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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Detalhes bibliográficos
Autor principal: Luey, Beth (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Amherst : Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press 2017.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv346vhq
Sumário:
  • 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."