| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
258 pages ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"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 mediation 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. |
| Local Note |
AVONNFIC |
| Subject |
Crawford, Arlo.
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Crawford, Arlo -- Family.
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Farmers -- Pennsylvania -- Biography.
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Family farms -- Pennsylvania.
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Fathers and sons -- Pennsylvania.
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New Morning Farm (Firm)
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Farm life -- Pennsylvania.
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Work -- Philosophy.
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Pennsylvania -- Social life and customs.
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Career changes -- Case studies.
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| ISBN |
9780805098167 (hbk.) |
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080509816X (hbk.) |
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9780805098174 (electronic book) |
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