Conservative Conversations with ISI: Episode 9 - Gracy Olmstead, Agriculture, Localism, and Rootedness
 
 In this episode... 

• A listener question on the authors that influenced the hosts the most
• Gracy Olmstead, a Top 20 Under 30 ISI Alumna, on localism and agriculture

 Links: 

• Register for the ISI Inaugural Homecoming Weekend 
• Front Porch Republic
• Conservative Conversations episode with Tim Carney and Rusty Reno
• Small-Town Natives Are Moving Back Home, Gracy Olmstead

 Books Mentioned:

• Uprooted, Gracy Olmstead
• Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
• House Keeping, Marilynne Robinson
• East of Eden, John Steinbeck
• Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
• Landmarks, Robert McFarland
• Pastoral Song, James Rebanks
• The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkein
• Up to Heaven and Down to Hell, Colin Jerolmack
• Remembering, Wendell Berry
• Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs, Wallace Stegner
• Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
• Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry
• The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Rod Dreher
• Hillbilly Elegy, J. D. Vance
• Heartland, Sarah Smarsh
• Hollowing out the Middle, Patrick Carr and Maria Kefalas

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