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Author | : Brattleboro Historical Society |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738508726 |
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Family stories are a part of oral history. They are told to inform younger generations about events heretofore not recorded. Brattleboro Remembers is a collection of such stories accompanied by the rich assortment of historical photographs that stirred these memories of earlier days in the southeastern corner of Vermont. Brattleboro Remembers emerged as a result of writing workshops sponsored by the Brattleboro Historical Society and made possible by a grant from the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont. The workshops, facilitated by poet and writing partner Verandah Porche, took place on winter Sunday afternoons. The walls of the room in which the group met were covered with copies of historical photographs. The workshop participants, most of whom still live in Brattleboro, selected photographs that brought back strong recollections. After studying an image, they wrote autobiographical pieces based on what came to mind. For those shy about putting pen to paper, volunteer scribes were on hand to listen to the stories and help the participants get their reminiscences down on paper.
Author | : Brattleboro Historical Society |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2001-10-24 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439611203 |
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Family stories are a part of oral history. They are told to inform younger generations about events heretofore not recorded. Brattleboro Remembers is a collection of such stories accompanied by the rich assortment of historical photographs that stirred these memories of earlier days in the southeastern corner of Vermont. Brattleboro Remembers emerged as a result of writing workshops sponsored by the Brattleboro Historical Society and made possible by a grant from the Council on Aging for Southeastern Vermont. The workshops, facilitated by poet and writing partner Verandah Porche, took place on winter Sunday afternoons. The walls of the room in which the group met were covered with copies of historical photographs. The workshop participants, most of whom still live in Brattleboro, selected photographs that brought back strong recollections. After studying an image, they wrote autobiographical pieces based on what came to mind. For those shy about putting pen to paper, volunteer scribes were on hand to listen to the stories and help the participants get their reminiscences down on paper.
Author | : Matthew Whalan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 99 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
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Down and Out in Brattleboro: A Love Story is the oral history of Howie and Carmel, an everyday American couple in a small town: Who they are, how they met, the struggles they've endured throughout their lives (together and separately), what they are working on now, where they came from, and where they're going. Originally intended to be a short conversation about an idea for a community garden project in memory of friends who have died of overdoses in Brattleboro, the discussion instead blossoms into the love story of Howie and Carmel's lives.
Author | : Fran Lynggaard Hansen |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2009-06-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1625842554 |
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Founded as Fort Dummer in 1724, from its earliest days the town that would become Brattleboro enjoyed beautiful views and a strong spirit. It quickly grew into a home for Vermont industry and pleasure, attracting tourists, traders and innovators from across the region. Former Brattleboro Reformer contributor Fran Lynggaard Hansen describes the towns history through highlights from her Downstreet column, including accounts of the 1848 smallpox outbreak, the founding of the Estey Organ Company, the construction of the Harris Ski Jump, the story behind George Crowells Lindenhurst mansion and the efforts of the dedicated volunteers who launched the first Winter Carnival. Portraying residents at work, at play, and in service to one another, she captures the essence of Brattleboros enduring charm.
Author | : Brattleboro Historical Society |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738504742 |
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Brattleboro, lies in the southeast corner of Vermont, just nine miles north of the Massachusetts border and directly across the Connecticut River from New Hampshire. The community developed in the 1760s, when European American settlers established homes in the river valley. Brattleboro was ideal for settlement because of its topography. The Whetstone Brook, which runs from the foothills of the Green Mountains through Brattleboro, provided a major source of waterpower, and the Connecticut River offered an ideal transportation route for sending finished products via flat-bottomed boat to market in southern New England and New York. Brattleboro presents the story of its people, who from the beginning have exhibited and benefited from a positive philosophy toward life. In the mid-1800s, railroad service came to the area and Brattleboro developed as a center for commerce, health spas, and literary activities. Factories manufacturing organs, toys, and furniture thrived. Printing and publishing industries, as well as literary societies flourished. Hotels opened, and visitors arrived to do business or just to avail themselves of the town's many advantages. To this day, the area continues to enjoy a stable economy.
Author | : George Haven Putnam |
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Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Harold A. Barry |
Publisher | : Stephen Greene Press |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Total Pages | : 1118 |
Release | : 1917 |
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Author | : Raymond Mungo |
Publisher | : Catapult |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2014-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1940436044 |
Download Total Loss Farm: A Year in the Life Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In making her selection for Pharos Editions, Dana Spiotta tells us how drawn she was by the work of Raymond Mungo. "[He] writes . . . about his own joy and his own pain, he is particularly good when he describes the land around him and how it feels on his body." Indeed, if Henry David Thoreau had downed a handful of liberty caps before penning Walden it would have read much like Mungo's Total Loss Farm, a rollicking memoir of the late 1960's back–to–the–earth movement. Written in a limber prose style formed by the tempo of the times, Mungo takes us into the cultural tsunami of a failed radical politics as it broke on the shoals of a drug–fueled personal freedom and washed inland across the farmlands of Vermont, leaving a trail of damage and redemption in its wake. Total Loss Farm attracted widespread critical and commercial attention in 1970, when the "back–to–the–land" hippie commune movement first emerged. The book's first section, "Another Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers," appeared as the cover article in the May 1970 issue of Atlantic Monthly. The hardcover first edition from Dutton was quickly followed by paperback editions from Bantam, Avon, and Madrona Publishers, keeping the book in print for several decades. Very recently, Dwight Garner in the New York Times Book Review cited Total Loss Farm as "the best and also the loopiest of the commune books."
Author | : John N. Houpis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Brattleboro (Vt.) |
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