Ever had so many delectable vegetables come ripe in your garden that you didn't know which one to pick first? Well, that's the way we felt when we tried to select just one essay from Noel Perrin's wonderful book Second Person Rural to share with you. A professor at Dartmouth College and, in his own words, a "passable farmer" as well, Noel has an uncanny-and often quite humorous- insight that penetrates many of the secret rituals and foibles (his own included) of both the native and the newcomer ruralite. Hence, chapters such as "Country Codes" ' "Miniature Farming", "The Year We Really Heated With Wood", and — of course — the following selection strike resonant chords in country folk of all ages and levels of experience.
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