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Rough road home

Pages
260
Published
1958
Language
English

Synopsis

The “Rough Road Home” is the gripping memoir of the author, Melissa Mather Ambros, story of moving to rural Vermont with her family. They became homesteaders and raised cows for milk, cultivated beautiful gardens and grew some infamous potatoes! Excerpts from this book were featured in a series of Saturday Evening Post articles in 1958.

About the author

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Melissa Mather

Melissa Mather Ambros, was an author and documented her families' story of moving to rural Vermont, in her gripping memoir called the “Rough Road Home”. They became homesteaders and raised cows for milk, cultivated beautiful gardens and grew some infamous potatoes! Excerpts from her book were featured in a series of Saturday Evening Post articles in 1958. She was born Nov. 12, 1917, in Chicago, to Arlisle Mather Brown, an English teacher, and Alfred Bruce Brown, an electrical engineer. She...