Too Wet to Plow: The Family Farm in Transition [Hardcover]

Jeanne Simonelli (Author), Charles Winters (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 21, 1998

Here in words and photographs is the yearly cycle of a reasonably innocent profession, dairy farming. A complex craft, that calls on the physical and intellectual powers of men and women who work in it, requiring rather more character than is required of most of us, and now, in its unnatural twilight, a larger endowment of stubborn hope. The text of this book and the photographs chronicle the varied tasks of each season. Much work, some beauty, capped with heartbreak.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A moving collection…Simonelli writes vividly, her prose a moving testimonial. (Book Reader )

Concrete, vivid, personal, and evocative writing (Gilbert Kushner Book Reviews )

A vivid piece of photographic and literary representation. (Donovan, Diane C. Midwest Book Review )

A tale of pleasures and sadness…a paean to the farms and farmers. (Geoffrey Ryan New York City Audubon Society Newsletter )

About the Author

Jeanne Simonelli (Ph.D., U. Oklahoma), an applied cultural anthropologist, is professor and chair of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. Her anthropological field experiences are united by the broad theme of change and choice in Mexico, Oklahoma, rural New York, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and Jerusalem. At Wake Forest, she directs the Southwest Summer Program, and is co-director of the University of Texas-El Paso/Wake Forest Chiapas Project. She has also writtenCrossing Between Worlds, Uprising of Hope, andTwo Boys, a Girl and Enough.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: New Amsterdam Books; 1st Edition. edition (April 21, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0941533646
• ISBN-13: 978-0941533645
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,748,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jeanne Simonelli is an applied cultural anthropologist and writer who currently teaches at Wake Forest University. Like Sherlock Holmes, she is author of a huge number of infinitely boring but scientifically significant monographs. She has published four books with good titles, Uprising of Hope: Sharing the Zapatista Journey to Autonomous Development (2005); Crossing Between Worlds: The Navajo of Canyon de Chelly (2008; 1997); Too Wet To Plow: The Family Farm in Transition (1992) and Two Boys, A Girl, and Enough! (1986). She has spent summers wearing a Smokey-the-Bear hat as an interpretive Park Ranger at Canyon de Chelly National Monument and doing development projects with a rebel organization in southern Mexico. Her goal in life is to have a novel featured in the Albuquerque Airport bookstore.