A Farm Dies Once a Year
A Memoir
New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2014.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 258 pages ; 22 cm
"An intimate, gorgeously observed memoir about family and farming that forms a powerful lesson in the hard-earned risks that make life worth living. The summer he was thirty-one, Arlo Crawford returned home for the summer harvest at New Morning Farm--seventy-five acres tucked in a hollow in south-central Pennsylvania where his parents had been growing organic vegetables for almost forty years. Like many summers before, Arlo returned to the family farm's familiar rhythms--rise, eat, bend, pick, sort, sweat, sleep. But this time he was also there to change his direction, like his father years ago. In the 1970s, well before the explosion of the farm-to-table and slow food movement, Arlo's father, Jim, left behind law school and Vietnam, and decided to give farming a try. Arlo's return also prompts a re-examination of a past tragedy: the murder of a neighboring farmer twenty years before. A chronicle of one full season on a farm, with all its small triumphs and inevitable setbacks, A Farm Dies Once a Year is a meditation on work--the true nature of it, and on taking pride in it--and a son's reckoning with a father's legacy. Above all, it is a striking portrait of how one man builds, sows, and harvests his way into a new understanding of the risks necessary to a life well-lived"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
Crawford, Arlo.
Crawford, Arlo -- Family.
New Morning Farm (Firm)
Farmers -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
Family farms -- Pennsylvania.
Fathers and sons -- Pennsylvania.
Farm life -- Pennsylvania.
Work -- Philosophy.
Career changes -- Case studies.
Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs.
Crawford, Arlo.
Crawford, Arlo -- Family.
New Morning Farm (Firm)
Farmers -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
Family farms -- Pennsylvania.
Fathers and sons -- Pennsylvania.
Farm life -- Pennsylvania.
Work -- Philosophy.
Career changes -- Case studies.
Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs.
ISBN:
9780805098167 (hbk.)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Crawford, Arlo | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |