Back to the land: academe, the agrarian ideal, and a sense of place / Brooks Blevins. From fields without dreams / Victor Davis Hanson -- /dt Addicted to work / Linda Hasselstrom -- From "The way the country lies" / Douglas Bauer -- From Deep River: a memoir of a Missouri farm / David Hamilton -- Planes, trains and automobiles: the machine in the garden in Ames station / Robert J. Higgs. -- Becoming / Mary Clearman Blew -- Holding ground / Linda Elizabeth Peterson -- The appraisal / John Hildebrand -- In withered fields / Ribert T. Rhode -- Pulling things back down toe earth / Michael Martone -- Reading on the sky / Ron Giles -- Geoffrey Chaucer's ploughman and the nobility of toil / Michael G. Cornelious -- A kindred spirit moving: the rural ethos of Byron Herbert Reece, Wendell Berry, and James Agee / Jim Clark -- Fingers that bend: a poetics / Alice Templeton -- The dance is over / Candace Rowe -- Cultivating Georgic / Laura Sayre -- "Get caught up, work hard." Impossible inevitabilities in the world of farmers and academics / Max G. Geier -- Farming Aesthetic / Starla Stensaas -- One foot in each world / Melissa Walker -- On being an ""objective" farmer / Frederick L Kirschenmann -- The economics of country values / Dana Hoag -- A letter from the periphery / Ted Kooser -- Growing young minds / Jim Heynen -- The musing of an Iowa farm boy / Jeffrey A. Kaufmann -- The starch ad litmus test / James F. Evants -- Those who do must also teach / Glenn Harris -- From "A native hill" / Wendell Berry -- Other places / William Conlogue -- From Indiana to Kagawa, from tomatoes ripe to oranges sweet / Wendy Jones Nakanishi -- What Mother Goose knew / Carol Lundberg -- Back to the land: academe, the agrarian ideal, and a sense of place / Brooks Blevins.
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