From
2001 to 2006, Richard L. Cates Jr. interviewed senior members of more
than 30 families living in and around Arena township, a small community
in southern Wisconsin. He asked them about growing up in rural America
and their connection to a way of life that is vanishing in the
twenty-first century.
The result, Voices from the Heart of the Land,
is a collection of reminiscences, observations, and opinions
celebrating the stewardship of the land and the values of the stewards.
Of course, as Cates points out, these are nothing less than “our
core human values—integrity, commitment, responsibility,
citizenship, self-determination, decency, kindness, love, and
hope.”
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Voices From The Heart
Of The Land
Rural Stories That Inspire Community
by Richard L. Cates
University of Wisconsin Press,
2008
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