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“Growing up on a farm taught me everything I needed to know. I can say this is true now at 99 years old. I learned about every discipline there is –from physics to hydrology, to electrical, to mechanical, to environmental, weather, atmospheric, animal husbandry. Teamwork is basic to farming.”

LAND BELOW, SKY ABOVE:

An Oral History of Stanley Clifford Henjum I
BOOK ONE: Roots, 1921-1935

By Clifford Henjum and Cameron Vanderscoff

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Print Book

  • Hardcover book with Dust Jacket
  • 172 pages, featuring over 70 black & white and color images
  • Each photo digitized for archival records and restoration
  • 8″X10″ inches landscape orientation
  • Premium photo paper
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“Growing up on a farm taught me everything I needed to know. I can say this is true now at 99 years old. I learned about every discipline there is –from physics to hydrology, to electrical, to mechanical, to environmental, weather, atmospheric, animal husbandry. Teamwork is basic to farming.”

LAND BELOW, SKY ABOVE:

An Oral History of Stanley Clifford Henjum I
BOOK ONE: Roots, 1921-1935

By Clifford Henjum and Cameron Vanderscoff

Features

eBook
Print Book

  • Hardcover book with Dust Jacket
  • 172 pages, featuring over 70 black & white and color images
  • 8″X10″ inches landscape orientation
  • Premium quality paper
Contact us for Book Information

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DESCRIPTION

Land Below, Sky Above–Roots, 1921-1935 is the first installment of the 102-year oral history of Stanley Clifford Henjum I, exploring his early years 1921-1935 growing up on the family farm through the Depression and Dust Bowl.  The full book series will trace Mr. Henjum’s remarkable 100 year life story, from his beginnings as a farmboy in rural Minnesota to his career in service of his country in WW2, then as an aerospace engineer in the space and defense industries, and as a son and family man throughout.  We see Mr. Henjum as not just an individual, but as part of a long generational story of his family stretching from Norway, where his grandparents immigrated from, to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren today.
 
About BOOK ONE 
This first installment, Book One: Roots, 1921-1935 covers Clifford Henjum’s young years on the farm. Through stories and images, this book traces his early years growing up on the family farm and attending a one-room schoolhouse  through eighth grade. He experienced firsthand the transition from horse-drawn plows to gasoline-powered tractors, and from gas lamps and wood stoves to electricity. It gives a historical look at farming life — from work to faith to play — during the 20’s to the 30’s and the Depression and the Dust Bowl.

Author Clifford Henjum celebrated the publication of this book in 2021 at his 100th Birthday event. The interviews for the series were conducted with Clifford Henjum over multiple sessions with oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff.

COMING SOON
BOOK THREE: The World War II Years

With World War II underway in Europe and the Pacific, Clifford would join the Navy and be selected to be trained in the (then) new and secret technology of radar. In the Battle of Okinawa he would put this radar to the test, guiding the ship through dense camouflage smoke and air attack into the harbor.

JUST RELEASED ! BOOK TWO: 1935-1943

The second book in the series, 1935-1943, begins with Mr. Henjum’s high school years and college years.  His young farm life years provided great skills and a sense of deep responsibility learned from his daily mentors — his parents and siblings —  to excel at high school and college. Just as he graduated high school in 1939 and was starting at St. Olaf College, the war in Europe accelerated. At St. Olaf, he would enlist in the Navy and begin Officer’s Training.  

DESCRIPTION

Land Below, Sky Above–Roots, 1921-1935 is the first installment of the oral history of Stanley Clifford Henjum I, exploring his early years 1921-1935 growing up on the family farm through the Depression and Dust Bowl.  The full book series will trace Mr. Henjum’s remarkable 100 year life story, from his beginnings as a farmboy in rural Minnesota to his career in service of his country in WW2, then as an aerospace engineer in the space and defense industries, and as a son and family man throughout.  We see Mr. Henjum as not just an individual, but as part of a long generational story of his family stretching from Norway, where his grandparents immigrated from, to his grandchildren and great-grandchildren today.
 
About BOOK ONE 
This first installment, Book One: Roots, 1921-1935 covers Clifford Henjum’s young years on the farm. Through stories and images, this book traces his early years growing up on the family farm and attending a one-room schoolhouse  through eighth grade. He experienced firsthand the transition from horse-drawn plows to gasoline-powered tractors, and from gas lamps and wood stoves to electricity. It gives a historical look at farming life — from work to faith to play — during the 20’s to the 30’s and the Depression and the Dust Bowl.

Author Clifford Henjum celebrated the publication of this book in 2021 at his 100th Birthday event. The interviews for the series were conducted with Clifford Henjum over multiple sessions with oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff.

COMING SOON: BOOK TWO

The second book in the series begins with Mr. Henjum’s high school years through his WW2 Navy years, 1935-1946.  Just as he graduated high school in 1939 and was starting at St. Olaf College, the war in Europe accelerated. He would later enlist in the Navy and be selected to be trained in the (then) new and secret technology of radar. In the Battle of Okinawa he would put this radar to the test, guiding the ship through dense camouflage smoke and air attack into the harbor.

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