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Common Ground

Farm Girls Candace Simar and Angela Foster

Sisters reminisce at the family farm about triumphs & trials of their immigrant forbears.

03/13/2014 | Rating NR

Common Ground

Farm Girls Candace Simar and Angela Foster

Season 5 Episode 19 | 26m 52sVideo has Closed Captions

Sisters reminisce at the family farm about triumphs & trials of their immigrant forbears.

Candace Simar and Angela Foster walk viewers around the farm and the nearby graveyard to tell a remarkable story that will strike a chord with many who are descended from immigrants. They published the memoir “Farm Girls.” Simar has written a string of historical novels set in northern MN. Foster received the Carol Bly Award in Creative Nonfiction from Bemidji State University.

03/13/2014 | Rating NR

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Common Ground is a local public television program presented by Lakeland PBS

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Common Ground

Farm Girls Candace Simar and Angela Foster

Season 5 Episode 19 | 26m 52sVideo has Closed Captions

Candace Simar and Angela Foster walk viewers around the farm and the nearby graveyard to tell a remarkable story that will strike a chord with many who are descended from immigrants. They published the memoir “Farm Girls.” Simar has written a string of historical novels set in northern MN. Foster received the Carol Bly Award in Creative Nonfiction from Bemidji State University.

03/13/2014 | Rating NR

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