Andy Catlett, whom we first met as a boy in an earlier novel by Wendell Berry, is now an old man. As old men are wont to do, he’s looking backward – at his life, his parents’ lives, and even earlier. And what he sees, far more clearly than he would have seen in his youth, is what shaped four generations of Catletts, including himself and his own children.
It is a story, a story that happened to his grandfather, Marce Catlett, a story that happened in less than 24 hours but lasted more than a century. And it shows every sign of continuing to last.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.
Some Wednesday Readings
The Irish Tigers from Louisiana (and why they fought for the South in the Civil War) – Patrick Young at The Reconstruction Era.
Life of the Mind & Heart at Hillsdale College – Daniel Sundahl at The Imaginative Conservative.
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