One man's family
Subtitle: growing up in Peterborough
By: Sydney M. Williams
Publisher: Bauhan Publishing LLC
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Peterborough, New Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780872331754
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Family; Biography; Social life and customs; Families; History; Farm life; Skis and skiing
Description: "These essays--or as Sydney Williams calls them: 'musings'--are evocative of a time and a place--of growing up in a New Hampshire village in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sydney Williams was the second of nine children whose parents were sculptors and who was raised on a small farm, with horses, goats and chickens--an unconventional life in an unconventional place, but during a conventional time. They include memories of his parents and their families, of books and of skiing. While they are personal, their message is universal message. It is one of remembrance--the closeness of families and the effect genes and environment have on how we become who we are. Sydney M. Williams left Peterborough in 1956 to go off to school, yet his bonds to Peterborough persist. His brother Willard owns and manages the Toadstool Bookshop. Besides Willard, three sisters--Betsy, Charlotte and Jenny--live nearby"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: A tour of past and present; title: Peterborough, New Hampshire, in the 1940s and '50s; title: The death of my father, some forty years on; title: My mother; title: some vignettes; title: Eulogy for my sister, Mary Williams Gregg; title: Stuart Hotchkiss Williams; title: The Toadstool; title: Books; title: Remembering December 2; title: Sixty-nine years on skis; title: Family reunions and the miracle of life; title: Two days in New Hampshire; title: Remembering Memorial Day; title: Christmas past and present; title: On great-grandparents; title: A letter on V-J day; title: Fifty years of marriage; title: Fiftieth reunion; title: Williston '59; title: On turning seventy; title: We are all kin; title: Afterword.