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Essays on the rural experience. by Michael Hofferber Trade paperback, 142 pages. Outrider Books, 2006.
Contents Chapter 1: Country Living
Morning
– Born to be Rural
-- If You Live in the Country, Wave -- The Tree Swing –
Skipping Stones
– Country Hardball – Reading the News Backwards
– Sunday Drive -- New
Nieghbors
– Pardon
My Language, It's My Boots Talkin' – Incidents in a Small
Town – Out Walking
-- Harvest
Moon Eclipse
– In the Quiet – Winter Lights
– Gone Fishing
– Family Values
Chapter 2: Animals
Uninvited
Guests – Peril
of Life With Pets – A Man
and His Dog -- We've Flown the Coop – Playing Ball -- Bird
Wars --
Strays -- Night
Life -- Country Music -- Roadkill
-- Livestock Getaways
– The
Animals Within -- A Wing
and a Prayer -- Not
Far Removed -- Cow
Tipping
– A Bite Most Deadly –
Small Souls
Chapter 3: Weather
Windbreak
-- Passing Clouds
-- Keeping a Tornado Watch -- In the Hailstreak -- Dog Days of Summer
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Weather Modification -- Some Summer Days -- Cold Hardening -- The
Solstice
Sun Stands Still -- Rhymes With Weather
Chapter
4: Tools In
Praise of Older Trucks
-- Confessions of a Latter-Day Luddite -- On the Block -- Witching
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What
Logs to Burn -- Pushing Progress -- Privy to History -- Old Iron
Disease ~~ For the Love of Tractors
Chapter
5: Growth Harvest
Song -- No
Mere Coincidence
-- Parasites -- Know Your Oats – The Gardener’s
Redemption -- Raspberry
Rhapsody -- Blossoms – Grandpa's Seed
Chapter 6: Self-RelianceRural
Economics -- Campgrounds
of the Dispossessed -- Who’s Whistling? --Hippie Hoedads --
Quondam Mechanics -- Folks -- October
Leaves -- Boundary Art -- Our Place – The Porch -- Final
Harvest
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