Uncle Will of Wildwood Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass

This warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass recalls a special moment in Kentucky's past. It was a time of self-sufficient country estates; a time when, as Thomas D. Clark writes in his introduction, ?every Bluegrass farm gate was the entryway into a ruggedly independent domain.' Wildwood was such a domain, ruled by the titular Uncle Will of this classic book. Everything at Wildwood revolved around Will Goddard, who was ?a cross between a hurricane and an electric fan.' The irrepressible Uncle Will, with his mad dashes to Harrodsburg for mowing-machine parts, his habit of leaving his stallion, Black Joe, unhitched, and his uncanny perception of the potential of a horse, became a family and community legend.McVey, Frances Jewell is the author of 'Uncle Will of Wildwood Nineteenth-Century Life in the Bluegrass', published 2005 under ISBN 9780813191478 and ISBN 0813191475.