When Whippoorwills Call
When Whippoorwills Call
a back to the land memoir by Larry Vogt
As part of the back-to-the-land movement of the mid-1970s, Larry Vogt and his wife retreated from the cosmopolitan West Coast to build a remote homestead in the rugged hills of south-central Kentucky. In this heartfelt memoir, Vogt recalls the rewards and sacrifices of those years—including delivering two of his daughters with his own hands in a makeshift dwelling far off the grid—with tenderness and the best kind of masculine pride. A true pioneer in reverse, he was a determined and resourceful protector of his family, competently dealing with broken-down trucks, punishing weather, and a breathtaking but unforgiving landscape. He was ready for all of it, until he wasn’t. But his lyrical dream of a life on the land burns bright in him still, flaring on every one of these pages. —Kevin Nance
