Name/Title
Town Meeting CountryEntry/Object ID
2010.23.002Description
"All over the United States there are 'countries' of people, and in each there is a central force that has molded the thought and behavior of the people of the region....
In New England it is the town....
This, then, is the story of the New England town. To know it is to understand in part why the United States can be a democracy, and the best place to study this story is in Town Meeting Country.
The limits of Town Meeting Country are sharply defined. That is at it should be, for boundaries mean a lot to New Englanders...."
Town meeting country covers approximately sixty by fifty square miles from Long Island Sound to Connecticut River then over to Worcester and down to Block Island Sound.
"...There is another reason why town Meeting Country best illustrates the way the New England town dominates its people. Here, as in no other region, we have the small mill city. At least they are cities as far as numbers go - say, over six thousand, or some other arbitrary figure - and they are urban enough in schools, hospitals, hotels, and so on. But in folkways they are towns built around a mill or two.'"
Physical Description: Hardcover bookCollection
Colonial Era (including early wars)Book Details
Author
Webster, Clarence M.Publisher
Duell, Sloan & PearceDate Published
1650 - 1940Publication Language
EnglishCall No.
973.2 W Early ColonialNotes
Date: 1945
Copy No.: 1