The Squire of Scrabble

Of books that are notably delightful, this one is more so than most. James Jackson Kilpatrick’s account of life, liberty, and the pursuit of zucchini in Rappahannock County, Virginia, displays him at his most persuasive, witty, and allusive; he is by turns attractively meditative and comical in the extreme.

It was in the year 1966 that Jack, having been for long in city pent, acquired a rundown farm near Washington, Virginia, eighty miles distant from another, more populous (though younger) community of the same name. With his good wife, Marie, calling the shots, the 36-acre tract swiftly ceased to be rundown.

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Louis D. Rubin Jr.

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Of books that are notably delightful, this one is more so than most. James Jackson Kilpatrick’s account of life, liberty, and the pursuit of zucchini in Rappahannock County, Virginia, displays him at his most persuasive, witty, and allusive; he is by turns attractively meditative and comical in the extreme.

It was in the year 1966 that Jack, having been for long in city pent, acquired a rundown farm near Washington, Virginia, eighty miles distant from another, more populous (though younger) community of the same name. With his good wife, Marie, calling the shots, the 36-acre tract swiftly ceased to be rundown.