The book contains letters written to The Farmer's Wife magazine in 1922 saying why or why not they would want their daughters to marry a farmer. The reasons were interesting and still relevant today. There were only a few letters that had the slang of those days that reminded me of the times in which the letters were written. A lot of the women also had experience living in both the city and the farm life and though the city women look down on them, the women pity the city women for not having the equal treatment in marriage or the community that they have, as well as the freedom of the pocketbook. Morality of farm life was brought up often and compared to the "entertainment" in the city.
The book does include a CD of templates for quilt blocks. ( )

I like all block dictionaries. I like them because I can always find a new block and the new blocks starts me on a fun creative spiral. [b:The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt: 55 Letters and the 111 Blocks they Inspired|6878287|The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt 55 Letters and the 111 Blocks they Inspired|Laurie Aaron Hird|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1348820062s/6878287.jpg|7095579] is no exception, but I have a few beefs with this book. The idea is that you make these blocks with templates. The crazy way I have heard of people using templates through this project (which has taken hold in the Modern Quilt community) is frightening. The problem I have is that there are no rotary cutting instructions (though you can buy an EQ6 CD with all the patterns on it). In this day and age, I find that to be crazy as well.

There are also no line drawings of the blocks. People need to be able to see the pieces without the colors the author chooses.