Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place

by Richard Rankin

Richard Rankin lives in North Carolina on family property settled in the mid 1760s and farmed until the 1970s. The desire to belong to a place grows out of a deep yearning to feel at home in the world and to find a particular location where that feeling is best satisfied. Individual essays treat diverse local topics including the disappearance of family farms, complicated racial history, soil conservation, physical labor as recreation, the influence...

• 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"