Elephant Speak: A Devoted Keeper's Life Among the Herd Interior Layout

Portrait of young Roger Henneous. (Personal photo, 1945)
sun, he hurried across the farm yard toward the house where
his mother waited with a hot iron skillet to begin breakfast.
As children of the Great Depression, Roger and his younger
sister Virginia learned early the value of gainful employment
and the obligation they owed the family to do their share.
Leonard and Myra Henneous were rarely idle and expected
the same of their children. Roger’s introduction to chores
began with gathering eggs and stacking dried corn cobs for use
as fuel in the kitchen stove. By the time he entered first grade,
he was in the barn before daylight helping his dad milk cows.
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