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1985
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1st ed.
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[In] Vermont Saints & Sinners, you'll meet grave robbers, horse thieves, war heroes, genius inventors, religious fanatics, ne'er-do-wells, adventurers, stalwart immigrants, and many others.
To uncover these characters and the events in which they found themselves, author Lee Dana Goodman dusted off century-old court and jailhouse records, slogged through many of Vermont's numerous (and revealing) graveyards, and deciphered handwritten, eyewitness...
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"'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks, those that are honest about the past and those that are not, that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves" --
Beginning in his hometown...
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Pub. Date
c2010
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In 1790, about 90% of Vermonters lived on and earned at least part of their livelihood from farming. In 2009, about 1% of the state's population lived on Vermont's 1,050 dairy farms. As historians have noted, America was born in the country and has moved to the city. By our breakfast, dairy farmers have put in half a day's work. By noon, many have logged an eight-hour day. By nightfall, they have often added another eight-hour day. Given the long...
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Pub. Date
1986
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Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales, and traditions of four major native American groups from their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present. The book is based on some 240 folklore texts gathered from early colonial writings, newspapers, magazines, diaries, local histories, anthropology and folklore publications, a variety of unpublished manuscript sources, and field research...
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2009
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“Fun, charming . . . includes not only locales with reported ghosts, but also sites with macabre (though not haunted) histories” (True Crime Librarian).
Visitors and New England natives alike will see a new side of the region through Thomas D’Agostino’s road trip guidebook. He captures the reader’s imagination with folklore and anecdotes, plus recommendations useful for...
Visitors and New England natives alike will see a new side of the region through Thomas D’Agostino’s road trip guidebook. He captures the reader’s imagination with folklore and anecdotes, plus recommendations useful for...
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In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world's first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres.
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undated
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1
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Autobiography of Wilmer W. Angell, M.D. from Randolph, VT covering the years 1901-1974. List of Chapters: Part One (1901-1942) 1. Early Years -- 2. High School -- 3. Dartmouth College -- 4. Salesman -- 5. Dartmouth Again -- 6. Deckhand to Europe -- 7. Dartmouth Medical School -- 8. Mary Hitchcock Hospital -- 9. Harvard Medical School -- 10. Ogden, Utah -- 11. Beginning Private Practice -- 12. Getting About -- 13. The Flood and the Fire -- 14. Sickness...
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"What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome's northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell....
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