Wendell Berry returns to Port William, Kentucky, the fictional community he has chronicled for over half a century, with thirteen new stories spanning from World War II to the present. These late works carry the accumulated wisdom of Berry's decades attending to the same place and people, revealing what endures and what changes across generations. The stories continue the lives of characters readers may have encountered in earlier books while introducing new perspectives on familiar themes: the care of land and community, the costs of war and industrial agriculture, the sustaining power of marriage and friendship. Berry writes with the unhurried attention of someone who has spent a lifetime practicing what he preaches about staying put and paying attention. The collection includes elegiac reflections on deaths and departures alongside celebrations of work well done and love sustained. Berry's prose has grown more luminous with age, achieving effects that seem simple but reveal depths on rereading. The stories challenge contemporary culture's restlessness while acknowledging that even Port William cannot escape the forces transforming rural America. Berry writes as a witness to what has been lost and a keeper of what might yet be recovered, offering these stories as both record and resistance.