Author: Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Farm in the Green Mountains is a story of a refugee family finding its true home—thousands of miles from its homeland. Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over and Carl’s most recent success, a play satirizing German militarism, impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn’t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes “like babies.” But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her “native land.” This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.
The Farm in the Green Mountains
Author: Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Farm in the Green Mountains is a story of a refugee family finding its true home—thousands of miles from its homeland. Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over and Carl’s most recent success, a play satirizing German militarism, impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn’t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes “like babies.” But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her “native land.” This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370751
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Farm in the Green Mountains is a story of a refugee family finding its true home—thousands of miles from its homeland. Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over and Carl’s most recent success, a play satirizing German militarism, impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn’t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes “like babies.” But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her “native land.” This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.
Green Mountain Farm
Author: Elliott Merrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Green Mountain Farm
Author: Elliott Merrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The Farm in the Green Mountains
Author: Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over, and Carl’s most recent success—a play satirizing German militarism—impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn’t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes “like babies.” But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her “native land.” This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681370743
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The charming, return-to-the-land memoir of a refugee family who flees Nazi Germany and finds their true home in the backwoods of rural Vermont Alice and Carl Zuckmayer lived at the center of Weimar-era Berlin. She was a former actor turned medical student, he was a playwright, and their circle of friends included Stefan Zweig, Alma Mahler, and Bertolt Brecht. But then the Nazis took over, and Carl’s most recent success—a play satirizing German militarism—impressed them in all the wrong ways. The couple and their two daughters were forced to flee, first to Austria, then to Switzerland, and finally to the United States. Los Angeles didn’t suit them, neither did New York, but a chance stroll in the Vermont woods led them to Backwoods Farm and the eighteenth-century farmhouse where they would spend the next five years. In Europe, the Zuckmayers were accustomed to servants; in Vermont, they found themselves building chicken coops, refereeing fights between fractious ducks, and caring for temperamental water pipes “like babies.” But in spite of the endless work and the brutal, depressing winters, Alice found that in America she had at last discovered her “native land.” This generous, surprising, and witty memoir, a best seller in postwar Germany, has all the charm of an unlikely romantic comedy.
The Vermont Farm Table Cookbook: 150 Home Grown Recipes from the Green Mountain State
Author: Tracey Medeiros
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581571666
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Shares recipes and personal stories from farmers, chefs, and restaurateurs in Vermont.
Publisher: The Countryman Press
ISBN: 1581571666
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Shares recipes and personal stories from farmers, chefs, and restaurateurs in Vermont.
Green Mountains Farm
Author: Elliott Merrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960332403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780960332403
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Vermont Heritage
Author: H. Nicholas Muller, 3rd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944277270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contains selected published articles and chapters by two of Vermont's senior historians, each active in the field for half a century. Includes essays on Vermont historiography, Ethan and Ira Allen, early Vermont printing, eighteenth-century Vermont politics, War of 1812, Vermont's reaction to the 1837-38 Patriote Rebellion, and aspects of Victorian Vermont. Authors offer reminiscences and reflections on their lengthy Vermont careers in a joint Introduction. Edited by Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, with Foreword by David A. Donath. 401pages; illustrations, portraits. 28 cm., hardcover; bibliographical references and index.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780944277270
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Contains selected published articles and chapters by two of Vermont's senior historians, each active in the field for half a century. Includes essays on Vermont historiography, Ethan and Ira Allen, early Vermont printing, eighteenth-century Vermont politics, War of 1812, Vermont's reaction to the 1837-38 Patriote Rebellion, and aspects of Victorian Vermont. Authors offer reminiscences and reflections on their lengthy Vermont careers in a joint Introduction. Edited by Kristin Peterson-Ishaq, with Foreword by David A. Donath. 401pages; illustrations, portraits. 28 cm., hardcover; bibliographical references and index.
Calvin Coolidge, from a Green Mountain Farm to the White House
Author: Michael Edmund Hennessy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Green Mountain Farm
Author: Elliott Merrick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881504354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A story about the thrills and perils of renovating an old farm on a shoestring, a warm and wise book about living simply in the country while pursuing the writer's craft.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881504354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
A story about the thrills and perils of renovating an old farm on a shoestring, a warm and wise book about living simply in the country while pursuing the writer's craft.
Pride of the Green Mountains
Author: Carin Greenberg Baker
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613085816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now that Rosalie's father is off fighting in the Civil War, her mother wants to sell Major, the family's Morgan horse, to help makes end meet. How can Rosalie save him? Original.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780613085816
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Now that Rosalie's father is off fighting in the Civil War, her mother wants to sell Major, the family's Morgan horse, to help makes end meet. How can Rosalie save him? Original.