, no-questions split from their husbands head to the "divorce capital of the world," Reno, Nevada. There's one catch: they have to wait six-weeks to become "residents." Many of these wealthy, soon-to-be divorcees flock to the Flying Leap, a dude ranch that caters to their every need. Twenty-four-year-old Ward spent one year at Yale before his family lost everything in the Great Depression; now he's earning an honest...
5) Tightrope
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"An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a machine that could change the world"--Provided by publisher.
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"1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fiancé, Violet Speedwell has become a 'surplus woman,' one of a generation destined to remain unmarried after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a future spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. Setting out for Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals, she finds both a job and a roomo of her own in a boarding house. Violet...
7) Close up
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"Welcome to Burning Cove, California, where 1930s Hollywood glamour conceals a ruthless killer. Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes. Although she is set on making a career of transforming her photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what's paying the bills. After shooting crime scene photos...
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Wonder what it was like to grow up in a small town in America during the 1930s? Whether sneaking into the train depot to surreptitiously tap out Morse code, spying on horse-drawn carriages heading for town or rolling bandages for soldiers, Jacqueline Brunais (nee Breniser) didn’t miss much as she grew up in Gregory, Michigan. She describes what happened when the Ku Klux Klan came to town, the men’s jawboning in her father’s filling station and...
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