Author: Michael WesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9780937992012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The history of the Windham, Connecticut town farm and almshouse and the services to the poor in Connecticut
The Road to the Poorhouse
Author: Michael WesterfieldPublisher:
ISBN: 9780937992012
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
The history of the Windham, Connecticut town farm and almshouse and the services to the poor in Connecticut
The Poor House
Author: Anthony PerryPublisher: The Purpose In The Way
ISBN: 144953046X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This fictional delight is about the healing and abundant life that comes when we learn to submit ourselves entirely to God and God's kingdom in this life. Anthony Perry uses real life experiences in a fictional backdrop to create a life changing and transforming work. This book will challenge and stretch your view and beliefs about what it means to be a Christian.
Our Paper
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
The Poorhouse
Author: David WagnerPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461645204
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the 'Monopoly' game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Surprisingly these institutions variously named poorhouses, poor farms, sometimes almshouses or workhouses, have received rather scant academic treatment, as well, though tens of millions of poor people were confined there, while often their neighbors talked in hushed tones and in fear of their own fate at the 'specter of the poorhouse.' Based on the author's study of six New England poorhouses/poor farms, a hidden story in America's history is presented which will be of popular interest as well as useful as a text in social welfare and social history. While the poorhouse's mission was character reform and 'repressing pauperism,' these goals were gradually undermined by poor people themselves, who often learned to use the poorhouse for their own benefit, as well as by staff and officials of the houses, who had agendas sometimes at odds with the purposes for which the poorhouse was invented.
The Gallows, the Prison, and the Poor-house
Author: George Washington QuinbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
From the Pulpit to the Poor-house
Author: Jay Benson HamiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Itinerancy (Church polity)
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Poorhouse Sweeney
Author: Ed SweeneyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almshouses
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Tales of the Road
Author: Cathy WurzerPublisher: Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN: 9780873516266
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
In this companion book to a new Twin Cities Public Television documentary also called "Tales of the Road" (airing in November 2008), Wurzer unearths stories about Highway 61, spotlighting famous and fascinating locations, many of them little remembered today.
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Author: John Young