This celebration of the local and ordinary in life, "about things, people and ideals through which the past becomes almost palpable," said the New York Times. It is also an account of time and change in America. At once provocative and eloquent, "In the Memory House" explores how progress has created absences in our landscapes and our lives.
Mansfield tracks society's need to reconnect with place and memory. Moving between meditative reflection an compelling insights, he offers lively journalistic descriptions of extraordinary people who are imaginatively, lovingly realizing their own visions of the restorative impulse.
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 GOOD, GOOD PIG GETS HIS OWN PICTURE BOOK, PERFECT FOR YOUNG READERS. Christopher Hogwood is definitely a pig with personality! He's bright, curious, and has just a slight infatuation with rich, inviting mud. "Hogwood Steps Out" is Howard Mansfield's fictionalized account of his own pig's behavior on a fine spring day, a pig made famous in his ...
In the language of the area's original inhabitants, Mount Monadnock, in the southwest corner of New Hampshire, is "the mountain that stands alone." This anthology, with its rich mix of original essays, historical texts, and excerpts from oral histories, celebrates the natural and human history of this region. Editor Howard Mansfield says that "the ...
Brian Vanden Brink is one of America's most sought-after architectural photographers. He is also drawn to the mystery and unexpected beauty found in abandoned architecture. Here Vanden Brink captures and illuminates in stunning black and white images abandoned structures such as mills, bridges, grain elevators, churches, and storefronts-structures ...
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