By Wendell Berry
Reviewers have said of Berry, "Here is a human being speaking with calm and sanity out of the wilderness. We would do well to hear him" (WaPo) and "What a pleasure it is to read about decent people who love or like or at least tolerate each other...and who try, and sometimes succeed, to live by 'virtue'" (Wallace Stegner)
These stories, set in fictional rural Port William around the mid-20th century, bear out the decency and common sense so often absent from today's dialogue. We read of small farmers using old-fashioned equipment, homemakers, families - those who revere the land and one another. In each story, we see goodness, kindness, forgiveness - some trait that brings forth good in the community. When I had trouble getting back to reading after a time of some discouragement, Wendell Berry cured me.
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