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When I grew up, World War II was omnipresent and hidden. This was also true of myfather¿s time in the Air Force. Like most of his generation, it was a rule with him not totalk about what he¿d seen at war. ¿Yoüre not getting any war stories from me, ¿ he¿d say.Cleaning up the old family house the year before he died, I was surprised to find a shortdiary of the bombing missions he had flown. Some of the missions were harrowing. Ibegan to fill in...

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A book on the multiplicity and universality of longing, and how this manifests in America.

While reporting on citizens fighting natural gas pipelines and transmission lines planned to cut right across their homes, Howard Mansfield saw the emotional toll of these projects. ¿They got under the skin, ¿ writes Mansfield. ¿This was about more than kilowatts, powerlines, and pipelines. Something in this upheaval felt familiar. I began to realize that I was witnessing an essential American experience: the world turned upside down. And it a...

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Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill WhistlerIn 1851 Whistler became a cadet at West Point, where he stood at the head of his class in drawing, as his father had done, but stood at the foot of his class in chemistry, yet during one year, at least, ranked in average above eighteen of his comrades in a class of sixty. It was for deficiency in chemistry that he was dismissed, in june.About th...

Excerpt from A Descriptive Catalogue of the Etchings and Dry-Points of James Abbott McNeill WhistlerIn 1851 Whistler became a cadet at West Point, where he stood at the head of his class in drawing, as his father had done, but stood at the foot of his class in chemistry, yet during one year, at least, ranked in average above eighteen of his comrades in a class of sixty. It was for deficiency in chemistry that he was dismissed, in june.About th...

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An insightful but droll glimpse inside the life of one New England town

Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, a...

Before Thomas Edison, light and fire were thought to be one and the same. Turns out, they were separate things altogether. This book takes a similar relationship, that of time and place, and shows how they, too, were once inseparable. Time keeping was once a local affair, when small towns set their own pace according to the rising and setting of the sun. Then, in 1883, the expanding railroads necessitated the creation of Standard Time zones, a...

The mystery that attracts Howard Mansfield's attention is that some houses have life-are home, are dwellings, and others aren't. Dwelling, he says, is an old-fashioned word that we've misplaced. When we live heart and soul, we dwell. When we belong to a place, we dwell. Possession, they say, is nine-tenths of the law, but it is also what too many houses and towns lack. We are not possessed by our home places. This lost quality of dwelling-the ...

Originally published: New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University, c1990.

In the Memory House recalls what American society has forgotten--the land, its people, and its ideals. By examining what we choose to remember, this important book reveals how progress has created absences in our landscapes and in our lives.

A shed is the shortest line between need and shelter, " writes Howard Mansfield. Drawing on material from his recent book Dwelling in Possibility, Mansfield explores the different types of sheds found around New England and beyond: covered bridges, barns, worksheds, "worship sheds" (meeting houses), extended farmhouses, bob houses for ice fishing. In lyrical style and supported by photographs by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey, Mansfield shows the c...

The Bones of The Earth is a book about landmarks, but of the oldest kind-sticks and stones. For millennia this is all there was: sticks and stones, dirt and trees, animals and people, the sky by day and night. The Lord spoke through burning bushes, through lightning and oaks. Trees and rocks and water were holy. They are commodities today and that is part of our disquiet. Howard Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is t...

Mansfield explores the loss of cultural memory, asking: What is the past? How can the past be constructed? Is it possible to preserve the past as a vital force for the future?

The biography of one of the great pioneers in Americn aviation chasing the dream of flight.