An American HomeplaceIn the tradition of Wendell Berry and John McPhee, Donald McCaig wites with a powerful sense of place, and of history of Virginia's Highland County, in An American Homeplace. On the fast track in the New York advertising world, McCaig gave it all up to move to a ramshackle farm in Virginia's upper Cowpasture River Valley. Enhanced by the author's evident love for his land and for the stories it has to tell, An American Homeplace is an inviting combination of personal memoir and narrative history. |
Contents
AN AMERICAN HOMEPLACE | 3 |
Dog Hunting | 108 |
Making Enemies | 133 |
The Best Four Days in Highland County | 166 |
THE LAND STEWARDS | 183 |
Acknowledgments | 227 |
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