These clever ruminations range from making butter to finding the perfect fencepost to selling hand-felled wood to Park Avenue snobs, in a delightful collection of essays about life in small-town Vermont.
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Originally published in 1914, "Shelters, Shacks and Shanties" presents step-by-step tutelage on all aspects of outdoor accommodation. D. C. Beard explains how to construct a variety of worry-free shelters appropriate to a natural environment that is by tu
