If there's squash bugs in heaven, I ain't staying
by Stacia Spragg-Braude ; with photographs by the author.
- Santa Fe, New Mexico Museum of New Mexico Press
- 199 p.
Prelude -- [1] Spring -- Dream Whip -- The Blackberry Patch -- Planting Time -- The Farm -- Morning with the Spirits -- Para Corrales -- Taking Root -- The Memory of Dirt -- [2] Summer -- If There's Squash Bugs in Heaven, I Ain't Staying -- Lunchtime -- Secrets of a Fabulous Pie Crust, and Other Life Mysteries Revealed -- To Market, To Market -- Kitchen Counter -- Evelyn's Spice Garden -- Dare I Eat a Peach? -- Call the Police, Evelyn's Making Pickles -- Rhapsody in Blue -- [3] Fall -- Summer's Prize -- "I didn't know we still had farmers" -- Listening to Pictures -- Going Home -- How to Slice an Apple -- Cider Time -- [4] Winter -- Hot Tamales -- Winter's Time -- A Field on the Edge of Winter -- [5] Spring -- Spring, Again.
"Don't let the quaint and homespun title fool you. This book is a beautifully written and engaging homage to Evelyn Curtis Losack, a woman farmer and water rights activist from Corrales, New Mexico, a small community on the northern outskirts of Albuquerque. Through the sensitive journalist eye of writer/photographer Stacia Braude-Spragg, this book is a personal introduction to a life well lived, one with conviction, which will have universal appeal."--Amazon.com.