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I Remember Chesterfield (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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I Remember Chesterfield (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
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I Remember Chesterfield is a vividly recalled memoir about a way of
life that no longer exists. From the 1890's until the 1920's, a
small enclave of 50 immigrant Russian Jewish families purchased
worn-out Yankee farmland in Chesterfield, Connecticut with
assistance from the Baron Maurice de Hirsch Fund. Supplementing
their poor livelihoods as farmers, they enterprisingly became small
traders, dairymen, pants stitchers, and summer boarding house
owners. If they recreated a little European stetl (italics) in turn
of the century rural America, they were also fiercely determined to
acculturate, and in 1892 incorporated as the New England Hebrew
Farmers Association. passionately and lovingly chronicles life in
Chesterfield. She recalls the halcyon days at her grandparents'
farm where she picked sun kissed blueberries, bathed in Kosofsky's
clear, cool brook, visited her Grandfather's general store, and
attended the little Chesterfield synagogue that unified the
community through its traditional customs, and rituals. Although it
remained a formative influence throughout her life, the
Chesterfield Savin once knew knew and loved has long disappeared.
In this wonderful book, but it lives again, timeless and
compelling.
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