Author of Poetry Book Donates Proceeds to OLT

Otsego Land Trust is pleased to announce that author Nancy Huxtable Mohr is donating all proceeds of her first book, The Well, Poems from Twin Pines Farm, to the organization.

Mohr draws inspiration for the poems from her own childhood experiences at Twin Pines Farm, a two hundred-year-old family farm in Upstate New York, and from ancestral documents and correspondence found in a pine trunk. The first part of the book highlights the lives of Mohr’s four grandmothers, beginning with the initial settlement of Twin Pines Farm in 1795. The women’s thoughts, permeated throughout the poems, ebb and flow from homesteading and planting peonies to infant mortality and the threat of war. In the second part, Mohr’s poems transition to her own life on the farm as a child, growing up with her parents and siblings. However, a common thread between the two halves exists: how the women on the farm throughout time persisted and sustained the farm and the land.

Most of the land at Twin Pines Farm is protected through a conservation easement granted to Otsego Land Trust. Nancy Huxtable Mohr graduated from Cornell University and has a California State Teacher’s Credential from San Francisco State. She has worked in the arts both professionally and as a volunteer for 50 years. Mohr now lives in Northern California with her husband, Larry.

The Well can be purchased on Amazon. For more information on readings, Twin Pines Farm, and Nancy Huxtable Mohr’s poetry, please visit NancyHuxtableMohr.org.

Mohr will be giving a lecture at the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown on Saturday, July 14 from 3:30-4:30pm on the Civil War and its impacts on rural farming communities in New York State. Her discussion will also include readings from her book. For more informative, please visit farmersmuseum.org.