A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry, with Two Introductions by Efrazima Fiddlehead plus an Afterword and Henry Buckberry's Obituary by Seedy Buckberry
In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get Poor Now concluded in September of 1933, with Henry about to survey the devastation of a forest fire that almost
burned up his log shack.
A Windfall Homestead takes us into the next two decades of Henry's productive, energetic life, as he logs and hunts, clears land for farming, marries, has children, builds a new barn and house from windfall lumber. Henry's life exemplifies the fate of an essentially preindustrial rural culture about to be overwhelmed by post-World War II technology with its comprehensive commercial "culture" extruded by fossil fuel affluence. Henry's was not so much the "greatest" generation as it was the last unself-conscious rural subsistence generation of European heritage.
These stories, all told in Henry's voice, were taken down shortly before Henry's death in 2009 by Henry's son Charles Darwin Buckberry, also known as C. D. or Seedy Buckberry. Seedy claims these stories are accurate and true.
Readers are advised to suspend their civilized disbelief.
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A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry, with Two Introductions by Efrazima Fiddlehead plus an Afterword and Henry Buckberry's Obituary by Seedy Buckberry
In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get Poor Now concluded in September of 1933, with Henry about to survey the devastation of a forest fire that almost
burned up his log shack.
A Windfall Homestead takes us into the next two decades of Henry's productive, energetic life, as he logs and hunts, clears land for farming, marries, has children, builds a new barn and house from windfall lumber. Henry's life exemplifies the fate of an essentially preindustrial rural culture about to be overwhelmed by post-World War II technology with its comprehensive commercial "culture" extruded by fossil fuel affluence. Henry's was not so much the "greatest" generation as it was the last unself-conscious rural subsistence generation of European heritage.
These stories, all told in Henry's voice, were taken down shortly before Henry's death in 2009 by Henry's son Charles Darwin Buckberry, also known as C. D. or Seedy Buckberry. Seedy claims these stories are accurate and true.
Readers are advised to suspend their civilized disbelief.
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A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry, with Two Introductions by Efrazima Fiddlehead plus an Afterword and Henry Buckberry's Obituary by Seedy Buckberry

A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry, with Two Introductions by Efrazima Fiddlehead plus an Afterword and Henry Buckberry's Obituary by Seedy Buckberry

by Seedy Buckberry
A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry, with Two Introductions by Efrazima Fiddlehead plus an Afterword and Henry Buckberry's Obituary by Seedy Buckberry

A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry, with Two Introductions by Efrazima Fiddlehead plus an Afterword and Henry Buckberry's Obituary by Seedy Buckberry

by Seedy Buckberry

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Overview

In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get Poor Now concluded in September of 1933, with Henry about to survey the devastation of a forest fire that almost
burned up his log shack.
A Windfall Homestead takes us into the next two decades of Henry's productive, energetic life, as he logs and hunts, clears land for farming, marries, has children, builds a new barn and house from windfall lumber. Henry's life exemplifies the fate of an essentially preindustrial rural culture about to be overwhelmed by post-World War II technology with its comprehensive commercial "culture" extruded by fossil fuel affluence. Henry's was not so much the "greatest" generation as it was the last unself-conscious rural subsistence generation of European heritage.
These stories, all told in Henry's voice, were taken down shortly before Henry's death in 2009 by Henry's son Charles Darwin Buckberry, also known as C. D. or Seedy Buckberry. Seedy claims these stories are accurate and true.
Readers are advised to suspend their civilized disbelief.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781630872663
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 11/18/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

There's something of a raging controversy in northern Wisconsin as to whether Seedy Buckberry is, is related to, or on occasion pretends to be the obscure writer Paul Gilk. There are allegations that Mr. Buckberry actually encourages this controversy. He, however, denies any knowledge of this dispute or any other related misinformation.

Table of Contents

Editors' Foreword ix

Acknowledgments xi

Efrazima Fiddlehead's First Introduction xiii

Efrazima Fiddlehead's Second Introduction xv

1 Full a Soot an Dirt 1

2 A Canthook Man 13

3 Full a Little Tricks 20

4 The Biggest Walleye I Ever Caught 26

5 A Peculiar Kind of Exercise 32

6 A Cocky Little Wretch 41

7 Orange Pajamas 51

8 Married Two Days an Broke 59

9 When Enuff's Enuff 68

10 Gettin Over that Flirtin Business 73

11 Life's Little Accidents 84

12 Caught His Limit 95

13 Mark My Words 98

14 These Bits an Pieces 106

15 The Most Worthless Piece a Land 114

16 Way Too Fast 122

17 Comin Home With Both 130

18 Changes on the Farm 138

19 Too Big ta Ketch an Swallow 144

Seedy Buckberry's Afterword 149

Henry Buckberry's Obituary 160

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