{"product_id":"the-last-of-the-hill-farms-echoes-of-vermonts-past-hardcover","title":"The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont's Past - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard W. Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eRichard W. Brown\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A striking book....an arresting, wistful portrait of an all-but-gone way of life.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebration of a way of life, and the people who lived it, in rural Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. In the early seventies, this was a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and outhouses--far removed in time and space from the industrial world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1968 the photographer Richard Brown moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life--as it had been lived for generations--that was fast disappearing. A time when a farmer could make a living with a herd of thirty cows with a little sugaring or lumbering on the side. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBrown saw a pastoral vision where, \"for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past―granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man―was made palpable.\" He saw the land and also a people whose \"endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity\" and who believed their \"age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself--labors that might just hold modernity at bay.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOver the years that followed, Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10″ large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people--grave, strong, resolute--who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and \"did so with great but fierce attachment.\" The images still speak to our own need for attachment, simplicity, and a connection to the land.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 136\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 11.2 x 9.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766436299040,"sku":"9781567926057","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/773d675b7cf557892795b299cb9fc561.webp?v=1780292688","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-last-of-the-hill-farms-echoes-of-vermonts-past-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}