Voices from the Heart of the Land: Rural Stories That Inspire Community (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299227845)

From 2001 to 2006, Richard L. Cates Jr. interviewed senior members of more than 30 families living in and around Arena township, a small community in southern Wisconsin. He asked them about growing up in rural America and their connection to a way of life that is vanishing in the twenty-first century.The result, Voices from the Heart of the Land, is a collection of reminiscences, observations, and opinions celebrating the stewardship of the land and the values of the stewards. Of course, as Cates points out, these are nothing less than "our core human values--integrity, commitment, responsibility, citizenship, self-determination, decency, kindness, love, and hope."

Author: Richard L. Cates
ISBN-10: 0299227847
ISBN-13: 9780299227845
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2008
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 8.32h x 10.74w x 0.56d