You Should Start Sooner: Maine Dispatches from The Christian Science Monitor

by John Gould

Overview

For more than six decades, John Gould charmed readers of the Christian Science Monitor with his regular column Dispatches from the Farm," in which he extolled the virtues of Maine life. Gathered here are fifty favorites from among his "dispatches," comprising a wholesome potpourri of Yankee wit. With its zany variety, native flavor, and good-natured needling, this collection will warm the hearts of both Down Easters and folks from away.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608935499
Publisher:	Down East Books
Publication date:	03/15/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Born and bred in Maine, John Gould (1908-2003) was well known for his acerbic Yankee wit. Over his life he wrote dozens of books and for an astounding sixty-two years was a regular columnist for the Christian Science Monitor. Despite his literary fame, he would always claim that he was, first, last, and always, a farmer.

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From the Publisher

"Now a wider audience has a chance to savor these Dispatches from the Farm. The preserve memories and values which are a rich element of American life and have a part to play in the future of a good society." —Erwin D. Canham, former editor-in-chief, Christian Science Monitor "Most these tales would lose little in being transported to the Ozarks, Appalachia, or California. They apply in any region where the natives are sagacious, the economy rural, and the people from away naive. .. Mr. Gould's humor is universal, which is a good thing for humor to be." — New York Times Book Review