Forty Acres and a Fool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Acres and a Fool write by Roger Welsch. This book was released on 2006. Forty Acres and a Fool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Forty Acres and a Fool
Forty Acres and a Fool - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Acres and a Fool write by Roger Welsch. This book was released on 2006-10-01. Forty Acres and a Fool available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At a time when so much manliness is played out on computer keyboards and TV or videogame remote controls, it takes a certain degree of grit and guts and plain pigheadedness to pull up stakes and move to the country. For those brave souls, the backward-looking gentleman farmers of our fast-forward-looking age, Roger Welsch has a few choice words. To homestead in the Old West, the saying went, all you needed was forty acres and a mule. For the 21st century, Welsch contends that instead of a beast of burden one only needs the stubbornness of being a fool. In several hilarious essays, Welsch presents a guy's guide to leaving modern miracles behind and embracing productive Ludditism. Made famous by his laconic pieces on CBS Sunday Morning (while wearing his signature overalls), Welsch takes on new subjects, and even elaborates the principles of feng shui for the farmhouse, barn, and farmyard. He draws on a lifetime's worth of experience to counsel prospective migrants to rural America on what precisely not to do. Learn from the mistakes of a master, and laugh harder than you thought possible while doing it. Roger Welsch is in fine fettle in Forty Acres and a Fool, a light-hearted look at rural upstarts that puts the delights of country living-and the occasional advantages of urban life-into rare perspective.
Forty Acres
Forty Acres - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Acres write by Gerard F. Murrin. This book was released on 2010. Forty Acres available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This spellbinding tale, filled with engaging characters, heroes and villains alike, confronts the land-use crisis in America. With chilling affect, this story foreshadows the look and feel of the mid-21st-century given the continued loss of land to commercial and residential development. In Murrin's fictional America, the federal government enacts radical legislation in an attempt to control land-use practices, resulting in a political landscape that is unrecognizable. Local power brokers quickly learn to manipulate the new system, outlawing dissension groups while continuing to devour open space at an alarming rate. However, despite being driven underground, the tiny Land Preservation Society (LPS) remains determined to save as many acres as they can. As Tom Sanders struggles to keep the LPS together, he pins his last hope on holding the line at Meador Farms, rumored to be an ancient Native American burial ground, making it a possible deterrence to development. Tom is in for the race of his life, as he desperately tries to save his beloved property.
Forty Acres and a Goat
Forty Acres and a Goat - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Forty Acres and a Goat write by Will D. Campbell. This book was released on 2018-04-17. Forty Acres and a Goat available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Forty Acres and a Goat, Will D. Campbell (1924–2013) picks up where the award-winning Brother to a Dragonfly leaves off, accounting his adventures during the tumultuous civil rights era. As he navigates through the explosive 1960s, including pivotal moments like the integration of Little Rock High School and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Brother Will finds his faith challenged. To further complicate matters, a series of jobs did not pan out as expected—pastorate in Louisiana, director of religious life at the University of Mississippi, and with the National Council of Churches—leaving Brother Will “with a call but no steeple.” In an effort to find his place as a preacher, he moves his family to a farm in rural Tennessee and fashions his own unique style of ministry and a maverick relationship with God, land, and all his fellow pilgrims.
The Tractor in the Haystack
The Tractor in the Haystack - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Tractor in the Haystack write by Scott Garvey. This book was released on . The Tractor in the Haystack available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For the aficionado of farm equipment, or the scion of an old farming family nostalgic for the old days, or the grown-up boy who still loves a classic piece of old-time machinery, the vintage tractor can be a thrilling find like no other. This book tells dozens of stories of such discoveries, of the treasured old tractor parked in a shed since 1927, of the pristine model unearthed at an estate sale, of the broken-down old beauty stashed in a barn where generations of children have made their secret hideaways. These are the classic tractors that are often as hard to find as a needle in a haystack—but far more fun to discover, as all of these delightful stories make abundantly clear.
