Gene Logsdon, Author . Ohio Univ. $29.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1786-7
Logsdon writes about contemporary farming issues with quaint elegance, good humor and rich detail in this novel set in the rustic village of Gowler, Ohio. Ben Bump grows up poor and of immigrant parents, while his boyhood friend Emmett Gowler is...
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Gene Logsdon, Author Chelsea Green Publishing Company $21.95 (237p) ISBN 978-0-930031-67-1
``Cutting down a large tree should be an act charged with ritual.'' Why? Farming columnist Logsdon ( Organic Orcharding ) points to the tree's ``wonderful accomplishment'' and to its ``feat of survival'' as models for ourselves. Then he goes on to...
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Gene Logsdon, Author Taylor Publishing Company (TX) $13.95 (142p) ISBN 978-0-87833-634-0
Twenty years ago, Logsdonthen a roving editor for Farm Journal (which he still edits)poked around rural Pennsylvania and Maine, interviewing people whom Andrew Wyeth had featured in various portrait paintings. This slim, hero-worshipping volume...
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Gene Logsdon, Author Chelsea Green Publishing Company $16.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-930031-96-1
Between his opening salvo against agribusiness (including politicians, academicians, economists and even charitable foundations) and his closing homage to the pleasures of self-sufficiency, Ohio farmer Logsdon folds practical advice into bold...
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Gene Logsdon. Chelsea Green, $24.95 (192p) ISBN 978-1-60358-539-2
Dryly humorous, intelligently original, and at times poetic, Logsdon (A Sanctuary of Trees) muses and wisecracks about cycles of life and death, nature’s resilience, and humanity’s follies from the rolling hills and changing seasons of his farm in...
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Gene Logsdon. Chelsea Green, $22.50 (224p) ISBN 978-1-60358-725-9
Late Ohioan farmer Logsdon (Gene Everlasting: A Contrary Farmer’s Thoughts on Living Forever) sends a meaningful (though poorly titled) message to up-and-coming homestead farmers. Written during the late stages of an illness that would take the...
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Gene Logsdon, Author, Gregory Spaid, Photographer, Wendell Berry, Foreword by Ohio University Press $20 (72p) ISBN 978-0-8214-1407-1
Prolific environmental writer Gene Logsdon tells the inspirational story of a man who singlehandedly reclaims an Ohio farm from strip-mined land in this plainspoken short narrative, accompanied by Gregory Spaid's eloquent black and white photos ...
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Gene Logsdon, Author, Gene Logdson, Author, Wendell Berry, Introduction by Pantheon Books $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-42741-4
In this collection of essays reprinted from a variety of farm journals, a fourth-generation farmer in north-central Ohio looks at the current state of the family farm with cautious optimism. But Logsdon is sharply critical of agricultural education,
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