A Haven From Violence

About the Book

HEADLINE: Migrating suburbanite yuppies clash with traditional rural culture. Anthropologists inform us that when a technologically superior culture contacts a lesser one, the latter is always overcome and absorbed. Theories always sound good on paper, but a theory is no more than a hopeful recipe, and, by God!, when you´re stirring up a 30 gallon pot of scrapple, dumping in spices and sprinkling in cornmeal, you´d better hope your theory/recipe is valid or several half-tanked hog butcherers will run you across the back pasture with various sharp and lethal cutting utensils. Cell phone yuppies prevail over the country grapevine? SUV encased soccer-moms outpull a John Deere Model A? Humorless Dot com.ers outwit a jocular Pennsylvania Dutchman? Nah.

About the Author

Burl N. Corbett, the father of four children, was conceived, born and raised on a farm in South-Eastern Pennsylvania. Since graduating high school in 1965, he has worked on a mink farm, poured steel, driven the big rigs, baby!, loaded dynamite, chased the sun as a cross-country pipeliner, picked fruit with migrant workers, and tended bar on the Bowery. In 1967-68, he lived in Haight-Ashbury where he was head pallbearer in The Death of Hippie demonstration, and in Greenwich Village where he was manager of The East Village Other's back-issue office. Now, he's a restoration stone mason and lives on the family farm from which he will be removed only by body bag.