Connecticut Valley Vernacular
The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields
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Word Count
36,000 words, Guess
Page Count
144 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL9373956M
- ISBN-139780812236705
- ISBN-10081223670X
- OCLC Control Number49553736
- Internet Archiveconnecticutvalle0000ogor
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2002020333
- Goodreads1201592
- LibraryThing620754
Classifications
- LCCSB273 .O46 2002
Description
"James F. O'Gorman reads through oral histories, newspaper reports, and the terse factual writing of agricultural diaries to bring to life the risks and rewards of living close to the seasons, at the mercy of rainfall and sunshine. He has collected an array of vintage and newly commissioned photos of the work of growing tobacco, from de facto portraits of anonymous laborers to images of the sheds themselves, with all their ventilating doors open, welcoming the air. In this book, O'Gorman treats both the people and the sheds with the respect and admiration their precarious presence requires."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
The Connecticut River rises in a series of lakes near the Canadian border in northern Hampshire, falls some 1,600 feet in the course of its more than four-hundred-mile journey, and empties into Long Island Sound between Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, Connecticut, having drained more than 13,000 square miles.
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