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This book is indebted, as most of my books have been, to my conversation with my brother, John Marshall Berry, Jr. That conversation began in earnest half a century ago and ended just a few days before he died on October 27, 2016.

Our conversation remained from beginning to end under the influence of our father, of his devotion to farming, of his work in behalf of the small farmers of our region, and of our conversation with him.

That conversation was taken up many years ago between Tanya Berry and me. It continues between us and our children and their children.

This is the conversation of agrarians and agrarianism, far larger, older, and longer than our family or any family can remember, involving some people we know, and many we don’t know.

I dedicate this book to that conversation and to all of its members, once, now, and to come.