There’s a Porcupine in My Outhouse: Misadventures of a Mountain Man Wannabe (Capital Discovery)
In this funny, honest, personal “natural history,” Michael Tougias describes his evolution from hapless flatlander into acclaimed outdoor writer. Aching to become a real mountain man, he buys a remote mountaintop cabin only to find that misadventure follows calamity in his encounters with wildlife, the locals, and nature. In There’s a Porcupine in My Outhouse, Tougias reveals his …
Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting is Dorcas Smucker’s brand new chronicle of family life with six fast-growing up kids. Downstairs the Queen Is Knitting follows Dorcas’ two earlier and beloved collections, “Upstairs the Peasants Are Revolting” and “Ordinary Days.” The kids are a bit older now, and Dorcas and Paul’s marriage is longer and deeper. But Dorcas …
Growing Up in a Land Called Egypt: A Southern Illinois Family Biography (Shawnee Books)
In Growing Up in a Land Called Egypt: A Southern Illinois Family Biography,author Cleo Caraway fondly recalls how she and her siblings came of age on the family farm in the 1930s and 1940s. Like many others, the Caraways were affected by the economic hardships of the Great Depression, but Cleo’s parents strived to shelter her and her …
Bob Artley’s Memories of a Former Kid: Once Upon a Time on the Family Farm (Country Life)
A sampler of crowd-pleasers from A Prairie Home Companion: four “News from Lake Wobegon” monologues, “commercials” for Bertha’s Kitty Boutique and the Fearmonger’s Shoppe, and great music. All selections are from original live radio broadcasts.Contents:World Theater, Here We Come!Powdermilk BiscuitsThe Family RadioBertha’s Kitty BoutiqueLifestyle WaltzFearmonger’s ShoppeAs We Get OlderJason’s SongDave’s HarmonicaPorch SongNews from Lake WobegonBallad …
Listening to the Land: Stories from the Cacapon and Lost River Valley
The Cacapon and Lost Rivers are located in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia’s eastern panhandle. Well loved by paddlers and anglers, these American Heritage Rivers are surrounded by a lush valley of wildlife and flora that is part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.Although still rural and mostly forested, development and land fragmentation in the Cacapon and Lost …
Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farm. Today. That’ll test any mama’s strength. Dorcas Smucker and her brood live out their days in full view in this collection of musings—picking blueberries while watching for bears, hoping for angels driving off the nearby freeway, moving into the “thousand-story house.” Then there was the four-week road trip, …
A new edition of longtime farmer Keith Stewart’s deeply personal and highly acclaimed book on the hows and whys of running a small organic farm in 21st century Americaupdated with five new essays, a foreword by Deborah Madison, and gorgeous new woodcuts by Flavia BacarellaKeith Stewart, already in his early forties and discontent with New York’s corporate grind, …
