| Uncle Will of Wildwood: Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass Contributor(s): McVey, Frances Jewell (Author), Jewell, Robert Berry (Author), Foose, Robert James (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0813191475 ISBN-13: 9780813191478 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, ?every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain.? Wildwood was such a domain, ruled by the titular Uncle Will of this classic book. Everything at Wildwood revolved around Will Goddard, who was ?a cross between a hurricane and an electric fan.? The irrepressible Uncle Will, with his mad dashes to Harrodsburg for mowing-machine parts, his habit of leaving his stallion, Black Joe, unhitched, and his uncanny perception of the potential of a horse, became a family and community legend. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 19th Century |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005281605 |
| Physical Information: 0.41" H x 6.02" W x 8.46" (0.42 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Geographic Orientation - Kentucky - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
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| Publisher Description: Uncle Will of Wildwood is a warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass that recalls a defining period of Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, "every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain." Wildwood was such a place, ruled by the affable Uncle Will of this classic book. Everything at Wildwood revolved around Will Goddard, who was "a cross between a hurricane and an electric fan." Uncle Will -- with his mad dashes into Harrodsburg for mowing-machine parts, his habit of leaving his stallion Black Joe unhitched, his irrepressible spirit, and his uncanny perception of the potential of a horse -- became a family and community legend. A celebration of Kentucky before the arrival of the modern age, Uncle Will of Wildwood fondly remembers life before the automobile, before radio and television, and before growing cities eroded the quiet and grand way of country life. Though Uncle Will's story is nearly two hundred years old, his lessons of self-sufficiency, community, and eccentricity are still pertinent today. In print for the first time since 1974, Uncle Will of Wildwood captures the riotous spirit of one Kentucky man and the flavor of country life. |