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Discovering the Places We Once Called Home
Taunton
December 2006
On Sale: November 21, 2006
272 pages
ISBN: 1561588474
EAN: 9781561588473
Hardcover
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Historical
The past has left behind only scattered clues that, on their
own, provide little insight into how the people of early
America lived and the details of their daily lives. The
photographs in this book, the deeply informed narrative that
accompanies them, and the eyewitness accounts of daily life
that the author weaves throughout, provide a fresh
perspective on our early American ancestors and the places
they called home. This book is about how their houses and
their life in them, from the wealthy to the impoverished,
from New York City to the small farms and plantations of the
South, from coastal fishing towns to the Western frontier of
Indiana and Kentucky. The stories focus on the remarkably
vivid differences from one part of the country to the next,
class and culture, and the realities of everyday life for
American families. These stories twine around a wide
selection of HABS photographs of early houses, covering the
variety and evolutions of house styles -- not by labeling
the style but by explaining the style in the context of
everyday life. Richly illustrated with handsome black-and-white photography
of old houses from the Library of Congress Historic American
Building Survey (HABS) collection and supplemented with
period woodcuts, engravings, drawings, paintings, artifacts,
and maps, the book is printed on a 4-color press for a depth
of tone. Sidebar excerpts from diaries, journals, and
letters inject graphic eyewitness descriptions, adding an
additional layer of insight. The book also includes sidebars
called Still Standing that traces the history of specific
houses, from their origins to the present and includes
information on the original family, how the house has
evolved over the centuries, and how it's used today.
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