Meet the Author!
Gayla Marty, author of Memory of Trees: a Daughter's Story of a Family Farm will be at the Northfield Public Library on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at 6:30 p.m. in the meeting room.
Memory of Tress is a muligenerational story of Gayla Marty's family farm near Rush City,
Minnesota. Cleared from woodlands by her great-grandfather Jacob in the 1880's, the farm passed to her father, Gordon, and his brother, Gaylon. Hewing to a conservative Swedish Baptist faith, the two brothers worked the farm, raising their families in side-by-side houses.
University of Minnesota Press.
St. Olaf Bookstore will be selling copies of the book.