Calgary Public Library

Country matters, [the pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big city to an old country farmhouse], Michael Korda

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Country matters

talking book MP3

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Michael Korda

[the pleasures and tribulations of moving from a big city to an old country farmhouse]

This chatty book describes how Korda and his wife bought a 200-year-old farm in a small town in Dutchess County, N.Y., about 90 miles north of Manhattan. Over the 20-odd years chronicled, the Kordas use a mixture of guile, hard work and perseverance to ingratiate themselves with the locals and truly make the place their own. Many of the episodes, often comedic, document the various renovations of the farmhouse and the mental and physical barriers the Kordas cross in exchanging a glamorous New York lifestyle for one filled with pigs, horses and grubs