Description
In the summer of 1990, creator Charles Gaines and his artist wife, Patricia, bought 160 acres of wild land on the northeast coast of Nova Scotia. They believed they were simply buying a remote getaway spot, but within a couple of months a more complex dream for the property developed. By midwinter, they had begun to see the land as a place where Circle of relatives intimacy might be reclaimed, as a home that might heal their recently battered marriage, and as a chance to take on a big, risky, long-term project instead of settling into the caution and gradual losses of middle-class middle age. Enlisting their children and their daughter’s carpenter boyfriend, they made up our minds to build a cabin on the land the following summer, to build it with their own hands, as a Circle of relatives venture.
A Circle of relatives Place gracefully mixes a narrative of that summer’s from time to time harrowing, from time to time hilarious, from time to time heartbreaking events with passages of the Circle of relatives’s history that show its members as real people and dramatize what is at stake for each and every of them in Nova Scotia. Gaines describes the process of building a cabin whilst living in tents without electricity or running water, and the pleasures and limitations of a life so simplified that a week’s biggest social event is a bonfire. He draws a deft portrait of the small, generous, hearth-centered Acadian community of farmers and lobster fishermen surrounding their land, and traces the history of that land to its original French-Acadian owner. And he tracks the mood of his Circle of relatives through the long, difficult summer, from initial enthusiasm to near mutiny, and after all to exhilaration and deep satisfaction at having built something to be able to last, having rebuilt a Circle of relatives in the process.
A Circle of relatives Place gracefully mixes a narrative of that summer’s from time to time harrowing, from time to time hilarious, from time to time heartbreaking events with passages of the Circle of relatives’s history that show its members as real people and dramatize what is at stake for each and every of them in Nova Scotia. Gaines describes the process of building a cabin whilst living in tents without electricity or running water, and the pleasures and limitations of a life so simplified that a week’s biggest social event is a bonfire. He draws a deft portrait of the small, generous, hearth-centered Acadian community of farmers and lobster fishermen surrounding their land, and traces the history of that land to its original French-Acadian owner. And he tracks the mood of his Circle of relatives through the long, difficult summer, from initial enthusiasm to near mutiny, and after all to exhilaration and deep satisfaction at having built something to be able to last, having rebuilt a Circle of relatives in the process.
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