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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 Wendell Berry: Port William Novels & Stories, The Civil War to World War II. Library of America, 2018—with the exception of the uncollected "A Clearing" and "Don't Send a Boy to Do a Man's Work" (1891) because it was originally a section of—and will be eventually re-published by LoA in—the novel Jayber Crow.

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)

A Clearing (ca. 1944) - uncollected, The Hudson Review, Autumn 2018

Drouth (1944) A Place in Time

Stand By Me (1921–1944) A Place in Time

A World Lost (1944)

A Place on Earth (1945)

Making It Home (1945) Fidelity

Not a Tear (1945) A Place in Time

Nothing Living Lives Alone (1945) - uncollected, The Threepenny Review, Spring 2011

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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 (1949) uncollected, published by Larkspur Press

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) uncollected, published by Larkspur Press

At Home (1981) A Place in Time

The Inheritors (1986) That Distant Land 

Sold (1991) A Place in Time

Hannah Coulter (1922-2000)

The Branch Way of Doing (2004)*  The Art of Loading Brush

A Place in Time (1938-2008) A Place in Time

The Order of Loving Care (2017)* The Art of Loading Brush

A Long Ancestry (2017)* The Art of Loading Brush

A Time and Times and the Dividing of Time (1861, 1944, 2018)* uncollected, The Threepenny Review, Fall 2021

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Barring definitive information upon re-publication, the following stories from The Art of Loading Brush (2017) remain officially undated, but I have taken some informed guesses, as above. 

The Order of Loving Care  The Art of Loading Brush

A Long Ancestry  The Art of Loading Brush

The Branch Way of Doing  The Art of Loading Brush

The Art of Loading Brush  The Art of Loading Brush

***

The following stories have not yet been collected and are not easily dated:

Dismemberment - The Threepenny Review, Summer 2015

One Nearly Perfect Day - Sewanee Review, Summer 2015

How It Went  - Sewanee Review, Summer 2016

A Conversation - The Threepenny Review, Winter 2020.

 

*Tentative Dating

 

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