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Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society

Author: Vermont Historical Society
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Proceedings of the Vermont Historical Society

Author: Vermont Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Reprints from Vermont History

Author: Vermont Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Endangered Alphabets

Author: Tim Brookes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984196777
Category : Alphabet in art
Languages : en
Pages : 185

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"The world has more than 6,000 languages, but those languages are written in fewer than 100 alphabets--more than a third of which are endangered. Oddly gnarly or staggeringly beautiful, all of them embody the history and intellectual achievements of their cultures. Some are now used only in ceremonial documents, some in magic spells, some in secret love letters. In this groundbreaking project, author Tim Brookes has carved thirteen of these endangered alphabets into stunning boards of Vermont maple, using as his text Article One of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: 'All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.' This book is both the catalogue for that exhibition and an essay on writing from a unique perspective--that of a writer who is discovering new forms of writing by carving them before they vanish."--cover, p.4

The Vermont Historical Gazetteer

Author: Abby Maria Hemenway
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Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 1136

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Vermont Historical Resources

Author: University of Vermont. Bailey/Howe Library. Wilbur Collection
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 21

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Freedom and Unity

Author: Michael Sherman
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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Charity and Sylvia

Author: Rachel Hope Cleves
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199335451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.