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Loading... Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: Rediscovering Life in an American Village (1997)by Barbara Holland
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  readaholic12 | Aug 24, 2009 |  debra_hamel | Oct 12, 2007 | This is a good little book, recounting a single woman's fit into a rural southern exurb. Civilization is coming, can't be stopped, but she captures the tension between wanting the convenience of modern life and dealing with the wildness of rural life. (  ) judvaughn | Apr 16, 2007 | no reviews | add a review
When Barbara Holland inherited her mother's small cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, she quit her job in advertising and moved from Philadelphia to her new home high on a mountain, with only her cat for company. In Bingo Night at the Fire Hall, Holland recounts her adventures and misadventures adjusting to life in a rural community, as her small town adjusts to the inevitable encroachment of suburbia. Whether writing obituaries for the local paper or learning how to handle a chainsaw, Holland shares the triumphs and travails of being a newcomer to an old land with a rich history, a beautiful place sadly losing ground to subdivisions and four-lane highways. Filled with wonderful anecdotes, humor, and insight, Bingo Night at the Fire Hall is a fascinating portrait of a paradisical yet disappearing world. No library descriptions found. |
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At times funny and touching, often sad, the essays paint a picture of a rapidly changing American landscape. Family farms give way to subdivisions filled with giant homes, and local businesses and towns slowly disappear as "people live where they cannot work and work where they cannot live." Barbara Holland stays on her mountain bearing witness to it all, showing us precisely what we have lost in the name of progress. (