Description
Book SynopsisThrough charming, first-person accounts,
Nothing but the Dirt: Stories from an American Farm Town tells the whole story of life in Courtland, Kansas (population 285), a town whose economy depends almost entirely on agriculture, bucking the ‘Rural America is dying’ narrative that so often proliferates headlines about small-town USA.
Table of Contents
- Preface
Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Early Fall
- The Coffee
- The Morning Coffee: Friday
- The Farmers: Steve Brown
- The Pastor
- The New Business: Soul Sister Ceramics
- The Farmers: Hootie Rayburn
- The Farmer’s Wife
- The Young Couple
- The Lunch Spot
- The Mayor
- The Newspaper
- The Liar's Bench
- The Gas Station
- The Lutherans
- Spring
- The Good-bye
- The Morning Coffee: Friday
- The Farmers: Kenny Joerg
- The Ladies
- The Entrepreneur
- The Day Care
- The Ranchero
- The Date Night
- The Body
- The Transplant
- The Morning Coffee: Saturday
- The Average Sunday
- The Morning Coffee: Monday
- The Memories
- The Morning Coffee: Wednesday
- Summer
- The Morning Coffee: Wednesday
- The Lambs
- The Bank
- The City Council Meeting
- The Morning Coffee: Thursday
- The Ditch Rider
- The Family Business: C&W
- Late Fall
- The Morning Coffee: Thursday
- The Broker
- The Morning Coffee: Friday
- The Veterinarian
- The Morning Coffee: Saturday
- The Harvest
- The Family Business: Tebow Plumbing Co.
- The Women: Peggy Nelson
- The Nurse
- The Homeopathic
- The Morning Coffee: Monday
- The Drive Home
- Epilogue