The Common Room: First Person Rural, Review of sorts

re: "First Person Rural is by Noel Perrin. The Washington Post called him a rural essayist in their obituary for him, and said that his writing showed a well-furnished mind. I concur. This was an easy to read, but thought provoking and memorable collection of essays. There was not a lot of how-to information for the hands-on agrarian, but the arm-chair agrarian, as well as the real thing, will find the essays quite satisfactory. He writes about making maple syrup, building fences, making your own fence posts, butter-making, snow-mobiles, selling firewood, and the Vermont countryside, which, he says, will soon look just like New Jersey, only with hills. But he could have written with equal interest about almost any country related topic and he'd be worth reading..."...