The following is excerpted from A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, 1949
Oxford University Paperback, pp. 44-46, 1968.

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Every July I watch eagerly a certain country graveyard that I pass in driving to and from my farm. It is time for a prairie birthday, and in one corner of this graveyard lives a surviving celebrant of that once important event. Continue reading →