The extraordinary diary of Vermont farmer Hiram Harwood--a
fourteen-volume record of personal, family, and community events
from 1808 to 1837--provides Robert E. Shalhope with the material
for this rich microhistory. Harwood's struggle to reach full
manhood and assume his position as head of the family, his
misgivings about challenging--much less displacing--his father, the
changes American life brought to this traditional rite of passage,
Hiram's relationships with wife and children, seasonal events, and
all the day-to-day experiences of this finally tragic figure make
for a fascinating story and provide a highly unusual window into
antebellum American life.
Although he focuses mainly on the story of a single farmer,
Shalhope also incorporates other stories from this wide-ranging
chronicle. Readers glimpse the social, political, economic, and
religious life of the entire New England region. Most of all,
though, the story of Hiram Harwood reveals the personal price
exacted of him by one family's unyielding belief in patriarchy.
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