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Dear county agent guy : calf pulling, husband training, and other curious dispatches from the heart of the Midwest / Jerry Nelson.
Record details
- ISBN: 0761187278
- ISBN: 9780761187271
- Physical Description: xiii, 209 pages : illustrations
- Publisher: New York : Workman Publishing, [2016]
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 21.95 |
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| Subject: | Nelson, Jerry, 1957- Dairy farmers > Biography. Country life > Humor. Humorous stories, American. South Dakota > Social life and customs > Humor. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stroud Branch | 818.602 Nelso | 31681020013041 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining to the country agent. A fourth-generation dairy farmer, Jerry Nelson discovered his voice after he wrote a tongue-in-cheek letter to his county agent for advice on what to do, after a period of heavy rain, about the ducks and Jet Skiers frolicking in his cornfields. From then on Jerry had a new calling to go along with his day job-writing a humorous column called "Dear County Agent Guy." Jerry's depictions of daily life, from the point of view of a taciturn husband with a twinkle in his eye, are read by 250,000 people a week--and occasionally woven into A Prairie Home Companion scripts. These are stories of courtship (Jerry refers to himself as a Norwegian bachelor farmer); childbirth (he offers the delivery room doctor the use of his calf puller); family (he beautifully describes rummaging with his sons through an abandoned family homestead); the duties of a husband (exactly why is it that a man who spends his days in cow manure can't change a baby's diaper?); the days of chores (never will the reader look at a grain silo the same way again). Knee-slappingly funny one moment, poignant the next, it's a very special look at a distinctly American way of life"-- - Baker & Taylor
A fourth-generation dairy farmer offers a humorous look at the life of a Midwest farmer. - Grand Central Pub
âJerry Nelsonâs column comes from the true heart of the Midwest. He has the true voice, the slow twang. He knows wheat from barley. He knows hardware, he knows vegetation, he knows people.ââGarrison Keillor
In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining about the county agent.
His depictions of daily life, from the point of view of an ex-dairy farmer and taciturn husband with a twinkle in his eye, are read by 250,000 people a weekâand occasionally woven into Prairie Home Companion scripts. These are stories of courtship; childbirthâhe offers the delivery room doctor the use of his calf puller; family; neighbors; chores; and the duties of a fatherâwhy is it that a man who spends his days in cow manure canât change a babyâs diaper? Knee-slappingly funny one moment, poignant the next, itâs a very special look at a distinctly American way of life.
 - Workman Press.
"Jerry Nelson's column comes from the true heart of the Midwest. He has the true voice, the slow twang. He knows wheat from barley. He knows hardware, he knows vegetation, he knows people.''Garrison Keillor
In the tradition of Mark Twain and Jean Shepherd, Dave Barry and Garrison Keillor, Jerry Nelson is a humorist whose beat is the American heartland, a small-town world of pickup trucks and Sunday night pancake dinners, dropping in on neighbors and complaining about the county agent.
His depictions of daily life, from the point of view of an ex-dairy farmer and taciturn husband with a twinkle in his eye, are read by 250,000 people a week'and occasionally woven into Prairie Home Companion scripts. These are stories of courtship; childbirth'he offers the delivery room doctor the use of his calf puller; family; neighbors; chores; and the duties of a father'why is it that a man who spends his days in cow manure can't change a baby's diaper? Knee-slappingly funny one moment, poignant the next, it's a very special look at a distinctly American way of life.
