Discover the charm of Wendell Berry’s rural tales
Amid the nostalgia, they offer salutary lessons for modern life
Wendell berry was almost 30 when he packed up his life as a New York intellectual and decamped to Port Royal, a tiny community in Kentucky where generations of his forebears had farmed the land. His friends thought him mad. Mr Berry said it was “not an altogether pleasant fate”. But he felt obliged—destined, even—to record the history of the place.
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