Presents each letter of the alphabet illustrated with reproductions of photographs from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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With Harriette Lerrigo-Leidich as your guide, you can travel back to the days of the one-room schoolhouse, corn-husking bees, home-made ketchup, and Wash Day. Nearing her 90th birthday, she still samples what life offers with appreciation and humor, reflects on its relevance to today, and anticipates what may yet lie

In their letters ""To the Editor"" of the Rutland Herald, young Vermont soldiers tell of their service in the Civil War, fighting for the Union, galloping around Lee's army in Virginia, garrisoning the beleaguered defenses of Washington, D.C., and blunting Pickett's desperate charge at Gettysburg. One writer is captured, another

Author Peter Hannaford, known as a chronicler of the 40th President, Ronald Reagan, found his own interest in George Washington reawakened when he served for six years on the Mount Vernon Advisory Committee.