In Good Hands: The Keeping of a Family Farm

Title: In Good Hands: The Keeping of a Family Farm
Author: Charles Fish
D: 1699951
ISBN: 9780374165659
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 1995
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 229
Section: History | United States | State & Local - General
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga of six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye. What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and slaughtering; the author, as a small boy, working with the men, fishing and hunting, and, later, reflecting on the issues of pleasure and work, freedom and community.