The Salt-Box House (Classic Reprint): Eighteenth Century Life in a New England Hill Town: Eighteenth Century Life in a New England Hill Town (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Step back to 18th‑century New England life with a close look at a single hills town. This nonfiction volume traces daily life, work, and community on western Connecticut’s hills, centered around the Salt‑Box House and its long, storied history. Rich with scenes of family, farming, and public life, it blends house history with the broader rhythms of colonial and revolutionary times.
- Explore how a rural household functioned, from building and furnishing to daily chores and communal duties.
- Learn how neighbors, barns, wells, and outbuildings supported a self‑reliant way of life.
- Read about frontier challenges, trade, and the social events that shaped a small New England town.
- Discover the interplay of family stories with wider events, including wartime pressures and local life across generations.
Ideal for readers of local history, architectural memory, and life in early America—fans of painstaking detail and evocative, grounded storytelling.
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The Salt-Box House: Eighteenth Century Life in a New England Hill Town
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book is a historical account of the lives of the settlers who built and resided in a saltbox house on the hills of Western Connecticut in the 18th century. It provides a glimpse into the challenges and rewards of life in a frontier New England town, where survival was a constant battle against the harshness of nature. Through the daily lives of the fictional Wetherell family, the author illustrates the courage, resourcefulness, and resilience of these early settlers, exploring themes of faith, family, and the pursuit of a better life. The book offers a unique perspective on the development of New England society and the role that ordinary people played in shaping the nation's history. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781330071076_0
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