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Louis Bromfield and Loving the Land in Ohio

Destination: Ohio

Book: Pleasant Valley (1945) by Louis Bromfield

View of Malabar Farm from road
View of Malabar Farm from the County Road, Malabar Farm State Park, Ohio

Louis Bromfield definitely got me thinking.  About the complex man who won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and made waves along with contemporaries Sinclair Lewis and Hemingway and Fitzgerald, and why Bromfield has sunk out of view. About why he left his global meanderings to return to a farm in Ohio where he grew up. And about the quiet beauty of the countryside near where I grew up. Continue reading Louis Bromfield and Loving the Land in Ohio