James E Roghair

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Memories of Okaton, South Dakota

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this memoir James E Roghair recalls growing up as a South Dakota farm boy in the sixth decade after statehood. He, his parents and three younger siblings shared a small house without indoor plumbing, electricity, or telephone, near unincorporated Okaton, with its small school and church. The summer he was twelve, he drove a farm tractor preparing soil for the next season's cash crop, winter wheat. He tended a variety of animals, a garden, and other crops-the variety of a typical family farm. As you read his story, you can observe farm life in the 1940s and 1950s and imagine the contrast to typical life today. Join the author looking back at the lessons he learned-and a little mischief he was involved in-on the farm, in school, in church, and in the 4-H club. It was all preparation for adult life and responsibilities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: iUniverse
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781663255037
• Artikelnr.: 69300596

Autorenporträt

After his early years in South Dakota (1943-1957), his family moved to Oregon, where he graduated from McMinnville High School. Later he earned degrees from Whitworth College, Spokane, Washington, and Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey. He was ordained to Presbyterian ministry, served several churches, and received advanced degrees from McCormick Seminary, Chicago, and Garrett-Evangelical Seminary, Evanston, Illinois.

Although of mostly Dutch ancestry, he served in a variety of cultures including African American, White, and integrated congregations in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Ohio, New Jersey, Illinois, and Georgia. He co-pastored with his late wife Rev. Willa Baechlin Roghair (1943-1994) Utqiavik Presbyterian Church, an Iñupiaq congregation, in Utqiavik, Alaska (formerly Barrow). With his second wife, Elizabeth Byers Roghair, he retired to Santa Fe, New Mexico, where he now assists a church on Laguna Pueblo, and occasionally others. His two sons and a daughter-in-law live in Utqiavik. Jim enjoys relating his diverse experiences-especially those of his childhood on the prairies told in this memoir.