Title: The river in winter : new and selected essays /
Authors: Crawford, Stanley G., 1937-
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Water Social aspects New Mexico.; Country life New Mexico.; New Mexico Social life and customs; New Mexico Rural conditions.
Abstract: A collection of short personal essays on the life of a writer, life in a small town, and the natural and human world of a river and its surroundings in New Mexico.
Contents: A brief history of lines -- Reflections in mud -- Boxes -- A writer's rooms -- A history of flat stones -- The river in winter -- Sitting by water -- Acequia as teacher -- Dancing for water -- Free lunch -- An open letter to the state engineer -- Saving the commons -- Ancient acequia updated -- The river in summer -- Another world -- Almost twins -- Cottonwoods -- Everybody needs a river -- The ambassadors -- The gourd people -- Just too small -- The tame and the wild -- Zucchini to apples -- It takes a village to run a village -- The village novel -- Necropolis -- Meetings -- A farmer's bookshelf -- Globalization: an early warning signal -- How to get rightside up again.