Published in [1891]. Contents include: The New England Meeting-House -- The Church Militant -- By Drum and Horn and Shell -- The Old-Fashioned Pews -- Seating the Meeting -- The Tithingman and the Sleepers -- The Length of the Service -- The Icy Temperature of the Meeting-House -- The Noon-House -- The Deacon's Office -- The Psalm-Book of the Pilgrims -- The Bay Psalm-Book -- Sternhold and Hopkins' Version of the Psalms -- Other Old Psalm-Books --...

An informed and fascinating account of the 18 major tribes that lived in pre-Colonial New England.

A fictionalized account of a boy's adventures in early nineteenth-century New England. Illustrated with black and white photographs of twelve youngsters spending the summer at Old Sturbridge Village.

Describes New England village life in 1810 as based on visits to Old Sturbridge Village, Massachusetts, and Old Slater's Mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island.

Ned Constantine and his family abandon hectic New York for a tranquil New England village where they unknowingly become part of the secret Harvest Home ritual.

Get to know the colorful cast of characters at the Granite State Trailerpark, where Flora in number 11 keeps more than a hundred guinea pigs and screams at people to stay away from her babies, Claudel in number 5 thinks he is lucky until his wife burns down their trailer and runs off with Howie Leeke, and Noni in number 7 has telephone conversations with Jesus and tells the police about them. In this series of related short stories, Russell Banks...

Lucy Larcom (1824 – 1893) was an American teacher, poet, and author. She was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts, teaching there from 1854 to 1862. During that time, she co-founded Rushlight Literary Magazine, a submission-based student literary magazine which is still published. From 1865 to 1873, she was the editor of the Boston-based Our Young Folks, which merged with St. Nicholas...