Leaves for the Raking - Couverture souple

Swain, Henry

 
9781403329462: Leaves for the Raking
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 140332946X ISBN 13 : 9781403329462
Editeur : AuthorHouse, 2003

Synopsis

The front cover shows the author in resting mode during the annual ritual of leaf raking on his Brown County, Indiana homestead. In this book he rakes together some of the leaves of his imagination, which have fallen over the years onto the printed page. His winter season is near at hand, and he wishes to gather the leaves before the first killing frost, lest the winter winds blow them beyond his last effort of recall.Like the raked leaves of autumn, this book is a gathering of parts. It is part autobiography, part history, some true stories, and some with exaggerations. There are moments of marginal wit, country observations, and a little poetry added for seasoning.The author has stacked these random parts into chapters for the holding, much the way he stacks his firewood between two trees to be seasoned for next year's burning. The reader can take a stick of wood from the pile, throw it on the fire, and then read the smoke to find the meaning.If the smoke is properly read, the author hopes the reader may also be warmed in the process. He also hopes the contents of the chapters have been properly seasoned and are ready for consumption.

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Biographie de l'auteur

The author, a lifetime pacifist,served four years during World War II in camps for conscientious objectors,fighting forest fires in western states. Conscientious objectors received nocompensation for the work they performed.His boyhood was spent on a smallfarm in middle Indiana. His parents and ancestors were of Quaker heritage. Hishome was within sight of the Quaker meeting house,which he attended.The first chapter of his bookreflects how this environment and the Great Depression shaped his life.The remaining chapters follow amove, with his wife, to Brown County, Indiana in l947. They used all of their$600 savings to purchase forty acres of woods and pasture with a stream runningthough it.They chose the place where theywanted to live. How to make a living was a secondary consideration. They tookthat uncertainty as a dare. Fifty-six years and five daughters later, theybelieve it was a dare worth taking.He found he had a gift fordesigning and building homes and; fifty-three are still standing at the time ofhis retirement.Brown County is a mix of factors,which make it unique. Its small population, 16,000, and only one incorporatedvillage, make it an essentially rural community. It is also a bedroom communitywith half the workforce commuting to jobs outside the county.Brown County state park andnational forests, comprising half the county, attract several million touristseach year. Brown County residents live in a time zone all their own. Somewherein the county's past history a time-slippagefactor occurred. It has never fully recovered.It is from this mix ofingredients that the author finds his stories and observations. Someone hasquoted him as having said, "It's a great place to live if you can stand it."

Présentation de l'éditeur

The front cover shows the author in resting mode during the annual ritual of leaf raking on his Brown County, Indiana homestead. In this book he rakes together some of the leaves of his imagination, which have fallen over the years onto the printed page. His winter season is near at hand, and he wishes to gather the leaves before the first killing frost, lest the winter winds blow them beyond his last effort of recall.Like the raked leaves of autumn, this book is a gathering of parts. It is part autobiography, part history, some true stories, and some with exaggerations. There are moments of marginal wit, country observations, and a little poetry added for seasoning.The author has stacked these random parts into chapters for the holding, much the way he stacks his firewood between two trees to be seasoned for next year's burning. The reader can take a stick of wood from the pile, throw it on the fire, and then read the smoke to find the meaning.If the smoke is properly read, the author hopes the reader may also be warmed in the process. He also hopes the contents of the chapters have been properly seasoned and are ready for consumption.

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Éditeur
AuthorHouse
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
140332946X
ISBN 13 
9781403329462
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
212
Coordonnées du fabricant
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