Sightseeking
Subtitle: clues to the landscape history of New England
By: Christopher J. Lenney.
Series: Revisiting New England
Publisher: University of New Hampshire/University Press of New England
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Hanover N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Landscape -- New England -- History; Human geography -- New England; Regionalism -- New England; Historic sites -- New England; New England -- History, Local; New England -- Description and travel; New England -- Antiquities
Description: "How does one "read" a landscape? With infectious enthusiasm and wit, Lenney guides the reader through a historical and cultural examination of how New England's artificial landscape - placenames, boundaries, townplans, roads, houses, and gravestones - came to be. The author makes sense of the placename suffixes that dot our maps - the -fields, -tons, -hams, and -burys that append themselves to our life and land, and forces the reader to reconsider the shape of the village green and the unique hybrids of architecture, to wonder why old roads go where they go, and to question why (good neighbors and Robert Frost notwithstanding) we build stone walls."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 329-347) and index.