Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Communityy and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940. By Mary Neth (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995, xiii) and Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885. By Sally McMurry (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. xii)

1996 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 988-991
Author(s):  
A. B. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Farm Women ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Agricultural Change ◽  
Johns Hopkins University ◽  
The Family

Free Your Mind

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Seligman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Family Farm ◽  
Bubonic Plague ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Scientific World ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time

This is not the first time that great universities have had to shut their doors during an epidemic. And there is perhaps a lesson for all students about what can happen during a shutdown. In 1665, Cambridge University closed as the bubonic plague swept across England. Isaac Newton, a 22-year-old student, was forced to retreat to the family farm, Woolsthorpe Manor. Isolated there for more than a year, on his own he revolutionized the scientific world. Newton said that this shutdown freed him from the pressures of the curriculum and led to the best intellectual years of his life.

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