Author-Farmer to discuss work at Hendrix College
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Stanley Crawford, an author, activist and garlic farmer, will deliver a lecture entitled “Satirizing Criminals and Stealing Place,” part of the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language series exploring the theme “Crime.”
The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 16, in Reves Recital Hall, at Hendrix College. A book signing and reception in the Trieschmann Gallery will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
Crawford has been writing and farming in northern New Mexico for nearly 40 years. His work, which ranges from a satirical marriage manual to an account of his years working on an irrigation ditch to a monthly agricultural column, has received critical attention and acclaim for its consistently thoughtful focus on the meaning of place and community and how one can live a life that sustains both.
Drawing from his experiences as a small farmer and community member in northern New Mexico, Crawford’s work exposes the many environmental and cultural depredations of our consumer society and thoughtfully reflects on ways we can minimize such destruction.
He is the author of five novels: “Log of the S.S. The Mrs. Unguentine,” “Travel Notes,” “Gascoyne,” “Some Instructions to My Wife: Concerning the Upkeep of the House and Marriage and to My Son and Daughter Concerning the Conduct of Their Childhood” and, most recently, “Petroleum Man,” a trenchant satire that that challenges the dogmas of both sides of the current sociopolitical divide.
He has also published two memoirs: “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small Farm in New Mexico” and “Mayordomo: Chronicle of an Acequia in Northern New Mexico,” as well as a collection of non-fiction essays, “The River in Winter.” He has written numerous articles in various publications such as The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Double Take and Country Living. Crawford is co-proprietor with his wife, Rose Mary Crawford, of El Bosque Farm in Dixon, New Mexico.
Crawford has been the recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowships and a three-year Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Foundation Writer’s Award. He has held residencies at the MacDowell Colony; the Rockefeller Study Center in Bellagio, Italy; the Lannan Foundation in Marfa, Texas; and the Centrum Foundation in Port Townsend, Washington.
The event is sponsored by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language, which are designed to enhance and enrich the study and teaching of literature and language at Hendrix College. For more information about this and future events, contact Henryetta Vanaman at 501-450-4597 or vanaman@hendrix.edu.
