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Walt Wingfield, the character beloved by thousands in every part of the country, is back with a new and complete book, with a new introduction from the author. nbsp; Walt Wingfield is a Bay Street stockbroker who quits his job and buys a hundred-acre farm in Persephone Township, Ontario. In a series of letters to the editor of the local newspaper, Walt chronicles his modest successes and spectacular defeats in an age when farming has become difficult for farmers old and new. Dan Needles' rich and charming rural neighbourhood may be difficult to find on a map but it is very close to the Canadian soul. nbsp; Including a new introduction from Dan Needles, the writer who brought this marvellous world to life 27 years ago, and all your favourite mishaps, triumphs and eccentric neighbours Wingfield's World is the full story of one man's attempt to embrace a less complicated world and how he ends up with more complication and drama, and more love and richness than he could have imagined. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Walt Wingfield decides to abandon city life and his job as a high-powered stockbroker to pursue a simple life on a small farm in Persephone County. He is determined to farm the way people used to when this land was first broken. That means he is going to use horses to do the plowing, seeding, harvesting etc. It also means he is going to subsist on what he can earn from the farm. Pretty soon he discovers that farming is not as simple as he thought. His letters to the local newspaper talk about the challenges he faces from trying to get his pair of horses to actually pull equipment to keeping his chickens alive. He learns a lot as he goes along, mostly from his neighbours who are somewhat bemused by his efforts but do chip in to help when it becomes obvious Walt is flailing. As Walt is learning to farm he is also learning to romance the single woman on the next farm. And as the old rhyme goes "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby carriage."
There are seven years worth of letters from Wingfield Farm. Each year has been made into a play and those plays have been performed all over Canada. I've seen a few and they are very good. The actor, Rod Beattie, delivers the lines that Dan Needles wrote with the appropriate diction, expression and gestures. The whole time I was reading this book I was seeing Rod Beattie in my mind.
If you have seen the plays you will enjoy the book. And if you haven't seen the plays you will want to after you read this book. Neither will disappoint. ( )