Cidermaster Of Rio Oscuro - Hardcover

Frauenglas, Harvey; Frauenglass, Harvey

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9780874806601: Cidermaster Of Rio Oscuro

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ISBN 10: 0874806607 ISBN 13: 9780874806601

Publisher: University of Utah Press, 2000

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An orchard in New Mexico is the setting for 14 seasons of growth and harvest and one man's meditation on the natural cycles of life and death. Frauenglass describes days of incessant work pruning trees, pressing cider, and repairing buildings, and tells the stories of neighbors, of past cidermasters, and of his pregnant daughter's battle with cancer. The author is a farmer, cidermaker, and writer whose fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various magazines and journals. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Harvey Frauenglass worked for fourteen years in the national defense industry before becoming a farmer and cidermaker. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in various magazines an journals. He and his wife, the artist Gayle Fulwyler Smith, live on the Rio Oscuro in New Mexico.

"We came to farm living with the faith of the innocent. Gayle saw ancient fruit trees, vines growing over fences, mesas and mountains, and the river; it was a spot of beauty on the earth. I saw apple trees, more than I could count and I wanted to make cider. Inside the old farmhouse the mud walls were thick with grease and grime, the planked ceilings were laced with cobwebs, and the lights were bare bulbs in pullchain sockets hanging from fraying lamp cords which ran from room to room. The faucets spit and bubbled and bucket of water stood beside the toilet to help it flush. The whole farm was a midden of the broken, the used up, the forgotten, and the obsolete. . . . Everything here was ours and everything called at one and the same time for our attention. We had bought the farm."

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