John 14:6
I am the Way, the Truth, and the
Life. No one come to the Father except
through me. (NIV)
| Index | |
| City Boy Longs for the Farm | 1-8 |
| The Menger/Guenther Sawmill | 10-14 |
| Grandma Jonas | 16-21 |
| Dog Patch | 22-25 |
| Grandpa Jonas | 26-30 |
| Out Home | 31-33 |
| Uncle Eddie | 34-36 |
| The Cottage at Cedar Lake | 37 |
| Family Heritage | 38-42 |
| Grandma and Grandpa Cooper | 43-48 |
| My Brother Jack | 49-51 |
| My Second Home, The Mertz Farm | 52-57 |
| Threshing Oats | 58-62 |
| The Next Generation Farmers | 63 |
| My Many Illnesses | 64 |
| My Early Sex Ed | 67-70 |
| Smokey’s Hat | 71-74 |
| The Contraption | 75-76 |
| Joan at the Farm | 77-81 |
| Brother Butch on the Farm | 82–87 |
| Paper Route, Pigeons and Rabbits | 88-91 |
| The Move to North Carolina | 92-98 |
| The Restaurant Business | 99-100 |
| My I Freshman Year in High School | 101 |
| Summer on the Farm | 103-109 |
| A Full-time Farmhand | 110-114 |
| Finish High School | 115-117 |
| Back to the Mertz Farm | 118-121 |
| A Good Neighbor, Edgar Miske | 122-126 |
| High School Graduation | 127-128 |
| The Rocky Road to Farm Ownership (preview) | 129 |
John 15:12-13
My command is this; love each other as I have
loved you. Greater love has no one than this,
that he lay down his life for his friends. (NIV)
Mark 1:15
The time has come, He said. the kingdom of
God is near. Repent and believe the Good
News. (NIV)
Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and
lean not on your own understanding; in all
your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make
your paths straight. (NIV)
Proverbs 31: 30-31
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the Lord is to be
praised. Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city
gate. (NIV)
How A City Boy Became A Farmer
By: D. F. (Don) Cooper
The City Boy begins with my birth in Milwaukee Wisconsin. As unlikely as it would seems, my trips out home to my Grandma Jonas’s Homestead, planted a seed in my mind that I wanted to grow up to be a farmer as my maternal ancestors were. Beginning at my birth, through my high school graduation and my first full-time job on the Mertz farm. Many stories about my adventurous young life.