Cattle Upon a Thousand Hills

Appalachian Review , Vo. 49, Winter 2021, pages 30-54

Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-20

16 Pages Posted: 9 Aug 2021 Last revised: 17 Dec 2021

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Date Written: August 3, 2020

Abstract

Barn Burning
Wood and hay kin burn.
—William Faulkner
I was two-and-a-half years-old when I stood at the living room window with my very pregnant mother, watching our barn burn down. “I think you kind of enjoyed it,” she told me later. “The neighbors came and threw snowballs at the flames.”
No firefighters ventured out to save the barn or the animals lodged therein—ten cows, a horse, and a cat. Perched at the top of a hill, on a long dirt road, our farm lay twenty miles from the nearest city, in the extreme northeast corner of Pennsylvania. We were isolated at all times but especially in winter, when snow and ice left our home beyond the reach of the outside world.

Keywords: memoir, creative nonfiction, Appalachia, dairy farm,

Suggested Citation

Duncan, Martha-Grace, Cattle Upon a Thousand Hills (August 3, 2020). Appalachian Review , Vo. 49, Winter 2021, pages 30-54, Emory Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-20, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3898627

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