No Place Like Home: Notes from a Western Life

✍ Scribed by Linda M. Hasselstrom

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 229
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

No Place Like Home scrutinizes the contemporary West, where subdivisions consume family ranches and historic towns are evolving into mean, congestedcities. Linda Hasselstrom offers a report from the front, where nature and human aspirations are often at odds and the concepts of community and mutual responsibility are being redefined.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Flap
......Page 2
Title Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Prologue: A '54 Chevy Named Beulah
......Page 15
Selling the Ranch......Page 23
Dear John......Page 45
The School Bus Driver......Page 55
Laughter in the Alley......Page 60
Tomato Cages Are Metaphors
......Page 67
A Rocket Launcher in the Closet
......Page 76
The Beauty of Responsibility
......Page 81
Watching for Grizzlies Anyway
......Page 83
He Pinched the Burning End
......Page 91
Shoveling Snow in the Dark
......Page 97
Stalking Coffee in Sitka......Page 103
Recycling Freedom......Page 113
Tattoos and a Thong......Page 117
Learning the Names of Cows
......Page 121
How to Live at the Dump......Page 128
It Doesn't Just Happen......Page 139
Making Pottery out of Sewage......Page 146
Pray for Me I Drive Highway 79
......Page 152
The Stolen Canoe Mystery......Page 159
Playing Pool with the Cat Men
......Page 165
Sounding the Writing Mudhole......Page 174
Investigating the Heron Murders......Page 190
Who's Driving the Subdivision......Page 198
Overlooking the Antelope Ridge
......Page 206
Epilogue: Waiting for the Storm
......Page 217
Additional Resources......Page 221
Back Flap
......Page 227
Back Cover
......Page 228