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Category : Connecticut River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts: History of Franklin County. History of Hampden County
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 900
Book Description
History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts: History of the Connecticut Valley in Massachusetts. History of Hampshire County
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Connecticut River Valley
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
The Geological History of the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts
Author: William John MillerPublisher:
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 94
Book Description
History of Western Massachusetts
Author: Josiah Gilbert HollandPublisher:
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Category : Berkshire County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
History of Western Massachusetts
Author: Josiah Gilbert HollandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berkshire County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Public Documents of Massachusetts
Author: MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 1620
Book Description
Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
Author: State Library of MassachusettsPublisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
History of Western Massachusetts
Author: Josiah Gilbert HollandPublisher:
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Category : Berkshire County (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
A Guide to Massachusetts Local History
Author: Charles Allcott FlaggPublisher:
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Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860
Author: J. Ritchie GarrisonPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9781572332065
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
This innovative study draws on anthropology, archaeology, art history, folklore, and history to illuminate the rich texture of a historic landscape and the complex process by which it changed over a ninety-year period between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Focusing on Franklin County in the upper Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts, a landscape that shares many characteristics with greater New England and with the rural North, Garrison describes the region's town plans, agricultural patterns, dwellings, barns, outbuildings, fences, and transportation networks--and how they changed. He demonstrates that the transformation of this rural landscape was a dynamic process, a complex interaction between tradition and innovation, driven by people's shifting expectations about material life. Garrison's carefully researched, narrative study begins with the lives of individual inhabitants and from them generates a larger picture. Who lived in Franklin County, what they thought and wrote about, what choices they made and what principles they lived by, what buildings and crops they raised and with what tools and methods, how they organized their homes, family life, farms, and workspaces, what they did with their leisure time, how they spent their money or manifested their social status--these are the topics of his investigation. His study provides insight into the changing values that accompanied the transition from an agrarian to an industrial society and raises questions about the nature of tradition and the character of American -folklife.- The Author: J. Ritchie Garrison is associate director of the Museum Studies Program and assistant professor of history at the University of Delaware.