Sisters of the soil: West Virginia land girls on the World War II farm front
By Patricia H. Wilkins
Contents: War Gardens; "Food will win the war" Victory Gardens: "Backyard War" Eleanor Roosevelt: "Woman Land Army" "City-bred Farmerettes" join the Land Army "Strictly City" pioneers harvest war crops West Virginia girls "Pitch in and help" Advance Guard: Cabell County Coeds The Camp Cook and her land girls Love, G.I. Jean: Letters from camp Hazel Cole and the Grafton girls Peach Thinners and Cherry Pickers 100 Acres of Dill: Morgantown Gang Camp Elyria: End O'Way farm Camp Markley: Victory Farm Volunteers Camp Huron: Gillmore Manor Gillmore Manore: Big Sisters Camp Mil-Bur: Bean Brigade Tobacco Strippers and Snap-bean Pickers Farmerettes flock home In Memory of Sisters.
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