Hardscrabble:
Growing Up Poor in the Midwest
by Dean Volenec

ISBN: 1–880090–65–1
Size: 5-1/4 x 8 • 224 pgs.
Price: $14.95

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Dean Volenec takes us back to a simpler time. A time without radio, television, electricity, or indoor plumbing. A time also full of love and laughter amid the troubles of the Depression. From a small, rural Wisconsin farm comes the true story of earnest, conscientious, hard-working people living at a time that tried even the hardiest of souls.

The late Dean Volenec grew up on a 120-acre farm in southern Wisconsin. He was a warden for the state of Wisconsin for 30 years. He was a member of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and the Great Lakes Outdoor Writers and wrote a column for the Red Wing Republican Eagle newspaper for 16 years.