ISBN: 0984145656 9780984145652

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Page count: 131

It is the mid 1930s deep Depression. The Vernal Morin family is trying to get by on rented farmsteads outside Terre Haute, Indiana. They plant acres of tomatoes in the hope of gaining stability; the Terre Haute canning factory doesn't take their produce and they are forced to move again. The story of this family during dark days, told by one of Indiana s best known Methodist ministers, Jim Morin, the father s son. This book is part biography and part personal search to understand the father he lost when he was a boy of fourteen. Vernal Morin died in 1937, worn down by failures at hard-scrabble farming and being laid off from the Terre Haute power-generating plant, where he was an engineer. Reverend Jim Morin has told his family saga tale through a series of vignettes which reflect the life the family lived in the series of farms and homes in which they live.