1929 by Sean O'Faolain
Production by Douglas Cleverdon
Sean O'Faolain recalls twelve months in the United States as they appeared to a young Irishman, a disillusioned romantic -New York at the beginning of the slump. a student's life at Harvard, a Baptist settlement in the Appalachians, an apple orchard in New Mexico. But after he had toured America in a Model T Ford - one of the old Flying Bedsteads - the truth of Henry James' words was borne in upon him: The flower of art blooms only where the soil is deep'; and soon he found himself again in his native Ireland