Descripción
Winner of the 2023 New England Society Book Award in the Historical Nonfiction category
Winner of an Award of Excellence, American Association for State and Local History (AASLH)
In 1822, settlers pushed north from Massachusetts and other parts of New England into Monson, Maine. On land taken from the Penobscot people, they established prosperous farms and businesses. Focusing on the microhistory of this village, Andrew Witmer reveals the sometimes surprising ways that this small New England town engaged with the wider world across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Townspeople fought and died in distant wars, transformed the economy and landscape with quarries and mills, and used railroads, highways, print, and new technologies to forge connections with the rest of the nation.
Here and Everywhere Else starts with Monson's incorporation in the early nineteenth century, when central Maine was considered the northern frontier and over 90 percent of Americans still lived in rural areas; it ends with present-day attempts to revive this declining Maine town into an artists' colony. Engagingly written, with colorful portraits of local characters and landmarks, this study illustrates how the residents of this remote place have remade their town by integrating (and resisting) external influences.
Author: Andrew Witmer
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 06/24/2022
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.97h x 5.97w x 0.62d
ISBN13: 9781625346650
ISBN10: 1625346654
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | New England (CT, MA, ME, NH,
- Social Science | Sociology | Rural
- History | Social History
About the Author
ANDREW WITMER is associate professor of history at James Madison University.