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In a Pickle
A Family Farm Story
by Jerold W. Apps
ISBN: 0299223000
ISBN-13: 9780299223007
Format: Hardcover
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Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr
Published date: 2007
Pages: 248
Publisher's Notes
In 1955, Andy Meyer, a young farmer and manager of the pickle factory in Link Lake, Wisconsin, and his fellow farmers are confronted by the arrival of the powerful H. H. Harlow Pickle Company, which uses heavy-handed tactics to force the locals to do things their way, threatening the rural community and its way of life.
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