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Chargement... Goodbye to Poplarhaven: Recollections of a Utah Boyhoodpar Edward A. Geary
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"'Nothing is nicer,' Grandpa used to say, 'than a full barn and a full granary.' He might have said a full cellar too, for the rows of bottled fruit loomed on the shelves in the dim light, and the aroma of apples filled the nostrils. We could sit down at the dinner table knowing where everything on it had come from, and the process by which it had been prepared. We had before us and around us tangible evidence of the interconnection of things, of tilling, and seedtime, and harvest, of process and product, work and reward. Abundance is what remained when the threshing was done and the mellow Utah autumn slid gradually into winter, abundance in the storehouse for man and beast, evidence that we reap as we have sown. And abundance in the memory which lasts long after the barn and granary are empty hulks, for sometimes we also reap where others have sown."--from chapter sixteen Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I'm 25 years younger than Geary, and my own Utah boyhood was confined to the summer months, since, as a child, I lived in Missouri during the school year, but Poplarhaven's description of life in small-town Utah really resonated with me. Geary has a remarkable ability to see (and to help his readers to see) the beauty in the humble things in rural Utah: tumbledown outbuildings, dilapidated fences, irrigation ditches, orchards, alfalfa fields, etc. I have a relief map of the Castle Valley area where Geary grew up, and it has been fun to follow along on that map as Geary describes the geographical features that helped shape his early life. When Geary describes the foibles of the people around him, I never get the feeling that he is sneering. ( )