Living Up Country: A Pilgrim's Progress

Library Journal

Novelist-farmer Mitchell joins Helen and Scott Nearing, Noel Perrin, and other urbanites and intellectuals in the discovery and chronicling of the pleasures and trials of country life in Vermont. Six chapters presented in a lively first-person style relate encounters with rural neighbors (trespassers) during deer hunting season, getting started seriously in the farming business, auctions, the annual town meeting, the inevitable cold winters, and many other occurrences. Illustrations (line drawings) not seen. For most public libraries and appropriate special collections in others. Harry E. Whitmore, Library Consultant, Arrowhead Lib. System, Virginia, Minn.