The River in Winter

Crawford's thoughtful and witty essays explore his experiences as a farmer, activist and observer in rural New Mexico. In his third non-fiction book he writes, among other topics, about the river which irrigates his land and the animals and plants which touch his life.

Stanley Crawford, educated at the University of Chicago, the Sorbonne, and the University of California, Berkeley, lives and writes in Dixon, New Mexico. His earlier works of nonfiction, A Garlic Testament and Mayordomo won the Western States Book Award in 1988. He is also the author of four novels

I. Brief Histories

A Brief History of Lines

3

(4)

Reflections in Mud

7

(4)

Boxes

11

(5)

A Writer's Rooms

16

(3)

A History of Flat Stones

19

(6)

II. Water

The River in Winter

25

(5)

Sitting by Water

30

(3)

Acequia as Teacher

33

(4)

Dancing for Water

37

(3)

Free Lunch

40

(26)

An Open Letter to the State Engineer

66

(8)

Saving the Commons

74

(8)

Ancient Acequia Updated

82

(3)

The River in Summer

85

(6)

III. Creatures and Their Habitats

Another World

91

(6)

Almost Twins

97

(3)

Cottonwoods

100

(3)

Everybody Needs a River

103

(4)

The Ambassadors

107

(12)

The Gourd People

119

(9)

Just Too Small

128

(2)

The Tame and the Wild

130

(7)

IV. The Infrastructure of Place

Zucchini to Apples

137

(3)

It Takes a Village to Run a Village

140

(4)

The Village Novel

144

(6)

Necropolis

150

(5)

Meetings

155

(2)

A Farmer's Bookshelf

157

(3)

Globalization: An Early Warning Signal

160

(3)

How to Get Rightside Up Again

163

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