Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today's Vermont

Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today's Vermont
Title Something Abides: Discovering the Civil War in Today's Vermont PDF eBook
Author Howard Coffin
Publisher The Countryman Press
Pages 1092
Release 2013-05-06
Genre History
ISBN 158157777X

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With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state. Years after the Civil War, Oliver Wendell Holmes spoke for his fellow Civil War veterans when he said, "In our youth, our hearts were touched by fire." Today, throughout Vermont, it is possible to identify hundreds and hundreds of Civil War-related sites. Throughout Vermont are soldier homes, halls where war meetings encouraged enlistments, churches where soldier funerals were held and abolitionists spoke, monuments to those who served, hospital sites, and homes where women gathered to make items for the soldiers. The Vermont State House is a virtual Civil War museum. A building survives in Woodstock where the war was administered. Cemeteries hold the gravestones of many of the 34,000 who fought. A field even exists where in 1803 a Quaker preacher heard a voice from above fortell a bloody war over slavery. With the help of this book, Civil War sites can be located as in no other state, taking the reader through the beautiful Vermont landscape of hill farms and small towns that looks more like the Civil War era than that of any other state.

The Provincial

The Provincial
Title The Provincial PDF eBook
Author Hendrik Booraem
Publisher Bucknell University Press
Pages 280
Release 1994
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780838752647

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"The Provincial traces Calvin Coolidge's life from his thirteenth birthday until his graduation from Amherst College ten years later. It is a story of a shy young man from the country who gradually acquires an education and goes on to higher and higher levels of learning, but in Coolidge's case that progress was very much against his will. He grew up in the remote farming hamlet of Plymouth Notch, Vermont, eleven miles from the nearest railroad; his stern, thrifty father made money selling insurance and maple sugar, holding local offices, and renting property. Coolidge looked forward to someday keeping the general store his father owned, only a hundred feet from his house, and passing his life in this isolated, close-knit community, among people he knew and liked. This book shows how his intelligence, his love of reading, and his father's ambitions for him pushed him unwillingly farther and farther away. First he was sent to the local academy, eleven miles away, to study Latin and Greek. Then, on the enthusiastic recommendation of his high school principal, he went on to Amherst College in Massachusetts. On his first attempt to enter he became physically sick and had to return home. The following year he tried again, and this time he stayed, but he was desperately unhappy the first two years and asked his father in vain to be allowed to come home." "In the end, however, Amherst turned out to be a success story for him. Overlooked for the first two years by the sleek metropolitan young men who set the tone for the student body, shut out of fraternities and social life because of his shyness and country ways, he finally impressed his classmates with his dry sarcasm in debate, his ready wit, his unshakable poise and self-control. At the same time, he himself was changed and broadened. Under the influence of great Amherst professors like Charles E. Garman and Anson D. Morse, he became sure of himself and well read in history, philosophy, and political science. Even so, as he graduated to the acclaim of his classmates, he still yearned to go home to Plymouth Notch and settle there. The Provincial ends with Coolidge's graduation; a brief afterword explains how he took up law and local politics to please his father, and how hard work and intelligence led him to the Presidency."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Vermont Inns and Taverns, Pre-Revolution to 1925

Vermont Inns and Taverns, Pre-Revolution to 1925
Title Vermont Inns and Taverns, Pre-Revolution to 1925 PDF eBook
Author John C. Wriston
Publisher
Pages 696
Release 1991
Genre Hotels
ISBN

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Vermont Genealogy

Vermont Genealogy
Title Vermont Genealogy PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 512
Release 1998
Genre Registers of births, etc
ISBN

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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
Title The New England Historical and Genealogical Register PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 406
Release 1981
Genre New England
ISBN

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Congressional Record

Congressional Record
Title Congressional Record PDF eBook
Author United States. Congress
Publisher
Pages 1370
Release 1945
Genre Law
ISBN

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Shrewsbury, Vermont, Our Town as it was

Shrewsbury, Vermont, Our Town as it was
Title Shrewsbury, Vermont, Our Town as it was PDF eBook
Author Dawn D. Hance
Publisher
Pages 336
Release 1980
Genre History
ISBN

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