Cultivating Gentlemen
Cultivating Gentlemen

Author: Tamara Plakins Thornton

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0300042566

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Between the Revolution and the Civil War, many merchants, financiers, manufacturers, lawyers, and politicians of Boston’s elite settles on country estates, took up gentleman farming, and founded agricultural and horticultural societies. It is a curious fact of history that these men, who were directly responsible for changing the Massachusetts economy from a farming to a commercial and industrial one, spent so much time identifying themselves with things rural and agrarian. In this lively and well-illustrated book, Tamara Plakins Thornton documents the rural pursuits and argues that elite Bostonians drew on their rich reservoir of associations to characterize themselves as virtuous members of a legitimate American elite.

Recollections of Brookline
Recollections of Brookline

Author: Samuel Aspinwall Goddard

Publisher:

Published: 2015-08-04

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9781332184941

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Excerpt from Recollections of Brookline: Being an Account of the Houses, the Families, and the Roads, in Brookline, in the Years 1800 to 1810 Sir, There are probably but few persons living who have a distinct recollection of all the houses in Brookline, and of the families occupying them, in the early years of the present century; but whether so or not, an account of them, with some passing remarks, may be sufficiently interesting to justify your placing it before your readers. I will premise that I write on the spur of the moment, stimulated perhaps by seeing my name brought before my old townsmen in a recent number of your paper, the only number I have ever seen. I write entirely from memory, not having referred to any books or documents, nor having consulted any one whatever, and consequently there may be some errors, but I believe the account will be found generally correct. At the commencement of this period there were but two houses on the borders of Jamaica pond besides the Acqueduct house: viz. a red brick house opposite the centre on the east side, occupied by a French family, and a house at the south-west corner of the pond, at the entrance of the road to upper Brookline, occupied by a Mr. Brimmer. At a later date, say about the year 1807, Mr. James Perkins, of Boston, built a house on the east side, towards the north end of the pond. Mr. Brimmer kept in his fields a number of mules, said to be very vicious. They were the terror of the children who had to pass down that way to Jamaica plain, to do shopping at the well known "small-wares" shop of Mr. Brewer, and the equally well-known "crockery" shop kept by Mrs. Star. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.