Seven Summers is the story of a naturalist-turned-professor who flees city life each summer with her pets and power tools to pursue her lifelong dream--building a cabin in the Wyoming woods. With little money and even less experience, she learns that creating a sanctuary on her mountain meadow requires ample doses of faith, patience, and luck. This mighty task also involves a gradual and sometimes painful acquisition of flexibility and humility in the midst of great determination and naive enthusiasm. For Corbett, homesteading is not about wresting a living from the land, but respecting and immersing herself in it--observing owls and cranes, witnessing seasons and cycles, and learning the rhythms of wind and weather in her woods and meadow. The process changes her in unexpected ways, just as it did for women homesteaders more than a century ago. The more she works with wood, the more she understands the importance of "going with the grain" in wood as well as in life. She must learn to let go, to move through loss and grief, to trust her voice, and to balance independence and dependence. Corbett also gains a better understanding of her fellow Wyomingites, a mix of ranchers, builders, gas workers, and developers, who share a love of place but often hold decidedly different values. This beautifully written memoir will appeal to readers who appreciate stories of the western landscape, independent women, or the appreciation of the natural world.

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Corbett, Julia

Utah State Historical Society

Chicago Distribution Center (CDC Presses), Salt Lake City, 2013

United States, United States of America

First Edition, FR, 2013

Mar 31, 2013

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Source title: Seven Summers: A Naturalist Homesteads in the Modern West

The Story Of A Naturalist-turned-professor Who Flees City Life Each Summer With Her Pets And Power Tools To Pursue Her Lifelong Dream-- Building A Cabin In The Wyoming Woods. Chain-saw Dreams -- The Picture In My Mind's Eye -- Faith In The Witcher -- If You Want To Make God Laugh -- Blackwater Run -- The Wild Within -- Becoming A General -- How Hard Can It Be? -- The Dry Doe -- Riding The New Wild West -- What Happens At The Cabin -- A Finger Of Owls -- Are You An Environmentalist? -- A Crush On Cranes -- Blooming -- Home Is Where Your Dead Are Buried -- Going With The Grain -- All Is Forgiven At The Ceiling. Julia Corbett.

2023-08-14