"Quarrying, cutting, and carving limestone has provided work for thousands of people in Indiana for nearly two centuries. Along highways and backroads, the brawny machinery these workers use to finesse the stone, the humpbacked mills where they shape it, and the rails and roads where they ship it dot the landscape. In this new edition of Stone Country, Scott Russell Sanders and Jeffrey A. Wolin talk with these stone workers, explore the ..."
"Fans today may be surprised to learn Scott Russell Sanders was previously one of the brightest science-fiction newcomers of the 1980s. In Dancing in Dreamtime, he returns to his roots, exploring both inner and outer space in a speculative collection of short stories. At a time when humankind faces unprecedented, global-scale challenges from climate change, loss of biodiversity, dwindling vital resources, and widespread wars, this collec ..."
"As an antidote to the destructive culture of consumption dominating American life today, Scott Russell Sanders calls for a culture of conservation that allows us to savor and preserve the world, instead of devouring it. How might we shift to a more durable and responsible way of life? What changes in values and behavior will be required? Ranging geographically from southern Indiana to the Boundary Waters Wilderness and culturally from t ..."
"Frank P. Thomas Jr., Donald J. Thomas, and Robert E. Wildman, owners of the General Equipment Company, entered into the fast-food business by opening a 15cents hamburger restaurant called Burger Chef in Indianapolis in 1958. General Equipment was a manufacturer of restaurant machinery and built the equipment installed in each Burger Chef store. The partners started their new Burger Chef division to sell more equipment; they never could ..."
"A farmwife for 45 years, Rachel Peden believed that the family farm's best crop is a "harvest of the spirit." In Speak to the Earth, she looks at life -- domestic and wild, human and critter -- through the eyes of someone who witnesses nine seasons of the year rather than the typical four. Peden views the farm as "a place of opportunity simultaneous with obligation, an ..."
Bad Man Ballad (Library of Indiana Classics) by ProfessorScottRussellSanders Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2004 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21688-5, ISBN: 0-253-21688-5
"The time is 1813, during America s last war with England; the place is the Ohio Valley, the thickly wooded, hilly, creek-carved highway of western settlement. Wolves still howl at midnight on village greens. Each log cabin is a fortress, and no one travels without a knife and gun. Through this armed and fearful countryside, three people Ely Jackson, a 17-year-old backwoods boy; Owen Lightfoot, a lawyer from Philadelphia with a romantic ..."
"The country of language, in nature essayist and science-fiction writer Scott Russell Sanders's happy phrase, is the land that humans enter when, early in life, they learn to put words to things. Sanders writes with fine, measured humor of his passage into that terra incognita through episodes involving snakebite, guns, insects, and the other facts of life of his childhood along the Mississippi Delta and, later, in the woods of Ohio. Th ..."
"Aldo Leopold's classic work A Sand County Almanac is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservation books of all time. In it, Leopold sets forth an eloquent plea for the development of a "land ethic" -- a belief that humans have a duty to interact with the soils, waters, plants, and animals that collectively comprise "the land" in ways that ensure their well-being and survival.For the Health of the Land, a new collection of ..."
"Scott Russell Sanders ... I didn't see, then, what a prison a house could be, since
houses seemed to me brighter, handsomer places than any ... I think something
like my bafflement has been felt by other boys (and by girls as well) who grew up
in dirt-poor farm country, in mining country, in black ghettos, ... These fathers rode
the train to work or drove cars that cost more than any of my childhood houses."
Secrets of the Universe(Reprint) Essays on Family, Community, Spirit, and Place by ProfessorScottRussellSanders Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1992 by Beacon Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6331-6, ISBN: 0-8070-6331-2
"Essays on Family, Community, Spirit, and Place Scott Russell Sanders. grade
math. Proverbs warned: “Do not look at wine when it is red, when it sparkles in
the cup and goes down smoothly. At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like
an adder. Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind utter perverse things."
Woe, woe. Dismayingly often, these biblical drunkards stirred up trouble for their
own kids. Noah made fresh wi ..."
"The author recounts how he became a writer, and describes how incidents in his life have affected his beliefs and his work."
This Impermanent Earth Environmental Writing from The Georgia Review (Georgia Review Books Series) by Douglas Carlson Paperback, 426 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of Georgia Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-6027-0, ISBN: 0-8203-6027-9
Staying Put Making a Home in a Restless World (The Concord Library) by ScottRussellSanders Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1993 by Beacon Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8070-6340-8, ISBN: 0-8070-6340-1