Helen Lingscheit Heavirland

Surviving the Sand (eBook, ePUB)

My Family's Struggle to Farm the Pasco Desert
Illustrator: Lawton, Caryn

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Dad's eyes danced. His grin held happiness...hope. 'We're home!' he announced. Mom stared out the pickup window. Silent. Lifeless...Tufts of skinny grass and small grayish green bushes surrounded us. The land lay flat in every direction as far as I could see."

Helen Lingscheit Heavirland spent her early years in western Oregon's beautiful woods, where her father Wayne Lingscheit's work as a logger provided a comfortable home. But Wayne dreamed of farming, and Columbia Basin Project irrigation opened a new opportunity. In 1954 he and his wife Gladys moved their family--seven-year-old Helen, baby Hazel, twelve-year-old Frank, and fifteen-year-old Emma--to raw land in Pasco, Washington, that was mostly bunchgrass and sagebrush. The only structures were a roofless outhouse, an eight-foot by sixteen-foot wooden shack, and a pen for sheep and goats.

In Surviving the Sand, Helen shares her family's hardscrabble yet heartwarming story, chronicling common hardships many faced in the Columbia Basin Project's early settlement days. She describes breaking sod, plants destroyed by wind-whipped sand, and a harrowing first winter sleeping outside after a storm shredded their tent, but also simple joys like fresh apricots, Crokinole games, and letters from loved ones. Most of all, she relates how--despite the heartache, arduous work, and tough times--her family loves, laughs, and works together as they chase her father's seemingly impossible dream.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Washington State University Press
• Seitenzahl: 270
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781638640134
• Artikelnr.: 70128471

Autorenporträt

Helen Lingscheit Heavirland holds a B. S. in Nursing from Walla Walla University, and eventually served as a director of nursing. She also worked with her husband at his business, and has travelled internationally to help build new schools and assist with free medical clinics. Because written words inspire her, she began to write, and now has published five books as well as hundreds of stories, devotions, poems, songs, and articles in magazines and anthologies. Her writing has won multiple Cascade Awards and an honorable mention from Writer's Digest. Currently she teaches ordinary people to write inspiring stories, and in her spare time enjoys hiking, biking, birding, and skiing.