Stain the Water Clear: A Collection of Rural Pen and Yankee Doodlin' Columns, 1993-2002iUniverse, 13.01.2003 - 218 Seiten For years, readers of Luanne Austins Rural Pen column in the Daily News-Record have been asking for a compilation of her work. Here it is. Stain the Water Clear is a collection spanning 10 years. Her first Southern Yankee writings focused on the transplanted life of a young woman who had moved from her native New York to the South. Yankee Doodlin' continued on this theme, but expanded to family life, relationships and meditations on life. Finally, the Rural Pen pieces are those of a writer who has found her voice, addressing a range of topics, from politics to religion, to love and womens issues, to meditations on nature and spirituality .The name of the column and this book come from William Blakes Songs of Innocence: And I made a rural pen, And I staind the water clear |
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... Long Island at midnight, Sept. 14, 1978. Our two children, ages 3 and six months, were squeezed into the trucks cab with us and a few cartons of leftover chow mein (the last good Chinese food we'd eat for years). The truck looked like a ...
... Long Island at midnight, Sept. 14, 1978. Our two children, ages 3 and six months, were squeezed into the trucks cab with us and a few cartons of leftover chow mein (the last good Chinese food we'd eat for years). The truck looked like a ...
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... Long Island was not an option. We Wanted to live of the land, not for the land. For example, my mother-in-laW just sold her seven—room house on a small development lot for $160,000. Maybe that's not so bad. But her taxes, had she stayed ...
... Long Island was not an option. We Wanted to live of the land, not for the land. For example, my mother-in-laW just sold her seven—room house on a small development lot for $160,000. Maybe that's not so bad. But her taxes, had she stayed ...
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... Long Island earth had few rocks but a lot of sand in it, making it naturally loamy (they say the Island is a topsoiland-sand deposit of the Ice Age). The red clay here and rocks, rocks, rocks were a challenge to deal with. My husband ...
... Long Island earth had few rocks but a lot of sand in it, making it naturally loamy (they say the Island is a topsoiland-sand deposit of the Ice Age). The red clay here and rocks, rocks, rocks were a challenge to deal with. My husband ...
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... Long Island. Those who made their living off the Great South Bay would bring clams, crabs and lobsters to bake, boil and grill. I thought about inviting these holler folks to a clambake someday to reciprocate the cultural experience. At ...
... Long Island. Those who made their living off the Great South Bay would bring clams, crabs and lobsters to bake, boil and grill. I thought about inviting these holler folks to a clambake someday to reciprocate the cultural experience. At ...
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... Long Island, a big suburb of New York City, is such a distant memory. There's not much to miss about Long Island anymore. Not bagels or pizza or egg rolls. Most of the foods I first missed are available here now. If not, I can live ...
... Long Island, a big suburb of New York City, is such a distant memory. There's not much to miss about Long Island anymore. Not bagels or pizza or egg rolls. Most of the foods I first missed are available here now. If not, I can live ...
Inhalt
19 | |
Of Humans and Being | 51 |
Christmas | 69 |
Things We Have Passed | 87 |
Am I in Sync? | 113 |
Body Language | 145 |
Through Darkness Up to God | 175 |
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