The Land Remembers: A Story of a Farm and Its People by Ben Logan (English) Pape

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This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, and tested each other and themselves.

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This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, and tested each other and themselves.

Author Biography

Ben Logan (1920–2014) traveled as a merchant seaman and worked many years in New York as a novelist, lecturer, and writer/producer of films and television before returning in the 1980s to Seldom Seen Farm in Wisconsin. The farm is now privately owned but has been preserved through a land trust with the Mississippi Valley Conservancy.

Table of Contents

Part One: Genesis 1 The Land Remembers 2 Hilltop World Part Two: Spring 3 The Awakening Land 4 Four Boys 5 The Magic Seeds 6 The Garden 7 Black Grass 8 Which Came First? 9 Scrambled Eggs for Easter Part Three: Summer 10 First Day of Summer 11 The Big Maple Tree 12 A Place for Dreams 13 Haying 14 Tractors 15 The Fertile Land 16 Rainy Days and the Sea 17 Drouth 18 The Bees 19 Hunting for Bee Trees 20 Some of the Blowing Dust Was Gold 21 Harvest of Gold 22 Rites of Passage 23 A Day of Our Own 24 Something Hidden 25 My Brother Could See Inside Me 26 Wildflowers 27 The Hired Men Part Four: Fall 28 A Time of Change 29 Ghosts 30 One-Room Community 31 Tom Withers 32 Corn 33 The Cat with a Right-Angle Tail 34 The Killing Frost Part Five: Winter 35 Short Days and Yellow Lamplight 36 The Year the Corn Shredder Stayed All Winter 37 Season Within a Season 38 Blizzard 39 Promise of Change Part Six: An Ending, A Beginning An Ending, A Beginning Afterword

Review

"Ben Logan is strikingly successful in recalling his own boyhood world, a lonely ridge farm in southwestern Wisconsin. . . . He reviews his growing-up years in the 1920s and 30s less with nostalgia than with a naturalist's eye for detail, wary of the distortions of memory and sentiment."—Christian Science Monitor"What drew me so irresistibly through The Land Remembers? . . . It's not nostalgia for my own past that [Logan] made me feel; it's nostalgia for a world he makes me wish I'd known."—New York Times Book Review"A book that encourages the reader to listen to his own thoughts. . . . Some collective memory that says that this is all familiar, that we ourselves have experienced it."—Time"A book to be cherished and remembered."—Publishers Weekly

Review Quote

"What drew me so irresistibly through The Land Remembers? . . . It's not nostalgia for my own past that [Logan] made me feel; it's nostalgia for a world he makes me wish I'd known." --New York Times Book Review,

Promotional "Headline"

Once you have lived on the land, been a partner with its moods, secrets, and seasons, you cannot leave. The living land remembers, touching you in unguarded moments, saying, "I am here. You are a part of me."

Details ISBN0299309045 Author Ben Logan Pages 320 Publisher University of Wisconsin Press ISBN-10 0299309045 ISBN-13 9780299309046 Format Paperback Imprint University of Wisconsin Press Place of Publication Wisconsin Country of Publication United States DEWEY 977.57042092 Subtitle A Story of a Farm and Its People Short Title The Land Remembers Language English AU Release Date 2005-03-01 NZ Release Date 2005-03-01 UK Release Date 2005-03-01 Year 2017 Publication Date 2017-05-30 Audience General US Release Date 2017-05-30 We've got this

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