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Essays on the rural experience. by Michael Hofferber Trade paperback, 142 pages. Outrider Books, 2006.
Contents Chapter 1: Country Living
In the
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 – A Fist Full of Memories -- Out Walking
-- Listen ~~ Harvest
Moon Eclipse
– Silent Sentinel of Crop Protection – In the Quiet – Winter Lights
– Midwinter Delusions ~~ Gone Fishing
– A Winter's Sleep -- 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 -- The
Dog Days of Summer
--
Weather Modification -- Equinox
-- Some
Summer Days -- Cold Hardening -- The
Solstice
Sun Stands Still -- Dark of Winter -- Rhymes With Weather
Chapter
4: Tools In
Praise of Older Trucks
-- Confessions of a Latter-Day Luddite -- On the Block -- Witching
--
What
Logs to Burn -- Pushing Progress -- Privy to History -- Solar Reflections -- Scanning for News -- Old Iron
Disease -- For the Love of Tractors -- Hitched to History
Chapter
5: Growth Harvest
Song -- No
Mere Coincidence
-- Parasites -- The
Natural -- 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 --
Moving
Away -- The
Porch -- Final
Harvest
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