Too Wet to Plow: The Family Farm in Transition

Here in words and photographs is the yearly cycle of a reasonably innocent profession, dairy farming. A complex craft, that calls on the physical and intellectual powers of men and women who work in it, requiring rather more character than is required of most of us, and now, in its unnatural twilight, a larger endowment of stubborn hope. The text of this book and the photographs chronicle the varied tasks of each season. Much work, some beauty, capped with heartbreak.

Jeanne Simonelli (Ph.D., U. Oklahoma), an applied cultural anthropologist, is professor and chair of Anthropology at Wake Forest University. Her anthropological field experiences are united by the broad theme of change and choice in Mexico, Oklahoma, rural New York, Canyon de Chelly, Arizona, and Jerusalem. At Wake Forest, she directs the Southwest Summer Program, and is co-director of the University of Texas-El Paso/Wake Forest Chiapas Project. She has also writtenCrossing Between Worlds, Uprising of Hope, andTwo Boys, a Girl and Enough.