| Minnie Rose Logreen grew up on
a farm in England and, with her husband, ran a dairy farm on Bainbridge
Island, WA, for many years, and she had always wanted to write a book on
raising chickens. When she became ill with cancer in
1975, her friend Nancy Rekow took a tape recorder to the hospital and began to record Minnie's chicken lore.
Eight of these tape recordings still exist,
but only two of them contain her chicken-raising advice. The rest
document her life story, which NW Trillium Press has published as Far
As I Can Remember: An Immigrant Woman's Story, 1888-1975.
Here are two excerpts from the tapes.
- 1. Feeding New Chicks in the House
(3:35)
- 2. Beginning of
the Lovgreen Dairy Farm (4:51)
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