Edward Hopper in Vermont

Edward Hopper in Vermont PDF

Author: Bonnie T. Clause

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1611683297

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A delightful account of Edward Hopper's sojourns in Vermont with his wife, Jo, illustrated by the watercolors and drawings that he made there

Daisy Turner's Kin

Daisy Turner's Kin PDF

Author: Jane C. Beck

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2015-06-15

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0252097289

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A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont--in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards--and uses--of memory. Publication of this book is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.

Seven Years of Grace

Seven Years of Grace PDF

Author: Sara Rath

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780934720663

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A well-researched historical novel about Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), a Vermont woman and itinerant medium who gave popular lectures on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform.

Mr. and Mrs. Prince

Mr. and Mrs. Prince PDF

Author: Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2009-07-28

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0061950408

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Lucy Terry was a devoted wife and mother, and the first known African-American poet. Abijah Prince, her husband, was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars and an entrepreneur. Together they pursued what would become the cornerstone of the American dream — having a family and owning property where they could live, grow, and prosper. When bigoted neighbors tried to run them off their own property, they asserted their rights, as they would do many times, in court. Merging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Americans who lived in the North. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author and editor of several books, including Carrington, Black London (a New York Times notable book), Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. She is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she is the first African-American woman to chair an Ivy League English Department. She has won grants from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and hosts “The Book Show,” a nationally syndicated weekly radio program that airs on ninety stations across the country. “Compelling ... History and mystery mix in this tale to make Mr. and Mrs. Prince as absorbing as it surprising and informative.” — Christian Science Monitor

Repeopling Vermont

Repeopling Vermont PDF

Author: Paul M. Searls

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780934720700

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"Repeopling Vermont: The Paradox of Development in the Twentieth Century, by historian Paul Searls, traces two distinct but interrelated stories to illuminate the fundamental contradictions and ironies that defined Vermont in the twentieth century. One is the story of a group of Swedish immigrants who settled in and around Landgrove in the 1890s and their descendants. The other is the story of Samuel R. Ogden, who beginning in 1929 purchased most of the buildings in the main village of Landgrove and set out to revitalize the town. Ogden succeeded in that project and subsequently became an important public servant to Vermont; he was instrumental in the growth of the ski industry, and was a founder of both Vermont Life magazine and the Vermont Natural Resources Council. These intertwined stories reveal the central paradox of Vermont in the twentieth century. The state's leaders simultaneously saw Vermont's overwhelmingly rural character as both a distressing problem in need of a solution, and the state's greatest asset. But their efforts to preserve Vermont's precious rural heritage, it's human and physical landscapes, while at the same time improving the state, also put that same way of life in peril. Those developments continue to reverberate throughout Vermont in the twenty-first century, shaping the experience of everyone who lives in or visits the Green Mountain State today"--

The Darkness Under the Water

The Darkness Under the Water PDF

Author: Beth Kanell

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 076363719X

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In 1930, sixteen-year-old Molly lives under the shadow of a governor who wants to sterilize people "unfit to be true Vermonters," such as her Abenaki family, while the loss of her family home, her mother's pregnancy, her first love, and other events transform her life.

Birdwatching in Vermont

Birdwatching in Vermont PDF

Author: Ted Murin

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9781584651888

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The definitive how-to guide to watching and enjoying birds in Vermont including a special section for beginners

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