Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place

Richard Rankin lives in North Carolina on family property settled in the mid 1760s and farmed until...
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Author: Richard Rankin
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Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place by Rankin, Richard

Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place

$40.35

Local Signs and Wonders: Essays about Belonging to a Place

$40.35
Author: Richard Rankin
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Richard Rankin lives in North Carolina on family property settled in the mid 1760s and farmed until the 1970s. The desire to belong to a place grows out of a deep yearning to feel at home in the world and to find a particular location where that feeling is best satisfied. Individual essays treat diverse local topics including the disappearance of family farms, complicated racial history, soil conservation, physical labor as recreation, the influence of a great tree, chicken fighting, folk history, folk healing, the disappearance of bobwhite quail, black bear restoration, and exemplary outdoorsmen. As a whole, the pieces reveal how a settled inhabitant's personal identity grows from a local landscape and its history and culture. How the Creator invites the settler to join an ongoing partnership to re-create and steward a beloved place and its creatures. And how this creative process leads to a greater appreciation of local things, family, neighbors and wildlife, and service to creation.

Author: Richard Rankin
Publisher: Mercer University Press
Published: 04/01/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.55w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780881469240

About the Author
Richard Rankin writes books and articles on cultural history, nature, and hunting. After a long career as a college professor and administrator and an independent school headmaster, Rankin directs the Interlaken Wildlife Center in Cameron, South Carolina. An outdoorsman, conservationist, and Presbyterian layman, he and his family are the sixth generation living on family land in the North Carolina Piedmont.

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