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RFD - Charles Allen Smart (Paperback, New edition)
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RFD - Charles Allen Smart (Paperback, New edition)
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"This book," the author tells us in his preface, "is intended to be
a picture of life on a farm in Southern Ohio in the 1930s." RFD is
a faithful portrait of farm life as thousands of men and women
experienced it from one end of the country to the other and from
pioneering times to the present century. Originally published in
1938 to enthusiastic reviews and commercial success, RFD is the
story of one couple's trials with leaving the comforts of city life
for a chance to get back to the land. Charles Allen Smart was a New
York novelist and prep-school teacher when he inherited his aunt's
farm in Chillicothe, Ohio. He and his wife moved into a rustic
stone farmhouse, determined to combine their lives as working
farmers with their active intellectual life, love of art, and
political progressivism. They upset some in their small town by
staging parts of Clifford Odets's play Waiting for Lefty, but they
won respect for their hard work and honest dealings. Smart conveys
the feel of their lives at a time when living in the country was a
meaningful distinction in America. He also writes movingly of his
concerns regarding America's materialism, the rise of industrial
agriculture, burgeoning chain stores, and frayed communities. Told
with sensitivity, gusto, and a fierce honesty, RFD became a classic
because embedded in its charms as a first-rate farm memoir is the
universal story of one couple's earnest, joyful attempt to live
meaningful lives. Ohio University Press is especially pleased to
reissue this midwestern classic with a new foreword by noted farm
writer Gene Logsdon.
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