Neighbors: posts from the archives

Neighbors: Recommended Reading

Community, then, is an indispensable term in any discussion of the connection between people and land. A healthy community is a form that includes all the local things that are connected by the larger, ultimately mysterious form of the Creation. In speaking of community, then, we are speaking of a complex connection not only among human beings or between humans and their homeland but also between human economy and nature, between forest or prairie and field or orchard, and between troublesome creatures and pleasant ones. All neighbors are included.
— Wendell Berry, "Conservation and Local Economy", The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

The entire Inspector Gamache series of novels set in Three Pines (outside Quebec)!