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Working the stone : the natural, social, and industrial history of the village of Farnams, town of Cheshire, county of Berkshire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts / Paul Metcalf, Lucia Saradoff.
- Title
- Working the stone : the natural, social, and industrial history of the village of Farnams, town of Cheshire, county of Berkshire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts / Paul Metcalf, Lucia Saradoff.
- Author
- Metcalf, Paul C.
- Publication
- [San Diego, Calif.] : San Diego State University Press, 2003.
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- Additional Authors
- Saradoff, Lucia.
- Description
- 80 p. : ill.; 22 x 28 cm.
- Summary
- "Working the Stone: The Natural, Social, and Industrial History of the Village of Farnams, Town of Cheshire, County of Berkshire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts" is a unique work made u' of text and images that takes as its focus an abandoned New England limestone quarry. Placed in an extended chronology of the area's archaeology going back 350 million years, Metcalf's and Saradoff's work moves into an orchestrated oral history of the quarry told by people who remember how the enterprise was set up and run. Waves of immigrants from Germany, Ireland, Poland, and Italy occupied villages in the area and worked at the quarry and plant, which was eventually acquired by U.S. Gypsum. Mechanization of the work processes replaced men and their laboriously gained expertise. An album on history, photography, US labor, and New England from SDSU Press. --Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Natural, social, and industrial history of the village of Farnams, town of Cheshire, county of Berkshire, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Subject
- Cheshire (Mass. : Town) > History
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 77-80).
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1 -- 1. The Stone -- Glossary -- 2. After the Glacier -- 3. Native American -- 4. Moving the Land: The Dance of the Deeds -- Part 2 -- 1. Working the Stone: The Farnam Twins -- 2. The Curtins: C.J. and Tom -- 3. The Quarry -- 4. Hauling the Stone -- 5. The Mill -- Part 3 -- 1. A Big Happy Family -- 2. The Best Ball Team in Berkshire County -- 3. The Grape -- Part 4 -- 1. The Crusher -- 2. Poor Relation -- 3. Struck by Lightning -- Part 5 -- A Diversion: Farnams at the Berkshire -- Part 6 -- "...the Fires Burned Out." -- Ghosts -- Epilogue -- Postscript (1995).
- ISBN
- 1879691671
- OCLC
- 55751257
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library