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News About Gordon

Honorary Chapter FFA Degree from the University of Minnesota Crookston Collegiate FFA for preserving Farm Heritage and promoting Agricultural Literacy through literature.

Article about Gordon in the Pioneer Press. Click HERE.

Article in St. Paul Pioneer Press, "A former farm kid shares his stories of growing up in Lakeville." Click HERE
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Prologue to Farm 
Country Tales
Imagine an era
that’s diff’rent from now,
When times were not better,
but pleasing, somehow.
It’s the year 1950,
when farming was done
By Mother and Father
and Daughter and Son.

by Gordon W. Fredrickson

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Reader Views Literary Award Winners


If I Were a Farmer Awarded first place in the children – toddler to 5 category

Farm Country Halloween Awarded second place in the children – early reader (6 to 8)

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Poetry

Farm Country Moments: Poems, Pictures and Memories

Foreward to Farm Country Moments by Bill Gleed, poet and manager of the Robert Frost Farm, Derry, New Hampshire.
These poems, memories, and lovely photos capture a vanishing segment of the American landscape--the family farm.

Mark Sieve, actor, producer, director, author, and co-creator of the Renaissance Festival's vaudeville team, Puke & Snot, the longest-running two-man comedy duo in the country and a headline show at festivals and comedy clubs throughout North America since 1974. Mark's memoir, Call me Puke: a Life on the Dirt Circuit, is an entertaining and fascinating story of his rise to the top. For more information visit www.pukensnot.com
Farm Country Moments, what a sweet read--brings back a ton of memories of my five short years on the farm when I was in high school. Your attention to all the tiny but important little details of farm life is astounding. Makes me want to start reading your whole series.

Beverly Hermes, former farm kid.
As I read the pages, it is my story!

Gary Hoverson, retired dairy farmer, Freeborn County, Minnesota
Farm Country Moments: Poems, Pictures and Memories captures countless childhood memories on the family farm. Thank you for sharing and helping to preserve the memories both of hard work and fun.