House Stories : the Meanings of Home in a New England Town /

"Historic houses adorned with plaques populate New England like nowhere else in the country. These plaques note the construction year and original owner of the house, but they tell nothing about the rich lives of the people who lived there. In House Stories, Beth Luey takes readers on a virtual...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Luey, Beth (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Amherst : Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press 2017.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv346vhq
Table des matières:
  • Introduction: House and home
  • The minister and the maid
  • Mister Rogers' neighborhood
  • The apple and the tree
  • A home above
  • Home is not a house
  • A house for friends
  • You can't go home again
  • The biggest house in town
  • Homeward bound
  • "Perfectly safe."