In good hands
Subtitle: the keeping of a family farm
By: Charles Fish.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Agriculture -- Vermont -- History.; Farm life -- Vermont -- History.; Family farms -- Vermont -- History.
Description: In 1836, Henry Lester moved his family from the Vermont hills to better land on the valley floor north of Rutland, beginning a saga of six generations on a farm, which this book portrays and explores with an affectionate but critical eye.

What gives the book its distinctive charm is its vivid evocation of a way of life: the beloved grandmother keeping house both as a shelter and as a temple of the spirit; the uncles sowing and harvesting, raising and slaughtering; the author, as a small boy, working with the men, fishing and hunting, and, later, reflecting on the issues of pleasure and work, freedom and community.