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by Andrea Zimmermann

Eleanor Mayer had a career in banking and real estate but along with her brother, she continued to assist her aging father until she assumed the entire management of Cherry Grove Farm. She tells of her grandfather’s settling in Newtown; the farming lifestyle; the hired hands who lived with her family; the one-room schoolhouse she attended in 1936; being in the first class to allow girls in the Vocational Agriculture program; working the land; the crops; the exhibits she made for the Danbury Fair; and the challenges of farm ownership in the 21st century.

This hard covered, 87-page book includes 9 photographs and an index.