Don Mitchell, Author Camden House Publishing (Ontario, CA) $9.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-944475-18-8
This series of essays uses farm life, specifically sheep herding in Vermont, as a basis for reflections on children growing up, the meaning of work and the nature of pleasure. Mitchell ( Moving UpCountry ) is at his most cogent when describing what...
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Don Mitchell. Chelsea Green, $24.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-6035-8520-0
Middlebury writing professor, novelist, and shepherd Mitchell (The Nature Notebooks) didn’t set out to become an environmental hero at the outset of this elegantly written eco-memoir. Despite his mistrust of authority, in 2009, Mitchell is ridding...
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Don Mitchell. Scholastic Press, $18.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-545-47725-3
Mitchell commemorates the 50th anniversary of the murders of three civil rights workers in Mississippi who died helping African-Americans register to vote. A recount of the brutal slayings of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner at...
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