Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Hardcover)

~ (Author), David Hassler (Author), Robert Coles (Foreword)

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When photographer Gary Harwood first stepped onto the K. W. Zellers family farm in Hartville, Ohio, to take pictures of the Mexican migrant workers there, he did not expect to find such a strong, tightly knit community. Over the next five years, he used his camera to study the lives and work of these migrants in their northeastern Ohio home. His artful photography captures the migrants' portraits and movingly conveys their great pride in work and family, their struggles and joys. Accompanying these vibrant photographs are revealing first-person narratives written by David Hassler. The voices of the migrants and community members are eloquent testaments to the importance of the culture, the resilience of the people, and the power of the place. In photos and stories, "Growing Season" celebrates the work and play and religious, medical, familial, and communal experiences of these workers - young, old, male, female - and offers readers a success story. A part of our American landscape, these people and the dedicated, caring group of volunteers who support them teach all of us about dignity and humanity.

About the Author

Gary Harwood has been a photographer for Kent State University for more than 22 years and chief photographer since 1987.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 159 pages
• Publisher: Kent State University Press (September 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873388739
• ISBN-13: 978-0873388733
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #987,490 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rehumanizing "illegal aliens", November 5, 2006

By	Preston C. Enright (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (Paperback)

This wonderful book is so needed in this era of immigrant-bashing.
I discovered "Growing Season" after a segment of it was excerpted in "The Sun" magazine. It's such a pleasure to hear the stories of people from Latin America and those who work with them, and how the so-called "problem" or "invasion" of immigrants has actually provided benefits for countless people on both sides of the border.
Citizens of the US, the world's superpower, should also keep in mind that it is policies that emanate from Wall Street and the Pentagon that have forced so many people to come here in the first place. We owe our Latin American brothers and sisters a warm welcome, even an apology, for the generations of exploiting their labor and resources (see books like "The Annexation of Mexico" by John Ross or "Turning the Tide" by Noam Chomsky").
I'm going to buy an extra copy of this book and send it to Representative Tom Tancredo, one of this nation's leading demagogues on the issue of immigration.