Chronicling nearly nine decades of life and work on a Maine farm, this memoir by Will and Minnie Penney presents a wonderful look back at rural life before and during the Depression, in the heady post-war years, and late, as family farms began to give way to larger industrial farms. The Penney's adapted to change by adjusting the way they farmed, focusing on fewer crops, adding dairy cows to their stock, even harvesting trees from the woodlot and cutting them into lumberwith the farm's lumber mill. Through it all the Penney's toughed it out and thrived on their slice of Maine heaven.

The Penney Farm in Belgrade, Maine, remained in the family for more than one hundred and fifty years. Eighty-Eighth Years on a Maine Farm is part Will Penney's personal memoir and part Minnie's diary. Together, they show readers just what everyday life on a busy Maine farm was like.

Author: Will Penney, Minnie Penney
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 07/21/2021
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.35d
ISBN: 9781608937479

About the Author
After spending his life on the family farm, Will Penney passed away in 1975. Minnie had pre-deceased him by a year. The Penney farm is no longer in existence.