Jon Gilbert Fox Ernest Hebert (5 results)

HC. 138pp ISBN 1584655259 fine w/fine dustjacket (hardcover). color illustrations (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st. Photographs and text that bring New Hampshire to life. 138pp 1.86lb 9.3x9.3x0.6in.

Hardcover. Condition: Used - Like New. For most people familiar with New Hampshire, the Granite State has two distinct identities. New Hampshire is often depicted as a place of picturesque farms, mountains, forests, and postcard-perfect villages with pretty town commons and colonial era houses. Yet for most of the twentieth century, such New Hampshire cities and towns as Manchester, Berlin and Keene developed small-scale urban industrialized societies dominated by textile, woolen, and paper mills. In the twenty-first century, New Hampshire's duality has given way to a far more varied identity. Radical demographic and economic changes have transformed entire regions. Some towns in Southern New Hampshire have doubled and tripled in size, serving as bedroom communities for greater Boston. Increased property development in the two lakes regions and the Upper Valley continue to transform small town rural life in unexpected ways. This book offers two personal looks at a state whose venerable history stands in lively contrast to its changing times. Over a hundred full-color photographs by Jon Gilbert Fox capture the charm of small town parades and agricultural fairs, as well as the uniqueness of such traditional New Hampshire places as Franconia Notch, Strawbery Banke, and Canterbury Shaker Village. Fox also brings to vivid life more recent cultural phenomena, including the NASCAR races at Loudon and Laconia's annual motorcycle week. Complementing Fox's visual appreciation of New Hampshire are ten essays by Ernest Hebert, one of the state's most beloved native sons. Hebert, a lifelong citizen of New Hampshire, weaves personal experience and family traditions into essays that include meditations on the (former) Old Man of the Mountain, New Hampshire politics, baseball, motorcycles, fly fishing, moose, yard sales, chopping wood, and more. Taken together, Fox's photographs and Hebert's text provide an elegant and richly textured salute to the Granite State. Photographs and text that bring contemporary New Hampshire to life.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hebert, Ernest., University Press of New England (NH), 2007, c2007, 1st Edition, 1st printing, cloth with gilt spine title (hard cover), fine with very near fine dj, 138 pp, extensive full color photography by Jon Gilbert Fox, tall 8vo square, ISBN: 1584655259, 'Photographs and text that bring contemporary New Hampshire to life; captures the charm of small town parades and agricultural fairs, as well as the uniqueness of such traditional New Hampshire places as Franconia Notch, Strawbery Banke, and Canterbury Shaker Village. Fox also brings to vivid life more recent cultural phenomena, including the NASCAR races at Loudon and Laconia's annual motorcycle week'.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.