The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-09-07
BEST HISTORICAL ~ap'
WORKS ON VERMONT
May Lamberton Becker Picks Crock.
ctt'3 -Four Volumes AS Her
Choice.


Choice.
IN answer to query from the wo
mans club Of St Adams, May Lambor
ton Becker writes as follows Of Yer
mont historical literature, much Of
which has local and state interest
The article appears In the Literary Re.
view Of Now York, is jued Saturday:
They can make use OF the best his
tory Of Vermont yet printed, and one
that approaches the ideal Of a state
history The History Of Vermont, the
Green Mountain State, by Walter Hall
Crockett This is sold by subscrib-
tion and liQbhshed, in foar volumes
hy the .lhttle t,}mpany, Rutland, Vt
mud The Centlry Fl story company
New York ONE reason why'it is such
Ia successful work Is the unusual val.
icty and vyac.ty of It's material, es.
pecia ly Ia the tormy days when the
state was coming into being, and when
IT. man value 10 the surrOun ling
country was as something to quarrel
over but Mr. C'Dckett. who made this
Ia llfe.work, has brought this mass Of
informal ON into line and pre- cntcd {
~ so spirited a fashion that with all
the illu tratlons TO add to its interest
Il makes wonderful book wish it
were in every town brary Of the state
and I viii be in large historical col.
iections.
Speaking Of Verm'ntiana send to
the Elm Tree Pre- S. Woodstock. Vt,
and a Narrative Of a Tour through
the state OF Vermont, 1859, by the
It.y Nathan Perkins of Hartford,
Which they published IN 1890 This
determined deyino LETT CONNECTICUT on
horseback ana went almost to the
Canadian ln1 and ia K preaching the
gospel 10 the back woods Struggling
with bad cooltlnE, ;fiea and the n
0ucnco Of tAA'hss hetatc f.ecthiuker
Ethan Allpqg but aphsd. mainly, so
FAR ASH cam soe,3by the wet sense
that BE- could pteagh, all around the
local tplent, q Stdell shtml sclfreye.
latoh OF the Rev, Peedns aud a pic
turelof q ciyill4eti1h stil in tn
pioneer stage
No Nermontef has really quail fed
az such who has not read the 20, d old
thriller The Green Mounta Boys.
and had ! my WY. Uncle L.sha,
shop by Rowland Robinson would
Dc in every yniag3fibtnry 1t was pub
.ished by StJWagt Kidd Cincinnati, in
se.ios Of dialogues that reproduce
the very tang Of the dialect The char
acte,s of village Lie appear when
five houses n8ai a,E ] age Next tc
/ ,net comes Tire poems Of Dan 81 Cady
/ also publ lod By The futile lcompanS
pf Rutland, fbr whose catalogue ana
that Of tie Elm 'Ir.e Press you shou'd
send. tauys poems, n.typ diaiedt
/ tketehCs Of life as il was before the
4 Ford are sCll SO true TO tho spirit d
the HIS and their farms thai reading
/ thom over males M more than eyeI
dispensed that have just come lacl
from a Vermont arm instead OF jJst
gong there
There are many EnHs famous ii
-lI+i1sI.cah ! teEaiY% @aSrt OF today
th'l Neui9 seH q Nermonter
'F Aa4eeF ~tN''If'foSe The one nov
most read IS D'ro'hy Canheid Fishef
/ Though oga rcceat cross country trii
h gdotA4 AFf CANNED by three states
sue hefsell'tla'ms vermont and hey
'e''- WORKS ara" lroul us soil, Ting
IS met ohy in t.lht Swimming GuB
Nue.e tHe nature scores are tl' mos
9'tY'h giH-' but 'i' tla' uGtdiil an'
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