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Through 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

    Nothing but the Dirt

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        Publisher: MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas
        Publication Date: 7/15/2022 12:00:00 AM
        ISBN13: 9780700633456, 978-0700633456
        ISBN10: 0700633456
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        Population and demography Rural communities / rural life

        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Through 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

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