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A Look Back at a Back-to-the-Land Childhood with Sarah Neidhardt

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'Twenty Acres' is published by the University of Arkansas Press
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Sarah Neidhardt’s childhood sounds like something from a Laura Ingalls Wilder book. Her parents moved to the Ozarks in the 1970s as part of the back-to-the-land movement. The bohemian counterculture meets pioneer homemaking story sounds romantic, but Sarah’s memoir Twenty Acres paints a sober and compassionate telling of her unconventional life.

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Matthew Moore is senior producer for Ozarks at Large.