Beginnings working on sheep stations in

working on sheep stations in order to make his living

also spends her holidays

In his community

plays cards three times a week when possible (Double Pinochle and Hand and Foot) and always watches Joel Osteen on Sundays

sewage systems

Beginnings working on sheep stations inBeginnings is a sprawling story of an American century, set in the Tyrolean and Italian immigrant communities of Pennsylvania. Louise and Stanley and their daughter Gena struggle to make peace with their pasts, fall into and out of love, and experience tragedy and joy against the backdrop of passing decades and changing social mores. By turns elegant, romantic, and devastating, it is a portrait of hopes and compromised dreams, of church dances,