The Church in the Plains - 9285

The Church in the Plains tells the story of a German Lutheran farming community whose members immigrated to Ohio in the 1830s. These poems focus on the community's relationship with the church and the land--the expanse of plains, formerly wetlands, drained and cultivated by forefathers--and how that relationship has changed since the 19th century. Farmers have always had a fraught relationship with development. It provided them with tractors and drainage tiles to farm the rich flood-plain soil, yet also gave rise to a burgeoning urban population, which oozes at a troubling pace toward family farms. This collection attempts both to commemorate the history of an ancestral home and to cope with encroaching modernity and development. Where, for instance, do a grandmother's memories go when they bulldoze her childhood home to make way for another pre-fab neighborhood? How does this community continue to exist even as the church languishes?
ASIN: 1934695556
VSKU: BVV.1934695556.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Rachel Rinehart
Binding: Paperback