{"product_id":"the-farm-that-adopted-me-hardcover","title":"The Farm that Adopted Me - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGuy Loudermilk\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"What are we going to do with the kids?\" Dad's statement frightened me. We didn't know Mom had been given an opportunity to visit her Navy sister wife, Sheryl, living in the Panama Canal Zone. How in blazes does a small town, 15-year-old boy, who was riding his bike around town one week, end up in the middle of Indiana driving a huge old tractor the next?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom tennis shoes to clod hoppers? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom shorts to bib overalls? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom ball caps to straw hats? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom playing all day to working all day? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom ignoring girls to falling in love?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRob is about to find out about the phrase, 'culture shock'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGuy Loudermilk is 89 years old. He is married and has a family which extends through great grandchildren. Guy graduated from Nappanee, Indiana High School in 1951 and spent four years with the United States Air Force, earning an Honorable Discharge in 1956. His duties allowed him to spend two years in Japan getting in and out of an active war zone. He married a NYC girl, then worked for a year and a half, working in a cabinet factory before entering Ball State Teacher's College in 1957 with the assist of the GI Bill. Guy met his first employer on a cold spring morning on the doorstep of a barbershop in Muncie, Indiana. Dr. McKenzie offered him a job on the spot to begin teaching in the Fall of 1960. As he taught children to use words, he found himself enjoying putting words of paper. He taught or administrated Elementary schools for thirty-eight years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 54\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.25 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 29, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42156863881351,"sku":"9798889250029","price":25.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/1f3637349dd8763fbd8e772871614488.webp?v=1733246895","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/the-farm-that-adopted-me-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}