Best Person Rural
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Best Person Rural
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Author : Noel Perrin
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 2006
Best Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
In 1963, Noel Perrin, a 35-year-old professor of English at Dartmouth College, bought an 85-acre farm in Thetford Center, Vermont. For the next forty years he spent half his time teaching, half writing, and half farming. "That this adds up to three halves I am all too aware," he said, sounding a characteristic, self-deprecating note of bittersweet amusement at the chalk on his coat, the sweat on his brow, and the mud (and worse) on his boots. "I love this farm," he wrote shortly before his death in 2004, "every acre of it. The maples, the apple trees, the cattle, the wild turkeys. I love the brick farmhouse, which I believe to be about 190 years old ... and the two barns. I love the view from the kitchen window ... and the grander view to be had if you climb Bill Hill, the farm's in-house mini-mountain. The thing that delights me most, though, is that the farm really is a farm. It produces a little food every year, and most years a little fuel as well." It also produced four volumes of essays, beginning with First Person Rural (1978). Some of Perrin's pieces are practical (how to build a stone wall), others philosophical (why to build a stone wall). One pretends to be about amateur sugar making, but it is really a metaphor for reality and illusion. Another pretends to be about the country as a retreat, but is really about the country as a place to meet the world head-on. One is a dangerous character sketch of a sow - dangerous, because as Roy Blount said after reading it, "It almost made me decide to go ahead and get pigs." In short, these essays are as good as the literature of farming gets. Best Person Rural is a harvest feast, bringing together twenty of Perrin's best-loved pieces and five previously uncollected items, including his moving "Farewell to a Thetford Farm."
First Person Rural
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Author : Noel Perrin
language : en
Publisher: John Curley & Associates
Release Date : 1979
First Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and has been published by John Curley & Associates this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Fiction categories.
Third Person Rural
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Author : Noel Perrin
language : en
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Release Date : 1999-11
Third Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and has been published by David R. Godine Publisher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11 with Gardening categories.
Essays on rural life that not only address the many how-to questions that bedevil country dwellers, but also the larger direction that life is taking on this planet. Perrin, a transplanted New Yorker and now a "real" Vermonter, candidly admits his early mistakes while giving concrete advice on matters such as what to do with maple syrup (other than put it on your pancakes), how to use a peavey, and how to replace your rototiller with a garden animal.
Survival Of Rural America
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Author : Richard E. Wood
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Release Date : 2008-03-25
Survival Of Rural America written by Richard E. Wood and has been published by University Press of Kansas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-25 with Social Science categories.
On the high plains of Kansas, the future of rural America is at stake. Small farming communities are the heart and soul of America, but it's no secret that they're under siege. Family farms are disappearing and manufacturing is outsourced. Schools close, jobs vanish, and local stores can't survive. Some communities resort to giving away land just to get people to move there. Richard Wood knows that rural communities need more than jobs or money to survive: they need to become valued again as desirable places to live. He takes a closer look at what has happened in several Kansas farming towns and shows that there is much more depth and diversity to rural life than meets the eye. Wood traveled the back roads to gather stories of people in some of the most vulnerable communities that are trying to stave off depopulation. These are not just accounts of people scrambling to survive in incipient ghost towns like Ada, but gritty success stories like Plainville, where an upscale design business ignited a revival, or Atwood, which shifted from industrial recruitment to home-grown entrepreneurship. Unlike Thomas Frank, whose What's the Matter with Kansas? used the state as a political yardstick, Wood sees it reflecting major economic and population trends throughout the world. Looking at projects as small as community medical clinics or plans for vast buffalo grassland parks, he also sees a robust future for small-town pioneers, folks who are betting their-and rural America's-future on such things as alternative energy (think "ethanol"), sustainable natural agriculture, tourism, and the enduring appeal of rural life to outsiders. With dozens of photos that bring rural America to life, Wood provides an inside look at what really makes this country tick-and at some of the developments that may turn the tide against what seemed an inevitable decline. Although the odds are stacked against rural recovery, the small victories that Wood shows us hold the promise that transformation and revival may yet stave off the final bitter harvest.
Third Person Rural
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Author : Noel Perrin
language : en
Publisher: Viking Press
Release Date : 1985
Third Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and has been published by Viking Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Nature categories.
Essays discuss farm life, porcupines, potatoes, the birth of a calf, land taxes, home improvements, maple syrup production, wildflowers, and horses
Last Person Rural
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Author : Noel Perrin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Last Person Rural written by Noel Perrin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
Essays discuss rural life, county fairs, stone walls, acid rain, mulching, barns, ponds, pollution, and progress
National Live Stock Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
National Live Stock Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with Livestock categories.
A Good Life For More People
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Author : United States. Department of Agriculture
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
A Good Life For More People written by United States. Department of Agriculture and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Agriculture categories.
Creating A Person Centered Library
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Author : Elizabeth A. Wahler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-12-28
Creating A Person Centered Library written by Elizabeth A. Wahler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-28 with Social Science categories.
Creating a Person-Centered Library provides a comprehensive overview of various services, programs, and collaborations to help libraries serve high-needs patrons as well as strategies for supporting staff working with these individuals. While public libraries are struggling to address growing numbers of high-needs patrons experiencing homelessness, food insecurity, mental health problems, substance abuse, and poverty-related needs, this book will help librarians build or contribute to library services that will best address patrons' psychosocial needs. The authors, experienced in both library and social work, begin by providing an overview of patrons' psychosocial needs, structural and societal reasons for the shift in these needs, and how these changes impact libraries and library staff. Chapters focus on best practices for libraries providing person-centered services and share lessons learned, including information about special considerations for certain patron populations that might be served by individual libraries. The book concludes with information about how library organizations can support public library staff. Librarians and library students who are concerned about both patrons and library staff will find the practical advice in this book invaluable.
The Rural Voter
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Author : Nicholas F. Jacobs
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-11-21
The Rural Voter written by Nicholas F. Jacobs and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-21 with Political Science categories.
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ballot, has plummeted throughout the countryside, and the entire governing system is threatened by one-party dominance. After Donald Trump’s surprising victories throughout rural America, pundits and journalists went searching for answers, popping into roadside diners and opining from afar. Rural Americans are supposedly bigots, culturally backward, lazy, scared of the future, and radical. But is it that simple? Is the country splintering between two very different Americas—one rural, one urban? This pathbreaking book pinpoints forces behind the rise of the “rural voter”—a new political identity that combines a deeply felt sense of place with an increasingly nationalized set of concerns. Combining a historical perspective with the largest-ever national survey of rural voters, Nicholas F. Jacobs and Daniel M. Shea uncover how this overwhelmingly crucial voting bloc emerged and how it has roiled American politics. They show how perceptions of economic and social change, racial anxieties, and a traditional way of life under assault have converged into a belief in rural uniqueness and separateness. Rural America believes it rises and falls together, and that the Democratic Party stands in the way. An unparalleled exploration of rural partisanship, this book offers a timely warning that the chasm separating urban and rural Americans cannot be papered over with policies or rhetoric. Instead, The Rural Voter shows how this division is the latest chapter in the enduring conflict over American identity.