{"product_id":"the-last-of-the-hill-richard-w-brown-9781567926057","title":"The Last of the Hill Farms: Echoes of Vermont's Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A striking book....an arresting, wistful portrait of an all-but-gone way of life.\"--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebration of a way of life, and the people who lived it, in rural Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. In the early seventies, this was a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and outhouses--far removed in time and space from the industrial world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1968 the photographer Richard Brown moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life--as it had been lived for generations--that was fast disappearing. A time when a farmer could make a living with a herd of thirty cows with a little sugaring or lumbering on the side. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBrown saw a pastoral vision where, \"for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past―granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man―was made palpable.\" He saw the land and also a people whose \"endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity\" and who believed their \"age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself--labors that might just hold modernity at bay.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOver the years that followed, Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10″ large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people--grave, strong, resolute--who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and \"did so with great but fierce attachment.\" The images still speak to our own need for attachment, simplicity, and a connection to the land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard W. Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1567926053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781567926057\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e David R. Godine Publisher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 9.30w x 0.70d","brand":"Richard W. Brown","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44047245148415,"sku":"9781567926057","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fa2a73f5-11cf-4409-8ec0-952b00d75d2b.jpg?v=1684989095","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-last-of-the-hill-richard-w-brown-9781567926057","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}