"The romance, foolhardiness, and grit that define farming and the American agrarian dream come charging to life in this loving but realistic account of one family, one Arkansas delta farm from the Civil War to the present—a place that shaped, in Bolsterli's words, 'the landscape of our minds.'" —Jo McDougall, author of Dirt and Towns Facing Railroads "I wondered as I read During Wind and Rain what families in the Delta would recognize their family in the Jones story. Many, I suspect . . . I loved the way the family history is woven into the story of the land." —Mary Gay Shipley, owner, That Bookstore in Blytheville "If this richly endowed and sadly altered land could tell its own story, Bolsterli's family saga comes as close to it as I can imagine. In a voice both elegant and wise, this native daughter, returned to a Delta world transformed almost but not quite beyond recognition, recounts what was lost and gained by those who over many generations made a life as well as a living from this ground." —Grey Osterud, Rural Women's Studies Association "Treated within a broad context and written in clear, graceful prose, this work effectively combines meticulous scholarship with the author's own first-hand knowledge of a particular place, its people and their culture, to produce a multi-dimensional story that reveals, with great skill and sensitivity, the forces that shaped the lives of multiple generations of her family. This volume will be read with much pleasure and great profit." —Willard Gatewood, co-editor of The Arkansas Delta: Land of Paradox