Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality by Stout, Ruth
Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality by Stout, Ruth

Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality

"Guess who's coming to dinner?" With Ruth Stout, you never knew Would it be sweet-tempered temperance activist,...
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Author: Ruth Stout
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Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality by Stout, Ruth

Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality

$60.25
Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality by Stout, Ruth

Company Coming: Six Decades of Hospitality

$60.25
Author: Ruth Stout
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"Guess who's coming to dinner?"

With Ruth Stout, you never knew Would it be sweet-tempered temperance activist, Carrie Nation, who smashed the windows of illegal saloons with a hatchet? Would it be her younger brother, Rex Stout, who finagled his way onto Teddy Roosevelt's presidential yacht and later became famous for his Nero Wolfe mysteries? Would it be Dr. Poulin, the famous hypnotist? Simple-living guru Scott Nearing? Not to mention friends, neighbors, starving artists, and refugees.

Ruth Stout tells the story of her life in terms of who showed up for dinner, and she describes the way she and her husband Fred turned their barn into simple visitor accommodations, turning guests into neighbors and avoiding Ben Franklin's maxim that "fish and visitors stink after three days."

The main flaw of this book is that it's too short Major events like Ruth's work in Russia during the great famine in the Twenties are mentioned only briefly, and when we realize that the New York brownstone that they lived in for a while became Nero Wolfe's house in her brother Rex's detective stories, we'd like fuller descriptions and, if possible, floor plans

But for everything that isn't there, there's something that is, making the book funny and wise and full of surprises, like all of Ruth's writing.

Ruth Stout was a beloved advocate of simple living and organic gardening, and her books, including Gardening Without Work, popularized her style of simple living to millions.

Company Coming was first published in 1958, and is volume 2 of our Ruth Stout Classics series. Visit http: //www.nortoncreekpress.com for more of Ruth Stout's classic books.



Author: Ruth Stout
Publisher: Norton Creek Press
Published: 01/01/2012
Pages: 154
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780981928487

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