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Memoir explores couple's pursuit of agrarian dream

Michigan State University Press

A new memoir from the MSU Press looks at what happens when a professional couple decides to get in touch with their agrarian dream of life in the country. Richard Gilbert teaches writing at Otterbein College in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. He’s the author of “Shepherd”.Gilbert tells Current State’s Melissa Benmark that it’s a dream that goes back quite far for him. 

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