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Reading Rural Landscapes

Download or Read eBook Reading Rural Landscapes PDF written by Robert Stanford and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Reading Rural Landscapes
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 179
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ISBN-10 : 9781684751563
ISBN-13 : 168475156X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Reading Rural Landscapes by : Robert Stanford

Book excerpt: Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos.Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues.Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box.A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.


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