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Cultivating a past : essays on the history of Hadley, Massachusetts / edited by Marla R. Miller

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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009.

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1 online resource (x, 371 pages) : illustrations, map
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Pastkeeping in Another Small Place; 1. Quanquan's Mortgage of 1663; 2. Before Hadley: Archaeology and Native History, 10,000 bc to 1700 ad; 3. The Fortification of Hadley in the Seventeenth Century; 4. Web of Secrecy: Goffe, Whalley, and the Legend of Hadley; 5. The "Goffe Bible": Succor for the Regicides?; 6. "There shall be a wonder in Hadley!": Mary Webster's "Hideous Witchcraft"; 7. Hannah Barnard's Cupboard: Female Property and Identity in Eighteenth-Century New England.
8. The Sober People of Hadley: Sumptuary Legislation and Clothing in Hadley Men's Probate Inventories, 1663-17319. "We owe something more than prayers":Elizabeth Porter Phelps's Gift of Church Silver and Her Quest for Christian Fellowship; 10. Commerce and Community: A Case Study of the Rural Broommaking Business in Antebellum Massachusetts; 11. In Defense of Fighting Joe; 12. Poles and Puritans; 13. America's Blind Naturalist: Clarence Hawkes and the World He Lived In; 14. "Like one of the trees": Roger Sessions and Hadley; 15. Preserving Mt. Holyoke; Notes on Contributors; Index; Back Cover.
Language
English.
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JSTOR
Subject
Hadley (Mass. : Town) -- Social life and customs.
Hadley (Mass. : Town) -- History.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Massachusetts -- Hadley (Town) (OCoLC)fst01332167
Hadley (Mass.: Town) - Social life and customs.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
United States Local History.
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"Multi-User"
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Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author
Miller, Marla R.
Other Form:
Print version: Cultivating a past. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2009 (DLC) 2009006520
ISBN
9781613761335 (electronic bk.)
1613761333 (electronic bk.)
9781558497009 (cloth ; alk. paper)
1558497005 (cloth ; alk. paper)