From a Limestone Ledge
From a Limestone Ledge
Some Essays and Other Ruminations about Country Life in Texas
“Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas.” —New Yorker
“Graves writes eloquently about a countryman’s concerns. There's not a false note in the book.” —Boston Globe
“Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves’s native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces never designed to fit together, yet made to achieve a unity that is more enduring than the sum of its individual parts by the hands of a master craftsman.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly
“The beauty of his work endures, and there is a greater pride in Texans’ hearts for their home, I think, than there would be if he hadn’t written the books he did.” —Rick Bass, Garden & Gun
“In describing the particulars of his surroundings, Graves often was describing the world in microcosm and the place and plight of humankind in it.” —Bryan Woolley, Dallas Morning News
- Foreword by Bill Wittliff
- Preface
- Coping
- Notes of an Uncertain Bluecollar Man
- More Than Most People Probably Want to Know About Fences
- Building Fever
- Meat
- Vin du Pays
- Trash as Treasure
- Kindred Spirits
- Creatures
- Nineteen Cows
- A Few Words in Favor of Goats
- Of Bees and Men
- Blue and Some Other Dogs
- Some Chickens I Have Known
- Ponderings, People, and Other Oddments
- Noticing
- Weather Between East and West
- Coronado’s Stepchildren
- Tobacco Without Smoke I: Dippers
- Tobacco Without Smoke II: Chewers
- One’s Own Sole Ground
- A Loser
