Sometimes Creek: A Wyoming Memoir
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Rating | : | 4.59 (943 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0984005617 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 354 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2015-09-29 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A Wyoming Life Framed by the views outside her cabin in Bondurant, Wyoming, Florence Rose Krall Shepard's memoir is an unforgettable portrait of her life, family, and career. Once named Wyoming Science Teacher of the Year, Flo's evolving love of the plants and animals of the high steppe country is a vivid and moving testament to the endurance required to live in this harsh and beautiful land. Sometimes Creek is definitely a keeper, one of those books to place on the bookshelf, to return to later and savor all ov
From the landscape of childhood on a sheep ranch during the Great Depression, to a one-room school and universities, through motherhood and environmental teaching and activism, she pays tribute to her nurturing Italian parents and the wonders of the natural world.. In this memoir, narrated from her cabin in western Wyoming through the seasons, Florence Rose Krall Shepard retraces the contours of her long life