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Morning Light: Wildflowers, Night Skies, and Other Ordinary Joys of Oregon Country Life
Barbara Drake
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Description for Morning Light: Wildflowers, Night Skies, and Other Ordinary Joys of Oregon Country Life
Paperback. In stories about subjects ranging from training herding dogs, constructing a good well, and neighbors who are careless in their target shooting, essayist Barbara Drake ruminates on rural life Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWR; BM; WND; WQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
When Barbara Drake and her husband left Portland and moved to a small farm in western Oregon’s Yamhill Valley in the late 1980s, they saw it as a temporary relocation - they would return to the city eventually. But as the couple’s experiences on the farm multiplied - training herding dogs, enlisting a pair of traveling dowsers to help them find a good well, and stargazing in a singular nighttime darkness - they decide to hang on to their rural life as long as possible.
Barbara Drake articulates the lessons she’s learned from her long stint of country living ... Read more
When Barbara Drake and her husband left Portland and moved to a small farm in western Oregon’s Yamhill Valley in the late 1980s, they saw it as a temporary relocation - they would return to the city eventually. But as the couple’s experiences on the farm multiplied - training herding dogs, enlisting a pair of traveling dowsers to help them find a good well, and stargazing in a singular nighttime darkness - they decide to hang on to their rural life as long as possible.
Barbara Drake articulates the lessons she’s learned from her long stint of country living ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870717604
SKU
V9780870717604
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Barbara Drake
Barbara Drake was born in Kansas in 1939, moved to Oregon in 1941, grew up in Coos Bay on the Oregon Coast, and earned BA and MFA degrees from the University of Oregon, USA. After teaching at Michigan State University, she returned to Oregon in 1983 to develop the new creative writing major at Linfield College, where she taught until ... Read more
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