Country Living Barefoot Summers
Reflections on Home, Family, and Simple Pleasures
New York : Hearst Books, [2005]
Format: Book
Description: xv, 208 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Faith Andrews Bedford, a favorite with Country Living's readers, captures the magic of summer, childhood, and home in a moving collection of essays.
For years, the readers of Country Living have adored Faith Andrews Bedford's evocative stories, featured in her beloved bi-monthly column, "Kids in the Country." This enchanting collection invites everyone to join Bedford as she movingly recaptures the modest triumphs of children, the importance of family traditions, and the simple pleasures of country life. In "Sister Dresses," Faith's mother finds three special Easter outfits "all exactly the same," delighting her daughters. "Time & a Bottle" tells of Faith's girlhood walks along the beach, where she hoped that the sea glass she collected "had come from a perfume bottle thrown into the water a century ago by an elegant lady in France." Every one of these essays explores the beauty in the ordinary and the meaning in the everyday.
For years, the readers of Country Living have adored Faith Andrews Bedford's evocative stories, featured in her beloved bi-monthly column, "Kids in the Country." This enchanting collection invites everyone to join Bedford as she movingly recaptures the modest triumphs of children, the importance of family traditions, and the simple pleasures of country life. In "Sister Dresses," Faith's mother finds three special Easter outfits "all exactly the same," delighting her daughters. "Time & a Bottle" tells of Faith's girlhood walks along the beach, where she hoped that the sea glass she collected "had come from a perfume bottle thrown into the water a century ago by an elegant lady in France." Every one of these essays explores the beauty in the ordinary and the meaning in the everyday.
Contents:
Sister dresses -- Valentines in a box -- Barefoot summers -- Carving the turkey -- A joyful noise -- Measles mumps and chickenpox -- Sweet dreams -- Time and a bottle -- Silver threads and golden needles -- The dress-up box -- The reading chair -- Passing the plate -- The snowball -- Paint by numbers -- May baskets -- Lemonade and independence -- The blue pen -- The memory box -- Summer in a seashell -- Sounds of a summer house -- Angels stars and cowboy boots -- Special occasions -- Thank you, Uncle Arthur -- Soaring of hawks -- The honor jar -- Memories in a handbag -- A light in the window -- Nesting -- Eye of the beholder -- The sweet smell of sunshine -- Truck city -- Chopsticks and pumpkin pie -- The first snow -- Let's fly a kite -- Cutting down the oak -- Camping out.
Subjects:
Bedford, Faith Andrews -- Anecdotes.
Home economics, Rural -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Country life -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Bedford, Faith Andrews -- Anecdotes.
Home economics, Rural -- United States -- Anecdotes.
Country life -- United States -- Anecdotes.
ISBN:
1588164519
UPC: 800368004517
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
LITERATURE Essays Bed | Southeast | Nonfiction | In |