Summers Long Ago is for families - for grandparents to read aloud to their grandchildren, for beginning readers to read to their parents, and for parents and children to read together. It is also for teachers and young students who want to know what life was like on a family farm before furnaces, running water, and electricity changed housekeeping and before cars, trucks, and tractors changed work in the fields, a time when cows had to be milked by hand every day and when almost all of what chickens, pigs, cows, horses, and people ate came directly from the farm. These stories of a city boy's learning to fish for trout in the brook, gather wild blueberries and mushrooms in the back pasture, and dig clams on the shore are an introduction to a distant but still emotionally vibrant aspect of the human past.
- ISBN10 6613046736
- ISBN13 9786613046734
- Publish Date 9 August 2009 (first published 16 July 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 January 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Berkshire Publishing Group
- Format eBook
- Pages 110
- Language English