{"product_id":"farmed-out-in-ontonagon-county-paperback","title":"Farmed Out in Ontonagon County - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eW. Patrick Winton\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"You're the man of the house now, Pat.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter learning that a 46-year-old father had dropped dead at the dinner table, a neighbor put his hand on the boy's seven-year-old shoulder and outlined the course of his future. From that moment on, heavy burdens fell on those skinny shoulders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1947, Pat's distraught mother brought her children to her family's rural Finnish homestead in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Pat labored to find ways to support them, but his chronically ill mother had to farm her children out to live with others and work for room and board. When she remarried, they moved to a hardscrabble farm under the critical scrutiny of an abusive stepfather. The day the stepfather stabbed a pitchfork into Pat's back, the boy left, never to return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePat struggled for everything he needed, including wrangling with school officials to enter high school without parental permission. To support himself, he found work in the unlikeliest of places - a rough-and-ready carnival, manure piles, and oat fields where he harvested rocks and weeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDespite seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pat excelled academically and was elected student council president.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then one day the police arrived at school, handcuffed him and hauled him to court for a crime he didn't commit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes were very different in postwar America- or perhaps not. Farmed Out in Ontonagon County chronicles the boy's journey of hard knocks, hard work, persistence, forgiveness, and a strong belief in the Almighty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHE BOY PREVAILED.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.34 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 30, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51749183979808,"sku":"9798989948406","price":19.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/ba6cde59741dc1cdf39b7d54c8135423.webp?v=1779925775","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/farmed-out-in-ontonagon-county-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}