A Journal of the Seasons on an Ozark Farm

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First published in 1956, Leonard Hall’s affectionate chronicle of the round of the seasons on a working farm within the eastern Missouri Ozarks is now to be had in a quality paperback reprint. These beautifully written essays on country sights, sounds, customs, animals, and people could have great appeal to a new generation of readers who’re discovering the fun of rural self-sufficiency. Older readers will rejoice on the opportunity to renew their acquaintance with Len and Ginnie Hall and their adventures on Possum Trot Farm.

Hall, a naturalist and a newspaperman, describes such homely farm chores as dehorning a calf so clearly that one paragraph teaches just how the work is done. His accounts of the events that mark the changing seasons—migrating geese, budding trees, hunting, fishing, butchering, and simply walking through fields and woods—are remarkable for their unpretentious nostalgic beauty.

“Leonard Hall is a mid-Twentieth Century Thoreau…There may be nothing ponderous or pontifical in his writing. It’s direct and clear as befits the surroundings through which he works and writes. When his musings lead him to specific opinion about farm policy, or man’s relation to the land, he doesn’t labor the point but gives it to you short and sharp. It comes on you like a pepper-ball in a mouthful of the country sausage he temptingly describes.”—Chester C. Davis, foreword, first edition, Country Year

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