Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many residents of the northern Great Plains, such legislation cannot come soon enough. Edith Phillips, 71, of Weld County, is suing Sodbuster Thomas for $150,000 because of waves of dirt that she claims are blowing off his plowed acreage and onto her homestead. Says she: "There's nothing but dust out there. You can't breathe." Admonishes Bill Brown, a Montana rancher: "The Government shouldn't be subsidizing bad farming practices...
Remarkably few tears are shed in Sister Age, but those that fall linger in the memory. In Moment of Wisdom, a tired, frail old man, as "dry as a ditch weed," comes calling at the homestead outside Whittier with Bibles for sale. The twelve-year-old girl who answers the door refuses a Bible but offers a glass of water. As the old man walks away, the child is astonished to find her eyes filling up. She thinks: "If I could have given him something of mine . . . If I had next week's allowance and had not spent this...
...deal supersedes that one, and it will run through July 1986. The reduction in hourly pay becomes effective immediately. But it will be restored in increments in 1984, 1985 and 1986. That did not appease everyone. Said Fran Rattigan, 46, a structural steelworker at U.S. Steel's giant Homestead works in Pennsylvania: "If we have to take a cut, everybody else should make concessions - doctors, lawyers, dentists, Congressmen, Senators, even Presidents...
Nothing seems to happen in these stories, except in the ordinary way of plain people. Relatives from the city come to a small town for a visit with a cousin. Two brothers, seeking the old homestead where they were born, find that it has been uprooted to make way for a wildlife preserve. In a nursing home, two elderly widows who are lifelong friends become estranged, then reconciled. Still, only the surface of these characters may be viewed as plain. In her seemingly effortless prose style, Munro has etched portraits of people living underground dramas of high intensity...
When John and Donna Pflueger moved from Flagstaff, Ariz., to a remote national forest homestead outside the city last fall, their rustic life amid the ponderosa pine soon took on shades of vintage Hitchcock. "I have lived in remote areas all my life," said John. "But I've never seen anything like this before...