Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse,New

Country Matters: The Pleasures and Tribulations of Moving from a Big City to an Old Country Farmhouse,New

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Dreaming of moving to the country? First, read Michael Kordas engaging memoir. City types will find laughter, profit, and fair warning in Country Matters. Washington PostWith his inimitable sense of humor and storytelling talent, New York Times bestselling author Michael Korda brings us this charming, hilarious, selfdeprecating memoir of a city couple's new life in the country.At once entertaining, canny, and moving, Country Matters does for Dutchess County, New York, what Under the Tuscan Sun did for Tuscany. This witty memoir, replete with Korda's own line drawings, reads like a novel, as it chronicles the author's transformation from city slicker to fulltime country gentleman, complete with tractors, horses, and a leaking roof.When he decides to take up residence in an eighteenthcentury farmhouse in Dutchess County, ninety miles north of New York City, Korda discovers what country life is really like: Owning pigs, more than owning horses, even more than owning the actual house, firmly anchored the Kordas as residents in the eyes of their Pleasant Valley neighbors. You may own your land, but without concertina barbed wire, or the 82nd Airborne on patrol, it's impossible to keep people off it! It's possible to line up major household repairs over a tuna melt sandwich.The locals are not particularly quick to accept these outsiders, and the couple's earliest interactions with their new neighbors provide constant entertainment, particularly when the Kordas discover that hunting season is a yearround eventright on their own land! From their closest neighbors, mostly dairy farmers, to their unforgettable caretaker Harold Roewhose motto regarding the local flora is 'Whack it all back! 'the residents of Pleasant Valley eventually come to realize that the Kordas are more than mere weekenders.Sure to have readers in stitches, this is a book that has universal appeal for all who have ever dreamed of owning that perfect little place to escape to up in the country, or, more boldly, have done it.

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