Here and Everywhere Else
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Here and Everywhere Else

Small-Town Maine and the World

  1. 264 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Here and Everywhere Else

Small-Town Maine and the World

About this book

Winner of an Award of Excellence, American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
In 1822, settlers pushed north from Massachusetts and other parts of New England into Monson, Maine. On land taken from the Penobscot people, they established prosperous farms and businesses. Focusing on the microhistory of this village, Andrew Witmer reveals the sometimes surprising ways that this small New England town engaged with the wider world across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Townspeople fought and died in distant wars, transformed the economy and landscape with quarries and mills, and used railroads, highways, print, and new technologies to forge connections with the rest of the nation.

Here and Everywhere Else starts with Monson's incorporation in the early nineteenth century, when central Maine was considered the northern frontier and over 90 percent of Americans still lived in rural areas; it ends with present-day attempts to revive this declining Maine town into an artists' colony. Engagingly written, with colorful portraits of local characters and landmarks, this study illustrates how the residents of this remote place have remade their town by integrating (and resisting) external influences.

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Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. ContentsĀ 
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: The View from Homer Hill
  10. Chapter 1: The Paths Into Town
  11. Chapter 2: From Away
  12. Chapter 3: Writing Home
  13. Chapter 4: Over Here and Over There
  14. Chapter 5: What is Right Around Me
  15. Afterword: Silicon Valley and Small-Town Maine
  16. Notes
  17. Index
  18. Back Cover