Where the mountain stands alone
Subtitle: stories of place in the Monadnock Region
By: Howard Mansfield, editor.
Contributors: Mansfield, Howard.; Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture.
Publisher: University Press of New England
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hanover
Language: eng
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9781584655558; 9781584655565
Subjects: Monadnock, Mount, Region (N.H.) -- History; Monadnock, Mount, Region (N.H.) -- Description and travel; Monadnock, Mount, Region (N.H.) -- Social life and customs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Published in Cooperation with the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture."
Table of contents: title: The American quest for placelessness / Howard Mansfield; title: Sokoki homeland from Monadnock : K'naitobena Sokwaki / Marge Bruchac; title: Phineas Stevens at the threshold of the frontier / David Stewart-Smith; title: 11,000 years on the Ashuelot / Robert Goodby; title: Borders and boundaries / John R. Harris; title: The disorderly origins of the Granite State / Peter Sauer; title: The lost child / Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: The new road to Keene, 1839; title: The Connecticut River ferry, 1900; title: Parables of place / Tom Wessels; title: Thoreau on Monadnock, 1860 / Henry David Thoreau; title: Following Thoreau / J. Parker Huber; title: Marlborough's granite quarry / John R. Harris; title: Girl's offering / Ronald Jager; title: The family history of water / Howard Mansfield; title: "Plant your apples on the hills" / Jane Brox; title: Marion davis, cattle drover / Mortimer Peebles; title: The grange votes down automobiles / Haydn S. Pearson; title: The last 113 people / Alan F. Rumrill; title: Stoddard reawakening, 1946 / Charles L. Pierce; title: Land of stone / Kevin Gardner; title: Blueberry planet / Roger B. Swain; title: The tragic life of William Preston Phelps / Edie Clark; title: The poor farm / John R. Harris; title: The green army of Camp Annett / Jonathan Schach; title: Lost ski areas / Mortimer Peebles; title: "What ails New England?"; title: The folks of the Monadnock Region want you for a neighbor!; title: Abbott Thayer in the spell of Monadnock / Richard Meryman; title: A Dublin summer / Mark Twain; title: Confessions of a part-time squire / Newton F. Tolman; title: How to build a house / Raphael Pumpelly; title: Far from Nebraska's prairies / Linda Dyer; title: Grandfather's farm / Nancy Hayden; title: Back to the land / Edie Clark; title: Getting out of the hole in Nelson / Jim Collins; title: Eminent domain : evicted to create Pisgah Park / Elizabeth Getchell; title: Pisgah, a place apart / Jonathan Schach; title: The return of the wild / Sy Montgomery; title: Taxi / Ernest Hebert; title: Sentimento della casa (a sense of home) / Paul B. Hertneky; title: "This is a great country, and don't forget it" / Dayton Duncan; title: The last mill in town / Paul B. Hertneky; title: The working life, I. Marlborough Mill; title: The working life, II. Lawrence Tannery / Geoffrey Douglas; title: "How did it go today?" / Martha Weinman Lear; title: And not so well for others / Dawn Powell; title: Drawing our desires : the endless Keene Bypass controversy / William Craig; title: The last train out of town / John R. Harris; title: Quiet boomtown / Gerald Burns; title: Is there a Monadnock land ethic? / Richard Ober; title: The last hurrah for New England thrift, or, Use it once, toss it out, buy more / Chesterfield Town Report; title: Mr. Roy's market / Janisse Ray; title: Our town / Tim Clark.