Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

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

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government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

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mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Where the mountain stands alone

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

488818

Responsibility statement

Howard Mansfield, editor

Sub title

stories of place in the Monadnock Region

Table Of 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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