Lyon County (Minn.) -- Social life and customs.
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Ghent USA
Item
Identifier: 9991-RefShelf-Towns
Abstract
Documentary that focuses on the small southwestern towns of Ghent, Minnesota and Marshall, Minnesota. It provides a history of the towns, and includes interviews with several families that settled there, discussing their migration and farm life.
Dates:
February 7, 1994
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center
Servants of the land : God, family, and farm : the trinity of Belgian economic folkways in southwestern Minnesota
Item
Identifier: 3332-RefShelf-General
Table of Contents
Getting and keeping the land -- The coming of the Belgians -- The Louwagies -- Rivalry with the French-Canadians -- "Big barns and little houses" -- Quick to forsake the land -- Plowing with pencils -- The trinity of faith, land, and family -- Hector and Ida Louwagie -- Peasant-capitalists.
Dates:
Copyright: 1990
Found in:
Southwest Minnesota Historical Center