Title: String too short to be saved
First published: 1961
Description: This is a collection of stories diverse in subject, but sutured together by the limitless affection the author holds for the land and the people of New England. Donald Hall tells about life on a small farm where, as a boy, he spent summers with his grandparents. Gradually the boy grows to be a young man, sees his grandparents aging, the farm become marginal, and finally, the cows sold and the barn abandoned.

But these are more than nostalgic memories, for in the measured and tender prose of each episode are signs of the end of things - a childhood, perhaps a culture.
Subjects: American Poets, Biography, Country life, Farm life, Homes and haunts, Intellectual life, Poets, American, Social life and customs, Large type books, New england, description and travel, Hall, donald, 1928-2018, Poets, biography, New hampshire, social life and customs, Homes, Manners and customs
Places: New Hampshire
People: Donald Hall (1928-)
Time periods: 20th century