Fred Hudson

Chasing Utopia

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Produktbeschreibung

Fourteen-year-old Fred Warren Harker was anxious when Dad asked him to quit school forever in summer 1924 and take off to far west, desert Texas, while the younger kids got to hang around home, get Mama's cooking and a clean bed to sleep in. Dad's ideas were extreme. He wanted to raise cotton some place where the banks, ginners and the retailers had nothing to do with anything by gathering a community of like-minded farmers, working out the details and forming a cooperative. And Fred was supposed to make the gas and food money for the trip. It turned out he was one of the best cotton pickers anybody had ever seen. There were pretty girls in the cotton patch and fun in between work and traveling. Then there were also wonderful folk of all cultures for their polka and waltz across Texas, accompanied by Dad's charming fiddle playing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers LLC
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 233g
• ISBN-13: 9781788782401
• ISBN-10: 1788782402
• Artikelnr.: 55398189

Autorenporträt

Fred Hudson is a retired Associate Professor. He has spent most of his career in industry and academics, developing systems and teaching engineering in Texas, but has spent productive times in Norway, New York City and New Jersey. Along with painting and writing, he enjoys the arts, swimming in springs and rivers, and cooking. He delights in his wife, children and grandchildren. He lives in Austin, Texas.