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Bingo Night at the Fire Hall by Barbara Holland (1997, Hardcover) 
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Bingo Night at the Fire Hall by Barbara Holland (1997, Hardcover)

Publisher: Harcourt
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0151002681
ISBN-13: 9780151002689
Product ID: EPID443837
Description: The author writes about her migration from Philadelphia to a cabin she inherited in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. As an alien in a small rural community, she describes how she learned to adjust to a slower pace of life.
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Synopsis
The author writes about her migration from Philadelphia to a cabin she inherited in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. As an alien in a small rural community, she describes how she learned to adjust to a slower pace of life.

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Publication Date:1997-09-01

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Height:8.8 in
Width:5.8 in
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Weight:13.6 oz

Publisher's Note
In 1990, Barbara Holland inherited her mother's summer cabin in the northern Blue Ridge Mountains. She quit her job in Philadelphia, said good-bye to friends and family, and moved into a different world. On the mountain she wrestled with winter isolation, stoked the woodstove, and learned to live with bears in the trash and mountain lions on the lawn. Lonely, she found a part-time job at the county newspaper down in the valley and earned the right to sit on a barstool in the tavern, where she listened to the people whose families had always lived there, in the little country towns and their outlying farms. It was good, rich land, where dairy cows and peaches, corn and wheat, had always flourished. Everyone knew everyone else, and generations stayed settled within hailing distance of aunts and brothers, sons and daughters. The population figures hadn't changed since James Monroe was president. Crime was a toolbox stolen from the back of a pickup truck. Money, in a world where people could do so much for themselves, had nothing to do with status; capability counted for more than cash. Then just as she settled into this gentle, anachronistic world, it began to change. The suburbs were moving in. Malls and highways began to grow where pigs and peaches had been. As the strangers from metropolitan Washington outnumbered the natives, the bedrock of community began to crack. Villages were overwhelmed by development, and, at the newspaper, the once-idle cops-and-courts reporter was swamped with work. Holland suggests that it may indeed "take a village to raise a child" - or to nourish a peaceable, sturdy, self-reliant people. And if so, what shall we do with our villages gone?

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.

Industry Reviews
"[A] passionate elegy for the passing of one of the most beautiful counties in America. Barbara Holland has written a lovely book."
publishers' materials - Russell Baker

"If at times she can not resist the sentimental, invariably she leavens it with a strong dose of realism and self-mockery."
Washington Post Book World - Jonathan Yardley (09/21/1997)

"Holland is a sharp and often witty observer of her adopted homeland, and she makes a strong case in its defense--so strong that we find ourselves curious about the person behind the polemicist."
New York Times Book Review - Alida Becker (02/08/1998)

"...Holland describes the past and the intruding present eloquently..."
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