Here and Everywhere Else
This microhistory focuses on Monson, Maine and its residents, moving from the town’s incorporation in the early nineteenth century to present-day attempts to revive this declining village into an artists’ colony. As Witmer reveals, this small New England town engaged with the wider world in surprising ways across the past two centuries, as townspeople fought and died in distant wars, the local economy and landscape were transformed by quarries and mills, and railroads, highways, and new technologies connected Monson to the rest of the world.
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