Litchfield County Sketches

Connecticut - Signed by author
Author: Newell Meeker Calhoun
Illustrations B/W Photos
Dated: 1906
Pages 177
Publisher: Litchfield County University Club
Edition: 1st
Size: 8vo
Binding Green Leather
Type: Americana
Notes & Literature Litchfield County bears the same relation to the rest of the State of Connecticut that the Lake region does to Old England. As about Windermere, Grasmere and Ullswater, in famous Westmoreland, poets, preachers and literary men have made their homes, so more and more there is coming to our mountain county this same delightful class of people. From New Haven, Princeton and New York university presidents and professors have turned their faces northward to these delightful hilltops, and here many of them have built their homes. Doctors, lawyers and editors are finding out that the ozone of these hills is better than drugs, and just as good as foreign travel. Henry Clay Trumbull expressed it as his opinion, after careful thought and study, that Litchfield County had produced more distinguished men than any other county in the United States." 17 Chapters/Sections: Grass-grown Roads; The Procession of the Seasons; The Upper Reaches of the Farmington; Two County Parsons; The Finest Drive in the World; White Roses and Clover Blooms; A Deserted Farm; The Old Red Schoolhouse; A Highway in Winter; Stone Walls and Shad Fences; Trout Brooks; The Country Doctor; A Hill-town Meeting House; The Delectable Mountains; Huckleberrying' The Neglected Graveyard; The Yankee Farmer. 39 black-and-white photographic/drawn illustrations with descriptive captions and a full-page map of Litchfield County.
Condition Report Green Leather. Good Plus to Very Good