Tag: Farm history
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Sky Humour
This was an excellent read. A volume of poetry that I grabbed off the shelf randomly and read from time to time over a couple weeks. I don’t believe one should read poetry like a novel, from cover to cover, but rather it should be read one or two poems at a time slowly and… Read more
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Winesburg, Ohio
Winesburg, Ohio is a slim, deceptively simple volume full of interlinked short stories that together form an incisive portrait of early 20th century small-town American life. First published in 1919, Sherwood Anderson’s book uses a fragmented, vignette-driven structure. Meaning each one stands alone but when compiled you see how they connect up. The influence on… Read more
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That Old Ace in the Hole
Overview That Old Ace in the Hole (2002) is Annie Proulx’s panoramic, character-driven novel set in the Texas–Oklahoma Panhandle. It follows Bob Dollar, a guileless land scout employed by a corporate hog‑farming conglomerate, as he embeds himself in the fictional town of Woolybucket. Proulx makes the landscape and its people the book’s central subjects: the… Read more