Tom Norton

On Pa's Farm 1910-1917 Tom Norton

The content of this book depicts a small period of time in the lives of children on poor family farms during the period 1910 to 1917. There are two stories in this book, involving different children in different locations, but their lifestyle was remarkably the same as well as being the same as thousands of other farm children at that time. The intent of the stories is to convey the message that there were millions of children with individual personalities, emotions and personal experiences that lived in this country and they are not blocked out by a wall we call the past. We older people of today can give these children life and personalities again by remembering what was told of them by our parents and grandparents. If we cannot imagine the personalities and experiences of these children of the past, we at least should have heard enough about that time period and our familiy for us to at least imagine how their life must have been.