“Marce Catlett: The Force of a Story” by Wendell Berry

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.

“Remembering: A Novel” by Wendell Berry

It’s the mid-1970s. Andy Catlett is in San Francisco, a writer attending a modern agricultural conference. His family in Kentucky is likely relieved that he’s away; Andy had become very difficult to live with. 

The reason: some time before, Andy and a few others were helping a neighbor on his farm. Andy was operating machinery, and almost without realizing what had happened, he lost his hand. The quick actions by the other men likely save his life; he could have bled to death.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Dancing Priest.

Some Wednesday Readings

 

Two Men. A Morgan, and a Martyr – Dwight Longenecker at The Imaginative Conservative.

 

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems – Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova at The Free Press.

 

The History of the Orient Express – Sulari Gentill at CrimeReads.