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A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837

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The abnormal diary of Vermont farmer Hiram Harwood―a fourteen-volume record of personal, circle of relatives, and community events from 1808 to 1837―provides Robert E. Shalhope with the material for this rich microhistory. Harwood’s struggle to succeed in full manhood and assume his position as head of the circle of relatives, his misgivings about challenging―much less displacing―his father, the changes American life brought to this traditional rite of passage, Hiram’s relationships with wife and children, seasonal events, and all of the day by day experiences of this in any case tragic figure make for a captivating story and provide a highly abnormal window into antebellum American life.

Although he focuses mainly on the story of a single farmer, Shalhope also incorporates other stories from this wide-ranging chronicle. Readers glimpse the social, political, economic, and spiritual life of all the New England region. Most of all, though, the story of Hiram Harwood reveals the personal price exacted of him by one circle of relatives’s unyielding belief in patriarchy.


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