Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family - A Photo History of Indiana''s Early County Extension Agents

Informationen zum Autor Frederick Whitford has worked in the Purdue School of Agriculture and the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service for nearly twenty-five years. His interest in the history of the interaction between the campus extension specialist and the county extension educator with agriculturists turned into an adventure in writing numerous books on the subject. Neal Harmeyer is an archivist at Purdue University Archives and Special Collections. Harmeyer grew up on a multigenerational family farm in northeastern Fayette County, Indiana, where he helped raise animals. He earned a BA degree in history from Purdue and an MLS degree from Indiana University. Klappentext Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue University's Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Enriching Hoosier Farms and Families includes hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituents' reluctance to change. Zusammenfassung Compiled from original county agent records discovered in Purdue University’s Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, Enriching Hoosier Farms and Families includes hundreds of rare, never-before-published photographs and anecdotal information about how county agents overcame their constituents’ reluctance to change.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick (EDT)/ Harmeyer Whitford, Frederick Harmeyer Whitford
• Assisted by: Neal Harmeyer (Editor), David M Hovde (Editor), David M. Hovde (Editor), Frederick Whitford (Editor)
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2016
• EAN: 9781557537430
• ISBN: 978-1-55753-743-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: The Founders Series; The Founders Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous