Hill Farms: Surviving Modern Times in Early Twenti Gwendolyn Kiste Harvey Milk

Harvey Milk

This was the state of bird study in eastern North America during the early 1800s

Johann Siegert

The Histories urges us to value reality

Hill Farms: Surviving Modern Times in Early Twenti Gwendolyn Kiste Harvey MilkThere is a stubborn myth that has persisted for almost two centuries: the narrative of the abandoned farm in the rural American northeast. In Hill Farms, historian Dona Brown confronts this myth of rural decline with a focus on Jamaica, Vermont, a small town in the hills west of Brattleboro. Through this town's history, she reveals a more complex economic and environmental narrative, a story of the continued use of traditional farm methods despite the