Where We Lived - $27.60 - Larkin, Jack - 9781561588473

Where We Lived
Discovering the Places We Once Called Home : The American Home from 1775 to 1840
Larkin, Jack
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BOOK SUMMARY
The past has left behind only scattered clues that, on their own, provide little insight into how the people of early America lived and the details of their daily lives. The photographs in this book, the deeply informed narrative that accompanies them, an

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BOOK SYNOPSIS
The past has left behind only scattered clues that, on their own, provide little insight into how the people of early America lived and the details of their daily lives. The photographs in this book, the deeply informed narrative that accompanies them, and the eyewitness accounts of daily life that the author weaves throughout, provide a fresh perspective on our early American ancestors and the places they called home. This book is about how their houses and their life in them, from the wealthy to the impoverished, from New York City to the small farms and plantations of the South, from coastal fishing towns to the Western frontier of Indiana and Kentucky. The stories focus on the remarkably vivid differences from one part of the country to the next, class and culture, and the realities of everyday life for American families. These stories twine around a wide selection of HABS photographs of early houses, covering the variety and evolutions of house styles -- not by labeling the style but by explaining the style in the context of everyday life.

Richly illustrated with handsome black-and-white photography of old houses from the Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey (HABS) collection and supplemented with period woodcuts, engravings, drawings, paintings, artifacts, and maps, the book is printed on a 4-color press for a depth of tone. Sidebar excerpts from diaries, journals, and letters inject graphic eyewitness descriptions, adding an additional layer of insight. The book also includes sidebars called Still Standing that traces the history of specific houses, from their origins to the present and includes information on the original family, how the house has evolved over the centuries, and how it's used today.

AUTHOR BIO
Jack Larkin is the Museum Scholar and Chief Historian at Old Sturbridge Village, reporting directly to the President and responsible for major research and writing projects, the museum's overall interpretation of historical content through exhibits and programs, and its relationships with the scholarly community. He is also Affiliate Professor of History at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, where he teaches "Explorations in History: New England in the Nineteenth Century." In the fall of 2005 he will teach the American Studies Seminar at the American Antiquarian Society, on "Childhoods Real and Imagined: New England 1790-1860." Between 1992 and 2003 he was Director of Research, Collections and Library, managing the museum's activities in these areas. Prior to that he was Chief Historian in the Research Department from 1982-1992 and Research Historian from 1976-82.

He is currently the project director of "Back to Our Roots: Interpreting New England Agriculture and Rural Life for a New Century" funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

BOOK REVIEWS
In his new book, Larkin revisits the architecture of America from 1775 to 1840 and finds the values and dreams of the young republic recorded in wood and stone. Illustrated with amazing photographs from the Library of Congress Historic American Building Survey, the book opens a window on a time before indoor plumbing and electricity, discovering that the good old days, in some ways, were pretty good after all, despite physical hardships. --Kevin Markey, USA Weekend

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1561588474
ISBN(13-digit): 9781561588473
Dewey Decimal: 973.5
Library of Congress: 2006018124
Book Publisher: Ingram Pub Services
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 266
Paper Weight (lb): 2.8631 lb

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