Mary Clearman Blew is an English professor at the University of Idaho. She has written a lot of books and stories, most of them autobiographical. This latest collection is a series of autobiographical tales, most of whose chapters had appeared in print elsewhere as independent essays.
I review it because in addition to being eminently readable it includes a few juicy sections on life as a “home schooler” of sorts in rural Montana during the 1940s. (more…)
A second, fully revised edition of my 2008 book Homeschool: An American History, was published in March of 2017. 
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