The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
by Ben Logan introduction by Curt D. Meine
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017 Paper: 978-0-299-30904-6 | eISBN: 978-0-299-30908-4 Library of Congress Classification PS3562.O444Z469 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 977.57
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, and tested each other and themselves.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ben Logan (1920–2014) traveled as a merchant seaman and worked many years in New York as a novelist, lecturer, and writer/producer of films and television. He returned in the 1980s to Seldom Seen Farm in Wisconsin. The farm is now privately owned but has been preserved through a land trust with the Mississippi Valley Conservancy.
REVIEWS
"Ben Logan is strikingly successful in recalling his own boyhood world, a lonely ridge farm in southwestern Wisconsin. . . . He reviews his growing-up years in the 1920s and '30s less with nostalgia than with a naturalist's eye for detail, wary of the distortions of memory and sentiment." —Christian Science Monitor
"What drew me so irresistibly through The Land Remembers? . . . It's not nostalgia for my own past that [Logan] made me feel; it's nostalgia for a world he makes me wish I'd known." —New York Times Book Review
"A book to be cherished and remembered." —Publishers Weekly
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One: Genesis
1 The Land Remembers
2 Hilltop World
Part Two: Spring
3 The Awakening Land
4 Four Boys
5 The Magic Seeds
6 The Garden
7 Black Grass
8 Which Came First?
9 Scrambled Eggs for Easter
Part Three: Summer
10 First Day of Summer
11 The Big Maple Tree
12 A Place for Dreams
13 Haying
14 Tractors
15 The Fertile Land
16 Rainy Days and the Sea
17 Drouth
18 The Bees
19 Hunting for Bee Trees
20 Some of the Blowing Dust Was Gold
21 Harvest of Gold
22 Rites of Passage
23 A Day of Our Own
24 Something Hidden
25 My Brother Could See Inside Me
26 Wildflowers
27 The Hired Men
Part Four: Fall
28 A Time of Change
29 Ghosts
30 One-Room Community
31 Tom Withers
32 Corn
33 The Cat with a Right-Angle Tail
34 The Killing Frost
Part Five: Winter
35 Short Days and Yellow Lamplight
36 The Year the Corn Shredder Stayed All Winter
37 Season Within a Season
38 Blizzard
39 Promise of Change
Part Six: An Ending, A Beginning
An Ending, A Beginning
Afterword
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The Land Remembers: The Story of a Farm and Its People
by Ben Logan introduction by Curt D. Meine
University of Wisconsin Press, 2017 Paper: 978-0-299-30904-6 eISBN: 978-0-299-30908-4
This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, and tested each other and themselves.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Ben Logan (1920–2014) traveled as a merchant seaman and worked many years in New York as a novelist, lecturer, and writer/producer of films and television. He returned in the 1980s to Seldom Seen Farm in Wisconsin. The farm is now privately owned but has been preserved through a land trust with the Mississippi Valley Conservancy.
REVIEWS
"Ben Logan is strikingly successful in recalling his own boyhood world, a lonely ridge farm in southwestern Wisconsin. . . . He reviews his growing-up years in the 1920s and '30s less with nostalgia than with a naturalist's eye for detail, wary of the distortions of memory and sentiment." —Christian Science Monitor
"What drew me so irresistibly through The Land Remembers? . . . It's not nostalgia for my own past that [Logan] made me feel; it's nostalgia for a world he makes me wish I'd known." —New York Times Book Review
"A book to be cherished and remembered." —Publishers Weekly
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part One: Genesis
1 The Land Remembers
2 Hilltop World
Part Two: Spring
3 The Awakening Land
4 Four Boys
5 The Magic Seeds
6 The Garden
7 Black Grass
8 Which Came First?
9 Scrambled Eggs for Easter
Part Three: Summer
10 First Day of Summer
11 The Big Maple Tree
12 A Place for Dreams
13 Haying
14 Tractors
15 The Fertile Land
16 Rainy Days and the Sea
17 Drouth
18 The Bees
19 Hunting for Bee Trees
20 Some of the Blowing Dust Was Gold
21 Harvest of Gold
22 Rites of Passage
23 A Day of Our Own
24 Something Hidden
25 My Brother Could See Inside Me
26 Wildflowers
27 The Hired Men
Part Four: Fall
28 A Time of Change
29 Ghosts
30 One-Room Community
31 Tom Withers
32 Corn
33 The Cat with a Right-Angle Tail
34 The Killing Frost
Part Five: Winter
35 Short Days and Yellow Lamplight
36 The Year the Corn Shredder Stayed All Winter
37 Season Within a Season
38 Blizzard
39 Promise of Change
Part Six: An Ending, A Beginning
An Ending, A Beginning
Afterword
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