Sullivan's Corner: The Last Years of the Farm

By Thomas Clasby

Through eight decades, the Sullivan farm in Ipswich, Massachusetts, practiced traditional small-scale mixed husbandry. By the middle years of the twentieth century, that system and this farm had both outlasted their time. In those final years the lingering vestiges of a largely un-mechanized, almost pre-modern way of life fell away, scarcely noticed. This is a tale of several lives that finished with the farm. They were lives of small rewards and occasional hardships, but they were full lives—sustained by a mix of resourcefulness and acceptance—and they were lives that revered the land they occupied. In recounting these lives, the story touches inevitably on matters of change and impermanence.

Softcover, 127 pages, 6 x 0.5 x 9". Black & White Images.

Copyright 2018 Thomas Clasby with Grasshopper Plain Press.