Where the mountain stands alone : stories of place in the Monadnock Region / Howard Mansfield, editor

Published:: Hanover : University Press of New England, [2006]
Copyright Date:: ©2006
Physical Description:: viii, 369 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 31 cm
Additional Creators:: Mansfield, Howard and Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture

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Contents:

Introduction: The American quest for placelessness / Howard Mansfield -- Readings: Indians and wolves -- Sokoki homeland from Monadnock : K'naitobena Sokwaki / Marge Bruchac -- Phineas Stevens at the threshold of the frontier / David Stewart-Smith -- 11,000 years on the Ashuelot / Robert Goodby -- Borders and boundaries / John R. Harris -- The disorderly origins of the Granite State / Peter Sauer -- Journal: The lost child / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Report: The new road to Keene, 1839 -- Report: Connecticut River ferry, 1900 -- Parables of place / Tom Wessels -- Journal: Thoreau on Monadnock, 1860 / Henry David Thoreau -- Report: Following Thoreau / J. Parker Huber -- Recollections: Marlborough's granite quarry / John R. Harris -- A mill girl's offering / Ronald Jager -- The family history of water / Howard Mansfield -- "Plant your apples on the hills" / Jane Brox -- Recollections: Marion Davis, cattle drover / Mortimer Peebles -- The grange votes down automobiles / Haydn S. Pearson -- The last 113 people / Alan F. Rumrill -- Letter: Stoddard reawakening, 1946 / Charles L. Pierce -- Land of stone / Kevin Gardner -- Blueberry planet / Roger B. Swain -- The tragic life of William Preston Phelps / Edie Clark -- The poor farm / John R. Harris -- Recollections: The green army of Camp Annett / Jonathan Schach -- Recollections: Lost ski areas / Mortimer Peebles -- Readings: "What ails New England?" -- Readings: The folks of the Monadnock Region want you for a neighbor! -- Abbott Thayer in the spell of Monadnock / Richard Meryman -- Letter: A Dublin summer / Mark Twain -- Confessions of a part-time squire / Newton F. Tolman -- Report: How to build a house / Raphael Pumpelly -- Far from Nebraska's prairies / Linda Dyer -- Grandfather's farm / Nancy Hayden -- Back to the land / Edie Clark -- Getting out of the hole in Nelson / Jim Collins -- Eminent domain : evicted to create Pisgah Park / Elizabeth Getchell -- Recollections: Pisgah, a place apart / Jonathan Schach -- The return of the wild / Sy Montgomery -- Taxi / Ernest Hebert -- Il sentimento della casa (a sense of home) / Paul B. Hertneky -- "This is a great country, and don't forget it" / Dayton Duncan -- The last mill in town / Paul B. Hertneky -- Recollections: The working life, I. Marlborough Mill -- Recollections: The working life, II. Lawrence Tannery / Geoffrey Douglas -- "How did it go today?" / Martha Weinman Lear -- Letter: And not so well for others / Dawn Powell -- Drawing our desires : the endless Keene Bypass controversy / William Craig -- Recollections: The last train out of town / John R. Harris -- Quiet boomtown / Gerald Burns -- Report: New Hampshire by the numbers -- Is there a Monadnock land ethic? / Richard Ober -- Report: The last hurrah for New England thrift; or, Use it once, toss it out, buy more / Chesterfield Town Report -- Mr. Roy's market / Janisse Ray -- Our town / Tim Clark.

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ISBN:

1584655550 (cloth : alk. paper)
1584655569 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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"Published in cooperation with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture."

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-343) and index.

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