Hope Farm Notes: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Hope Farm Notes, credited to Herbert W. Collingwood, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Hope Farm Notes by Herbert W. Collingwood. Read by LibriVox Volunteers “Most of these notes were originally printed in the Rural New-Yorker from week to week and covering a period of about 20 years. . . . From the very first the object of these notes has been to picture simply and truthfully the brighter, cheerful side of Farm Life.” (From the author’s preface) Herbert W. Collingwood gives us a delightful collection of essays reflecting his homespun wisdom and wit from the rural setting of the farm in early twentieth century America. He touches on subjects from baseball to Christmas, all reflecting his treasured values of home and family. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Recording facts

• Recording title: Hope Farm Notes
• Author credits: Herbert W. Collingwood
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 31
• Listed recording duration: 6:48:54

Catalogue topics

• essays
• farming
• farm life
• rural
• early twentieth century
• rural new yorker

Opening tracks: first 24 of 31

1. 00 - Preface — 1:32
2. 01 - The Sunny Side of the Barn Part 1 — 15:42
3. 02 - The Sunny Side of the Barn Part 2 — 15:31
4. 03 - A Hope Farm Sermon — 8:59
5. 04 - Grandmother — 13:28
6. 05 - Laughter and Religion — 8:31
7. 06 - A Day in Florida — 13:37
8. 07 - The Baseball Game — 9:18
9. 08 - Transplanting the Young Idea — 10:55
10. 09 - The Sleepless Man — 8:41
11. 10 - Lincoln’s Birthday — 9:26
12. 11 - Uncle Ed’s Philosophy — 10:30
13. 12 - A God-forsaken Place — 12:03
14. 13 - Louise — 11:06
15. 14 - Christmas Every Day — 9:38
16. 15 - ''The Finest Lesson'' — 24:34
17. 16 - ''Columbus Day'' — 14:18
18. 17 - The Commencement — 14:17
19. 18 - ''Organization'' — 14:24
20. 19 - The Face of Liberty — 14:36
21. 20 - Captain Randall’s Hour — 14:42
22. 21 - ''Snow Bound'' — 15:05
23. 22 - ''Class'' — 14:43
24. 23 - ''I’ll Tell God'' — 18:29

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