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Author Ureneck, Lou.

Title Cabin : two brothers, a dream, and five acres in Maine / Lou Ureneck.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Viking, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  974.1 URENECK    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Biographies  B URENECK    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Barney Branch - Adult Department  728.73 URE    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  728.73 URE    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  974.1 URE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Biographies  B URENECK    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  974.175 URENECK    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-URENECK, L.    Check Shelf
Description 243 pages ; 22 cm
Summary The account of a years spent building a small post-and-beam cabin in the hills of western Maine tells a deeper story about brotherly bonds, home and nature. It explores the satisfaction of building and of physical labor. Inspired by his From the Ground Up New York Times blog, this is the author's memoir about building and brotherhood. Confronted with the disappointments and knockdowns that can come in middle age-job loss, the death of his mother, a health scare, a divorce, Lou needed a project that would engage the better part of him and put him back in life's good graces. City-bound for a decade, he decided he needed to build a simple post-and-beam cabin in the woods. He bought five acres in the hills of western Maine and asked his younger brother, Paul, to help him. Twenty years earlier the brothers had built a house together. Now Lou saw working with Paul as a way to reconnect with their shared history and to rediscover his truest self. As the brothers, with the help of Paul's sons, undertake the challenging construction, nothing seems to go according to plan. But as they raise the cabin, Lou reveals his own evolving insights into the richness and complexity of family relationships, the healing power of nature, and the need to root oneself in a place one can call home.
Contents The urge to build -- Preliminaries -- Lost landscape -- Foundation -- Brothers -- The frame -- Summer work -- Responsibilities -- Thanksgiving -- Dreaming of apples.
Subject Ureneck, Lou.
Ureneck, Paul.
Country life -- Maine -- Stoneham (Town)
Vacation homes -- Maine -- Stoneham (Town)
House construction -- Maine -- Stoneham (Town)
Brothers -- Maine -- Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Personal Memoirs.
Ureneck, Lou. (OCoLC)fst01675093
Brothers. (OCoLC)fst00839665
Country life. (OCoLC)fst00881405
House construction. (OCoLC)fst00961921
Vacation homes. (OCoLC)fst01163505
Maine. (OCoLC)fst01204270
Maine -- Stoneham (Town) (OCoLC)fst01340917
Holzbau (DE-588)4025677-7
Brüderpaar (DE-588)4409875-3
Maine (DE-588)4114929-4
Ureneck, Lou.
Ureneck, Paul.
Country life -- Stoneham (Me.)
Vacation homes -- Stoneham (Me.)
House construction -- Stoneham (Me.)
Brothers -- Biography.
Topical Term BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs^FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Siblings.
Genre/Form Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Autobiographies.
ISBN 9780670022946
0670022942
9780143122081 (pbk.)
0143122088 (pbk.)
Standard No. 40019886996
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