Pawlet For One Hundred Years

Pawlet For One Hundred Years

Hiel Hollister

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Alpha Editions
Año de edición:
2020
Materia
Historia general y mundial
ISBN:
9789354303630
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An intimate portrait of a town across its first century, recorded with care and attention.Small town life vividly remembered.Hiel Hollister’s Pawlet For One Hundred Years assembles official records, family recollections and municipal narrative into an illustrated historical account that deserves its place in any local history collection. As a historical nonfiction book it concentrates on the texture of everyday experience in rural New England life, offering forthright description rather than sweeping rhetoric. The text functions as a social history reference and a genealogy research resource: readers will find records, settlement patterns and community customs presented clearly enough for practical research, yet written with the humane cadence of a storyteller. Useful to students of nineteenth-century America and to those tracing Vermont town history, this work also speaks to wider concerns of community development studies by showing how ordinary institutions and relations settle into durable local practice. Regional history enthusiasts will welcome the detail; casual readers will be drawn by the quietly observant voice.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike. More than a repository of names and dates, Pawlet For One Hundred Years belongs among the small town chronicles that form the backbone of American local heritage: it is both sourcebook and narrative, archival resource and domestic portrait. The book bridges appetites and audiences; casual browsers will appreciate vivid scenes of work, worship and neighbourliness, while classic-literature collectors and archivists will prize an edition that honours the older voice and the documentary value. For anyone assembling a local shelf or researching family roots, this is a steady, readable companion - an accessible yet substantial entry in the study of community life. An essential find for collectors, libraries and local scholars alike.

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