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This is a lovely peek into Vermont of yesterday : in the words of the author
Dear Reader,
We shall move through the seasons together, and I owe it to your fuller understanding to explain two or three small points before we start.
1. When twelve years are telescoped into one, the item runs eleven chances out of twelve of landing on a calendar date which was not its original setting. Newspaper excerpts, stories heard, college episodes, appear with a time relativity suggestive of dogs freezing to the sidewalks in the August of The Skin in Our Teeth. Nature's schedule being enexorable, the Nature dates have been given priority.
2. Since 1940, Vermont has changed more than in the full century preceding. Tractor and truck supplant the horse; but human ways alter slowly. The calmness and independence founded on the old agricultural community life still remains.
3. Neither in its observations of the outdoor world nor in its Vermont material does this record's modest contribution mainly lie, in the opinion of its parent, but in its discovery of that rare find, happiness, amid the humble, the simple, the obscure.
CONDITION: Hard Cover, no dust jacket, lovely condition, FIRST edition
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