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CONTENTS List of Maps oo Introduction: The American Quest for Placelessness--Howard Mansfield oo PART ONE--First Encounters Introduction 1 Readings: Indians and Wolves 00 Sokoki Homeland from Monadnock: K'naitobena Sokwaki--Marge Bruchac 00 Phineas Stevens at the Threshold of the Frontier--David Stewart-Smith 00 11,000 Years on the Ashuelot--Robert Goodby 00 Borders and Boundaries--John R. Harris 00 The Disorderly Origins of the Granite State--Peter Sauer 00 Journal: The Lost Child--Nathaniel Hawthorne 00 PART TWO--Making Land Introduction 00 Report: The New Road to Keene, 1839 00 Report: The Connecticut River Ferry, 1900 00 Parables of Place--Tom Wessels 00 Journal: Thoreau on Monadnock, 1860--Henry David Thoreau 00 Following Thoreau--J. Parker Huber 00 Recollections: Marlborough's Granite Quarry--John R. Harris 00 A Mill Girl's Offering--Ronald Jager 00 The Family History of Water--Howard Mansfield 00 "Plant Your Apples on the Hills"--Jane Brox 00 Recollections: Marion Davis, Cattle Drover--Mortimer Peebles 00 The Grange Votes Down Automobiles--Haydn S. Pearson 00 PART THREE--Emptying Out Introduction 00 The Last 113 People--Alan F. Rumrill 00 Letter: Stoddard Reawakening, 1946--Charles L. Pierce 00 Land of Stone--Kevin Gardner 00 Blueberry Planet--Roger B. Swain 00 The Tragic Life of William Preston Phelps--Edie Clark 00 The Poor Farm--John R. Harris 00 Recollections: The Green Army of Camp Annett--Jonathan Schach 00 Recollections: Lost Ski Areas--Mortimer Peebles 00 Readings: "What Ails New England?" 00 PART FOUR--Returning Introduction 00 Readings: The Folks of the Monadnock Region Want you for a Neighbor! 00 Abbott Thayer in the Spell of Monadnock--Richard Meryman 00 Letter: A Dublin Summer--Mark Twain 00 Confessions of a Part-Time Squire--Newton F. Tolman 00 How to Build a House--Raphael Pumpelly 00 Far from Nebraska's Prairies--Linda Dyer 00 Grandfather's Farm--Nancy Hayden 00 Back to the Land--Edie Clark 00 Getting Out of the Hole in Nelson--Jim Collins 00 Eminent Domain: Evicted to Create Pisgah Park--Elizabeth Getchell 00 Recollections: Pisgah, a Place Apart--Jonathan Schach 00 The Return of the Wild--Sy Montgomery 00 PART FIVE--Here and Now in the Global Market Introduction 00 Taxi--Ernest Hebert 00 Il Sentimento della Casa (A Sense of Home)--Paul B. Hertneky 00 "This Is a Great Country, and Don't Forget It"--Dayton Duncan 00 The Last Mill in Town--Paul B. Hertneky 00 Recollections: The Working Life, I. Marlborough Mill 00 Recollections: The Working Life, II. Lawrence Tannery--Geoffrey Douglas 00 "How Did It Go Today?"--Martha Weinman Lear 00 Letter: And Not So Well for Others--Dawn Powell 00 Drawing Our Desires: The Endless Keene Bypass Controversy--William Craig 00 Recollections: The Last Train Out of Town--John R. Harris 00 Quiet Boomtown--Gerald Burns 00 Is There a Monadnock Land Ethic?--Richard Ober 00 The Last Hurrah for New England Thrift; or, Use It Once, Toss It Out, Buy More--Chesterfield Town Report 00 Mr. Roy's Market--Janisse Ray 00 Our Town--Tim Clark 00 APPENDIX--You Can Get There From Here My Favorite Views of the Mountain--Judson D. Hale, Sr. 00 Directions to Some of the Places in This Book 00 Bibliography and Sources 00 List of Contributors 00 Illustration Credits and Acknowledgments 00 Editor's Note 00
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Monadnock, Mount, Region (N.H.) -- History.
Monadnock, Mount, Region (N.H.) -- Description and travel.
Monadnock, Mount, Region (N.H.) -- Social life and customs.