
- 264 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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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
- CoverĀ
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- ContentsĀ
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The View from Homer Hill
- Chapter 1: The Paths Into Town
- Chapter 2: From Away
- Chapter 3: Writing Home
- Chapter 4: Over Here and Over There
- Chapter 5: What is Right Around Me
- Afterword: Silicon Valley and Small-Town Maine
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover