Author: Paula A. Scott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-11-14

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 1317731417

The focus for this study is Connecticut and the city of Hartford. The text explores different themes and experiences of the elderly in Connecticut in the years between 1790 and 1830 The purpose of the book is to record and to illuminate the spiritual and emotional aspects of being elderly, the economic consequences of growing old, and the ways social experience changed with advancing years.