WHERE THE ROWS RUN LONG
Language: English
Published by Kinetic Digital Publishers, 2026
- Softcover
- New
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- Title
- WHERE THE ROWS RUN LONG
- Author
- Laine, Larry D.
- Publisher
- Kinetic Digital Publishers
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798902352495
Some childhood memories never really leave us.
They live in the smell of fresh-cut hay, the sound of milk striking a pail before sunrise, the crunch of leaves beneath a long driveway, and the sight of vineyard rows stretching toward the horizon.
In Where the Rows Run Long, Larry D. Laine takes readers back to a small California farm where childhood was shaped by hard work, family, faith, laughter, loss, and the quiet beauty of ordinary days.
These are stories of growing up on a farm before childhood had a name for nostalgia. There are tractors and dairy barns, grape harvests and almond orchards, river adventures and blackberry picking. There are family gatherings filled with laughter, grandparents whose lessons lasted a lifetime, a homemade bicycle built from discarded parts, and summer days when the river seemed to belong entirely to two boys.
But farm life was not always gentle.
Behind the memories are fear, loneliness, family fractures, separation, grief, and moments a child could not fully understand until many years later. Through those experiences, Laine discovers that resilience is often formed quietly, through the work that must be done and the people who keep showing up.
The stories also reach across generations, from Finnish immigrant grandparents who crossed an ocean to build a new life in California to the family members whose words, habits, faith, and example continued to shape the author long after childhood ended.
Tender without being sentimental, Where the Rows Run Long is a rural memoir about family history, farm life, childhood memories, and the unexpected lessons hidden inside ordinary days.
It is a story about what the land gives us, what family leaves with us, and what remains long after we have left home.
If you have ever wondered which moments from your childhood made you who you are, come walk the long rows with Larry D. Laine.
Some journeys are measured in miles.
The most important ones are measured in the memories we carry.
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