Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place

by Richard Rankin

Local Signs and Wonders is an essay collection describing how attachment to a family homestead creates a sense of wellbeing, fulfillment, and belonging. Richard Rankin lives on family property settled in the mid 1760s and farmed until the 1970s. The Rankin home place sits in a shrinking countryside about twenty miles west of fast-growing Charlotte, North Carolina. The desire to belong to a place grows out of a deep yearning to feel at home in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0881469246
• ISBN13: 9780881469240
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"