BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.getlocalhop.com//localhop-calendar//EN URL:https://api.getlocalhop.com/calendar?instance=ktKj6787u2&series=false BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event-instance-ktKj6787u2@events.getlocalhop.com SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260409T132117Z DTSTART:20250423T220000Z DTEND:20250423T230000Z SUMMARY:Julian Strauss\, HOME FARM: The Love of Place in a Changing World LOCATION:NEML's Annex (Main Room)\, 28 Century Blvd. Millerton\, NY 12546\ , Main Room DESCRIPTION:

Presented in partnership with Oblong Books.

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Registr ation encouraged\, not required.

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In conversation w ith David Stanford.

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Julian Stauss\ , local farmer\, veterinarian\, and artist\, will talk about his memoir\, which is rich in local history\, farm lore\, poetry\, and thoughts on agra rianism\, rural community\, and the past and future of agriculture. He cal ls his presentation (and slideshow) \"Is there a book in you?\"

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Structured around an 1867 daily work diary by Amenia Union f armer Ed Dean\, Home Farm is elaborately enriched by Julian's own farm dia ry entries\, commentaries\, poems\, stories\, and observations\, including how-to's and farm-life fundamentals &mdash\; fence-building\, machinery-l oving\, tool-using\, everything-fixing\, hard-working\, maple-syruping\, a nd good-neighboring. It is rich in local history\, and expresses Julian's passion for agrarianism\, for rural community\, and for the past and futur e of agriculture. Essays by his grown children add further perspective to this wide-ranging consideration of the changes and continuities of farming \, from the 1800s to now. \;

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Julian Strauss wa s born in Amenia in 1936\, just as his German father and French mother\, f leeing the rise of Nazism in Europe\, arrived and bought a farm that had b een founded in 1767. Growing up on a dairy farm shaped Julian's interests\ , and led him to study at Cornell and become a veterinarian\, which led to 14 years working abroad in tropical and exotic environments\, followed by a period in academia. In 1976 his father retired. Julian returned to Home Farm and opened a farm vet practice which he pursued for over 40 years. R etired as a veterinarian\, he continues to fix fences\, raise animals\, ma ke maple syrup\, turn fallen trees into lumber\, do woodworking\, and crea te art.bHe and his wife Betsy\, an experienced local historian\, live on H ome Farm near Amenia.

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Copies of Home Farm will be available for purchase at this event.

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