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Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts

Marla R. Miller

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Description:In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New England. Three hundred and fifty years later, a group of distinguished scholars mark the founding of that town Hadley, Massachusetts with a book that explores a history as rich as that soil.Edited with an introduction by Marla R. Miller, Cultivating a Past brings together fifteen essays, some previously published and others new, that tell the story of Hadley from a variety of disciplinary vantage points. Archaeologists Elizabeth Chilton, Siobhan Hart, Christopher Donta, Edward Hood, and Rita Reinke investigate relations between Native and European communities, while historians Gregory Nobles, Alice Nash, and Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explore the social, cultural, and political past of this New England town. Musicologist Andrea Olmstead surveys the career of composer Roger Sessions, costume specialist Lynne Bassett interprets the wardrobes of the town s seventeenth-century residents, and Smith College rare books curator Martin Antonetti charts the course of a 1599 Bible alleged to have been used by the regicide William Goffe in his Hadley refuge.Taken together, the essays capture how men and women in this small community responded to the same challenges that have faced other New Englanders from the seventeenth century to the present. They also reveal how the town s historical sense of itself evolved along the way, as stories of the alleged Angel of Hadley, of favorite sons Joseph Hooker and Clarence Hawkes, and of daughters Mary Webster and Elizabeth Porter Phelps contributed to a civic identity that celebrates strength of character.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. To get started finding Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New England. Three hundred and fifty years later, a group of distinguished scholars mark the founding of that town Hadley, Massachusetts with a book that explores a history as rich as that soil.Edited with an introduction by Marla R. Miller, Cultivating a Past brings together fifteen essays, some previously published and others new, that tell the story of Hadley from a variety of disciplinary vantage points. Archaeologists Elizabeth Chilton, Siobhan Hart, Christopher Donta, Edward Hood, and Rita Reinke investigate relations between Native and European communities, while historians Gregory Nobles, Alice Nash, and Pulitzer Prize winner Laurel Thatcher Ulrich explore the social, cultural, and political past of this New England town. Musicologist Andrea Olmstead surveys the career of composer Roger Sessions, costume specialist Lynne Bassett interprets the wardrobes of the town s seventeenth-century residents, and Smith College rare books curator Martin Antonetti charts the course of a 1599 Bible alleged to have been used by the regicide William Goffe in his Hadley refuge.Taken together, the essays capture how men and women in this small community responded to the same challenges that have faced other New Englanders from the seventeenth century to the present. They also reveal how the town s historical sense of itself evolved along the way, as stories of the alleged Angel of Hadley, of favorite sons Joseph Hooker and Clarence Hawkes, and of daughters Mary Webster and Elizabeth Porter Phelps contributed to a civic identity that celebrates strength of character.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts. To get started finding Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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