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Harvest of Bittersweet by Patricia Penton Leimbach w/ dust jacket
Harvest of Bittersweet by Patricia Penton Leimbach
Hard Cover w/DJ
196 pages
Copyright 1987
CONTENTS
Forewordxi
Spring
Meadow Ghosts3
Manual Training5
Toad and Me7
Mountain Mama9
Conflagration Convocation11
Rugby Park13
Maggie14
By the Book16
Just East of West19
Conservatism-Upper- or Lowercase21
Eye of the Beholder22
Refrigerator Trauma23
Annual Hoedown25
Litany for a Church Luncheon27
Auction Appraisal28
Summer
Port of Call33
Blarney from the Light foot Lads35
01' Man River36
Actions Speak Louder38
Six-Thirty Love39
Fruit of the Bush41
Hang Your Clothes on a Hickory Limb43
Tree Houses 45
Mistaken Identity46
Brake for Librarians!48
Corn, Beans, and Bedlam 50
Amazing Grace52
Disorientation54
Banner Performance56
Autumn
Meanwhile in Ithaca 61
Fledging63
Beyond Valium65
Did Ya Get the Picture?66
Wish You Were Here68
End o' Way Ant69
In Promotion of the General Welfare71
They Also Serve73
Celebration of a Life74
Room at the Inn76
Son of the Middle Border 78
Hard Scrabble80
Soft Touch81
Winter
Sneak Play87
"The Stars Are Brightly Shining" 89
Coming to Terms91
Anatomy of an Obsession92
Twenty-Twenty Hindsight94
Centennial House96
Cost Accounting98
Roots99
Ex Libris!101
The Winter of '78103
Diaspora104
Transplantation106
Thimble Therapy108
Spring
Blue Denim Diary113
Fiscal Insecurity115
Green Pleas 116
Oldie but Goodie118
Season of the Lemmings120
Scarf Tossing121
Sic Transit Gloria122
Parlor Maid124
Semantics Antics126
Dingdong Bell Tone127
Geography Lesson-Updated129
A Case of Character131
Summer
High on the Vine135
Lomin' Up Roses136
Return to Eaglesmere138
Major Purchase in Minor Key140
Low-Level Summit142
Joy Is a Summer Puppy145
Dr. Elsie146
Weather Watch148
Sweet Slice of August150
Another Dream Fulfilled151
Step Right Up152
Summer Doldrums 154
Autumn
Porch Sitting159
Vigil161
Requiem162
Compensation164
At Liberty165
Ground Cover166
Gone Fishin' 168
Next to Godliness169
Harvest Home171
Worthy News172
Winter
Bazaar177
Joy to the World178
Snow "Ball"180
Backwater182
Retrospective183
Rocky Mountain High185
Sellers' Market186
Modern Agrarian188
Christening Dress190
Green Beer and Good Cheer191
Epitaph for Minnie 193
In Memoriam195
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
From End o' Way, the Leimbach family's sprawling grain and vegetable farm near Vermilion, Ohio, comes this wonderful new collection of essays celebrating the joys and trials of farm living.
Drawing on her experiences as a longtime farm wife as well as a traveling speaker, mother, and active citizen, Patricia Leimbach writes with homespun humor, introspection, and unmistakable enthusiasm about everyday life in a small community.
Harvest of Bittersweet represents two years -eight seasons-of her middle age, a time during which she became a grandmother and lost a son. Her subjects include the mid-August bedlam of a pick-your-own operation; the perennial comedy played out between wife and parts man at the farm implement store; hosting the annual church picnic; meditations on a house auction; the peculiar romance of fruits and vegetables for one who has been intimately involved with them for a lifetime; how to wallpaper a room with your spouse and still stay married; the magic of a river valley in a heavy snowfall; the hospital vigil preceding a son's death. A number of the essays relay impressions of places and farm people Leimbach has visited on the speaking circuit, from a tumbleweed town in western Kansas to The Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. Whatever her topic, Patricia Leimbach's bittersweet, often irreverent descriptions reveal a quiet pride and profound joy in country life.
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