New England Industries: Resources

Settled before the Revolution, the upper Connecticut River Valley region is home to Plainfield and Meriden, New Hampshire. In describing the transition of Plainfield from a great sheep farming town before the Civil War to a comfortable bedroom community today, the book underscores the importance of Plainfield as a case study for community growth and urbanization in western New Hampshire.

New Hampshire is among the fastest-growing states in the country. Firmly enmeshed in the new economy, it is experiencing a profound period of growth and change. Landry offers a snapshot of New Hamphire's cultural and business landscape during this time of dramatic change.

A lavishly-illustrated social history of the manufacturers that did most to transform the character of New England and of America.

The Almanac is organized by month, and provides a year's worth of stories, data, illustrations, and photography. Each edition records the prior year's weather, trends in agriculture, changes in the forest, and developments in the rural economy. In this sense, Vermont Almanac frames time: when you're wondering what year the forest tent caterpillar infestation was, or if deer season 2020 was the snowy one or the mild one, you'll have a record to consult. But each volume does more than look back; it also introduces readers to the people who inspire hope for the future of the land we all share. The farmers, loggers, conservationists, homesteaders, scientists, hunters - in short, the 'doers' - who are preserving and pioneering a rural way of life in an increasingly urbanized culture.