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Author:   Peter Smith
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.70cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.236kg
ISBN:  

9780816672325

ISBN 10:   0816672326
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   25 August 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Porch Sofas Off to College: A Parental Spreadsheet School Starts This Morning We Want to Go Back, Too In Praise of Small-Town Football Conflicted Autumn Golf An Open Letter to the City of Hopkins Hudson's Bay Blankets Splitting Wood The Menu Changes Good Autumn Reads Darn Packers Fans Election Night Radio No-Bleeping-Vember Thanksgiving Road Game A Thanksgiving Lesson An Amusing Pastime North Country Fashion Statement Winter Wimps Together Again for the Holidays Sulking in a Winter Wonderland A Christmas Shopping Memory Now It Can Be Christmas Alas, Poor Taurus Dog Days in the Ice Fishing Shack The Inscrutable Finn Crows Real World Valentine's Day A Timeless Saga Split-level Shack-whacky Contemplating Gutter Gloves Thinking Ill of the Literate Jogging Again Talk about Your Golf Drives Cooking with Grandma Are You with Us? Or Are You One of Them? Planting Corn A Little Frugality, Por Favor Lilac Season Meditation on a Green Minivan They're Back What's the Rush? A Tiny Discrepancy Is Ambivalence the Perfect Father's Day Gift? Tacky, Tacky, Tacky People Watching at Lake Calhoun Little League. Big Problem. Thanks, Mom Meditation on a Lawnmower A Minnesota Must On Finding a Bungee Cord In Praise of Municipal Golf Who Turned on the Air Conditioning? Homegrown Tomatoes Still Going Out for the Team Start the State Fair without Me A Fifties Flashback Acorns and Toyotas 4 Sale

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Smith's prose can have the flavor of Bill Bryson or of that old Minnesota standby Garrison Keillor. Other parts of Almanac are infused with an autumnal quality that's movingly elegiac. Smith's little volume is, overall, heartfelt and appealing. -Star Tribune I've had the pleasure of knowing Peter for a long, long time. A great guy-and it turns out-a great writer. His radio commentaries on life in Minnesota are real jewels. -Gary Eichten In his wonderful new book Peter Smith has assembled a year's worth of short pieces that prove the true power of story lies not in the ability to reveal but to conjure. Visceral and poignant, these beautiful tales each catch and release a moment. Suddenly memories begin to flood like the Mississippi River in springtime. As he does on Minnesota Public Radio, whether it's a crisp autumn day under a Hudson's Bay blanket, a Little League game, or perhaps the best opening line ever in 'Meditation on a Lawnmower,' Peter reminds us that a year-a lifetime-is made of episodes, times with those we love, community, and family. In Peter's world we are verbs not nouns, always changing, living, experiencing, and yet like the seasons, bound to come around again. These little gems, or at times more like Pop Rocks, burst forth; we belong. -Kevin Kling

Smith's prose can have the flavor of Bill Bryson or of that old Minnesota standby Garrison Keillor. Other parts of Almanac are infused with an autumnal quality that's movingly elegiac. Smith's little volume is, overall, heartfelt and appealing. -- Star Tribune

Author Information

Peter Smith (d. 2016) lived in Hopkins, Minnesota. He wrote magazine articles, fiction, poetry, an occasional op-ed piece, and was a weekly contributor to Minnesota Public Radio's Morning Edition with Cathy Wurzer.

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