Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword, by Robert Hass -- Acknowledgments -- Beginnings -- The Suddy Sow -- The Easiest Way to Pineville -- Discovering Sounds -- The Avera I Knew -- Thad Hill -- Trains -- Widow Smith�s Blue Boar -- Charles Hillman -- The Old Turner Place -- The No-yer�d Bar -- Greene County Dictionary -- Life on the Farm -- One Mississippi Christmas, 1931 -- Hestle -- Uncle Bo -- Humoring a Mule -- What We Ate Back Then -- Sex on the Farm -- God and Politics -- Old Washington Baptist -- Yellow Dog Politics
