Heartland Portrait: Stories and Essays of Rural Life

Heartland Portrait: Stories From the Rural Midwest is a self-portrait drawn from eighteen years of Free River Press writing workshops with farm families, small town and village residents, commercial fishermen, towboat captains and others living in the Upper Mississippi River Valley. It is a record of the transformation of rural America, an ensemble of personal stories that document not only loss in rapidly changing times but success in adapting and preserving a way of life.