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The Last of the Hill Farms : Echoes of Vermont's Past - Richard W. Brown

The Last of the Hill Farms

Echoes of Vermont's Past

By: Richard W. Brown, Richard W Brown (Photographer)

Hardcover | 15 January 2018

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This is, in every way, an extraordinary book, and it is no light claim to say it will stand, along with Agee's and Evans' record of the dirt farmers of Alabama, and George Tice's record of the Amish of Pennsylvania, as one of the great odes to an America that has passed before our eyes almost without comment or notice. It is a valiant, indeed a brilliant, effort to make the past tangible, to bring it back to life. These images, and the brief but trenchant text that accompanies them, will stay with you for life. It is among the most beautiful and moving books this company has ever attempted.
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Praise for Last of the Hill Farms

"A striking book....an arresting, wistful portrait of an all-but-gone way of life."
-Boston Globe

"His is an important vision: much of Vermont is still beautiful, but we need to see and appreciate the ideal if we are to preserve it. [His] photography expresses that ideal superlatively well."
-Vermont Life

"In The Last of The Hill Farms, first impressions from these remarkable images give way to second, third and fourth appreciations, as all of the elements of Richard Brown's rich compositions are caringly revealed. Vermont's quilted patchwork of hard-scrabble Hill Farms, and the flinty Vermonters who scraped livings from them, are defining elements of Vermont's heritage, deserving of this superb documentation. Carefully and skillfully setting fence stones and roof shingles one at a time, with weather-worn hands, these Vermonters helped forge our working economy and the fabric of our society, infused with the ethic and character of their New England persistence. They took pride in their land and what they achieved with it, and Richard Brown's unforgettable images help us to take pride in them. All Vermonters can know their history is here. I value Richard Brown's gift to us all."
-U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy

"Mr. Brown is my favorite upcountry artist with a camera. His photographs have such a crisp luminosity I think I would recognize them anywhere. Uniquely, he captures the quality of northern light, whether it's the beatification of a curly Dorset sheep or the stunning blow of sunlight hammering the east face of a snowed-in farmhouse."
-Maxine Kumin, The New York Times Book Review

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