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For the Hog Killing, 1979
Published by The University Press of Kentucky; Fireside Industries Books, Lexington, KY, 2019
ISBN 10: 1950564002ISBN 13: 9781950564002
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA ILAB IOBA RMABA
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 93pp. Square octavo [23.5 cm] Illustrated paper over boards. Minor soiling to the rear board. Edited by Ben Aguilar. From the Publisher- "The traditional neighborly work of killing a hog and preparing it as food for humans is either a fine art or a shameful mess. It requires knowledge, experience, skill, good sense, and sympathy," writes Wendell Berry in the essay portion of this book. In November 1979 as in years before, neighborly families gathered to do one of the ceremonious jobs of farm life: hog killing. Tanya Berry had been given a camera by New Farm magazine to photograph Kentucky farmers at work, and for two days at the farm of Owen and Loyce Flood in Henry County, she captured this culmination of a year's labor raising livestock. Here, in the resulting photographs, published for the first time, the American agrarian tradition is shown at its most harmonious, with strong men and women toiling with shared purpose towards a common wealth. Tanya Berry reveals intimate, expressive moments: the teams of young men hoisting animals by physical strength onto a gambrel and wagon for butchering, women grinding meat and mixing sausage and readying hams for preservation, and the solidarity of human beings coming together in reverence for the food they would eat, the lives and bodies which would be taken, and those which would be strengthened.
