Magazines like Grit, Mother Earth News, Mary Jane's Farm, Hobby Farm Home
Ghost towns
Good pie
Movies like The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, Mame (Rosalind Russell's version), early Barbara Stanwyck flicks, pre-code Hollywood films, 1950s and 60s westerns.
Local wildflowers and plants - Queen Anne's Lace, ferns, bleeding heart, black-eyed susan.
Books like "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society", Laurie R King's series about Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes, tons of non-fiction "how-to" books, "Pride and Prejudice", "Hit by a Farm", Mary Jane's Idea Book.
Coffee before the sun comes up. Summer evenings that stay light until 9:30 pm, the Winter Solstice.
The persistence of slugs, the importance of bees, the need for worms and the webs of spiders.
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