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Port William: Narrative Chronology

Here are the stories of Port William, listed according to narrative chronology (the order in which the events of the stories occur). Each is followed by the collection in which it may be found.

To that point, each of the short stories from "The Girl in the Window" to "Not a Tear" are collected in Library of America's Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II—with the exception of  "A Clearing" (now in How It Went) and "Don't Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work" (1891) because it was originally a section of the novel Jayber Crow (and will be republished in the next volume from Library of America).

Where a story has several dates, the most recent is used for the chronology.

The Girl in the Window (1864) A Place in Time
The Hurt Man (1888) That Distant Land
"Don't Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work" (1891) Jayber Crow (ch. 21) and That Distant Land
Fly Away, Breath (1907) A Place in Time
A Consent (1908) Watch With Me
Pray Without Ceasing (1912) Fidelity
Watch With Me (1916) Watch With Me
A Half-Pint of Old Darling (1920) Watch With Me
The Lost Bet (1929) Watch With Me
Nathan Coulter (1929–1941)
Down in the Valley Where the Green Grass Grows (1930) A Place in Time
Thicker than Liquor (1930) The Wild Birds
Nearly to the Fair (1932) Watch With Me
Burley Coulter’s Fortunate Fall (1934) A Place in Time
The Solemn Boy (1934) Watch With Me
A Jonquil for Mary Penn (1940) Fidelity
Turn Back the Bed (1941) Watch With Me
A Burden (1882, 1907, 1941) A Place in Time
A Desirable Woman (1938–1941) A Place in Time
Misery (1943) A Place in Time
Andy Catlett: Early Education (1943) A Place in Time
Andy Catlett: Early Travels (1943)
Drouth (1944) A Place in Time
Stand By Me (1921–1944) A Place in Time
A World Lost (1944)
A Place on Earth (1945)
The Divide (V-J Day) How It Went
Making It Home (1945) Fidelity
Not a Tear (1945) A Place in Time
One Nearly Perfect Day (1946) How It Went
Where Did They Go? (1947) The Wild Birds
The Dark Country (1948) A Place in Time
The Bringer of Water (1949), a verse drama found in Farming: A Hand Book
A New Day (1949) A Place in Time
One of Us (1950) How It Went
Mike (1939-1950) A Place in Time
The Memory of Old Jack (1952)
It Wasn’t Me (1953) The Wild Birds
The Boundary (1965) The Wild Birds
That Distant Land (1965) The Wild Birds
Who Dreamt This Dream? (1966) A Place in Time
A Friend of Mine (1967) That Distant Land 
The Wild Birds (1967) The Wild Birds
Jayber Crow (1969)
The Requirement (1970) A Place in Time
Are You All Right? (1973) Fidelity
An Empty Jacket (1974) A Place in Time
Remembering (1976)
Fidelity (1977) Fidelity
The Great Interruption ... (1935-1978) How It Went
At Home (1981) A Place in Time
The Inheritors (1986) That Distant Land 
Sold (1991) A Place in Time
Hannah Coulter (1922-2000)
How It Went (1979-1994-2002) How It Went
The Branch Way of Doing (1932-2004) How It Went
A Place in Time (1938-2008) A Place in Time
Dismemberment (1974-2008) How It Went
A Conversation (1943-2013) How It Went
A Clearing (1945-2014) How It Went
The Art of Loading Brush (2015) How It Went
Time Out of Time (1947-2015) How It Went
The Order of Loving Care (2017) The Art of Loading Brush
A Time and Times and the Dividing of Time (1944-2019) How It Went
A Rainbow (1945-1975-2021) How It Went

NOTE: "Nothing Living Lives Alone" was originally published in The Threepenny Review (Spring 2011) and was chosen as a PEN/O. Henry Prize Story, 2012. The third section of this story has been published as "Time Out of Time (1947-2015)" in the 2022 collection How It Went.

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