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Title: Resilient: Living, Dying, and Rising in Rural America
Author: Raymond Adam Nadolny, PhD
Narrator: Raymond Adam Nadolny
Format: Unabridged
Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-23-17
Publisher: John Marshall Media
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
A new college president takes a fantastic journey in western North Dakota. He steps into an idyllic, rural community. But within a year, the small-town stage of Williston meteorically and unexpectedly shoots to world fame after the discovery of rich oil reserves far beneath the picturesque farmland.
Isolated, abandoned, and surrounded by turmoil, the college president joins forces with local heroes, leveraging the community, and the bottomless reservoir of resilience and do-it-yourself values, to keep their small town great.
Members Reviews:
Not so much of Greek myths as of Scottish poets......
This is a well written and well organized memoir with a touch of humor and
This is a well written and well organized memoir with a touch of humor and
a bit much pathos, but makes for a good read and one would hope some much needed review of the governing structure of North Dakota higher education. Nadolny would have us (by the cover) believe he is Sisyphus, and though he is, by any reasoning, a good and honorable man there is no approachment to be noted of the mythological. He makes the usual, and by now redundant, observations of the perceived travails of those who are "not one of us" in North Dakota, but strikes the mother lode when discussing the detachment, ineptness, and seemingly "out of my depth" nature of the folks who have recently been on the governing bodies of the North Dakota higher ecucation system. This short book should be required reading as well as Robert Burns poem where he suggests that we all need the gift to see ourselves "as others see us".
the background and set up was great, establishing the mise-en-scène of life in Williston and ...
I bought this book knowing a bit the background and context of what was happening during Dr. Nadolny's tenure. However, the background and set up was great, establishing the mise-en-scène of life in Williston and indeed North Dakota. It goes deep into what has happened and how, from the perspective of an overworked, besieged college president trying to do whats right in the endless parade of wackiness that's the Oil Patch. I loved hearing Dr. Nadolny's perspective and highly recommend if you fall into one or more of the following categories:
-Lived in or currently live in North Dakota
-Lived in or currently live in the neighboring states/provinces and wondered what happened in North Dakota circa 2009-2016
-Are a higher education professional of any ilk
-Like witty writing
I honestly couldn't put down the book and got through it rather quickly (that, and a few slow midshifts helped, too lol). Witty, sharp writing, informative excerpts and wonderfully selected quotes helped paint the picture and keep the narrative flowing without being overburdened.
I'd say read it, but if you haven't figured that out by now, I'm not overly sure of your command of the English language. Either way, give this a chance, and relive the glory days of when North Dakota had more money than sense.
Excellent read by Dr Nadolny
New appreciation for what he went through in Williston during the oil boom/bust.
