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Sightseeking : Clues To The Landscape History Of New England

  • Sightseeking : Clues To The Landscape History Of New England

  • Title

    • Revisiting New England

  • Attribution

    Christopher J. Lenney

  • Publication Details

    Book, University of New Hampshire/University Press of New England, 2003

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  • Description

    Through inspired conjecture and methodical fieldwork, Lenney discovered that at least six cultural and material artifacts could be mapped into similar flows and clusters: placenames, boundaries, townplans, roads, houses, and gravestones. The other five cultural markers similarly reveal themselves in a surprising patterning of the New England countryside–in the areas where the connected farmstead dominates, where recessed balconies or twin rearwall chimneys distinguish the scene; By pushing us beyond mere sightseeing to “sightseeking,” Lenney dares to fundamentally alter the way we–old-time Yankee, newcomer, and tourist alike–experience and interpret the New England landscape. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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    • "How does one "read" a landscape? With infectious enthusiasm and wit, Lenney guides the reader through a historical and cultural examination of how New England’s artificial landscape - placenames, boundaries, townplans, roads, houses, and gravestones - came to be. The author makes sense of the placename suffixes that dot our maps - the -fields, -tons, -hams, and -burys that append themselves to our life and land, and forces the reader to reconsider the shape of the village green and the unique hybrids of architecture, to wonder why old roads go where they go, and to question why (good neighbors and Robert Frost notwithstanding) we build stone walls."–BOOK JACKET

  • Contents

    • 1. Prologue
    • Kurathian Hypothesis
    • Windsor Chair
    • Sightseeking Defined
    • 2. Placenames
    • Algonquian Toponyms
    • Folknames
    • Toponymic Density
    • Hydrographic Names
    • Hydrographic Transplants
    • Generic Folknames
    • Name-Strings
    • Transplanted Folknames
    • -Shire Names
    • Township Toponymy
    • Transplanted Town Names
    • All the King’s Men
    • Biblical-Auspicial
    • Same-Suffixed Names
    • Stylistic Zonation
    • Compass-Point Names
    • Blend-names - - Echonyms
    • Name-Changes
    • The Great-Big Line
    • Reversed Center Arc
    • Of Balls and Cobbles
    • The China Syndrome
    • Street Names
    • Generics
    • Colonial
    • Floral -Arboreal
    • Honorific
    • Personal Names
    • Bithematics
    • Sound-alikes
    • Artifactuals
    • Test Names
    • Affinities - - 3. Boundaries and Townplans
    • Cadastre
    • Toolmarks
    • North by Northwest
    • Vitruvian Hypothesis
    • Through a Glass Darkly
    • Mylar Grid
    • Township
    • Townsite Criteria
    • Nuclear Village
    • Infields and Outfields
    • Cambridge
    • Divisions
    • Great Dividends (1636)
    • Charlestown Wood Lots
    • Cambridge Squadrants of 1683
    • Dorchester New Grant
    • Range Township
    • Townplan Templates
    • Ulster Template
    • Brookside Village
    • Street Village
    • Crossroads Village
    • Hilltop Village
    • Templates Revisited
    • Commons
    • Steeple Rows
    • Farms and Fields
    • Wall-net
    • Materials and Contents
    • Form and Function
    • Sources of Evidence
    • Fields as Artifacts
    • Ditches
    • Town Bounds
    • By Farms and Lots
    • Ad Filum Aquae
    • 4. Roads
    • English Model
    • Midwestern Model
    • Organic Model
    • Quo Vadit
    • Contour-keeping
    • Connect- the-Dots
    • Path-ology
    • Nantucket
    • Grid
    • Pretzel
    • 5. Houses
    • Modularity
    • Mobility
    • Conformity
    • House Types
    • Hall House
    • Stone-Ender
    • Whale House
    • Charter House
    • Other One-Room Houses
    • Hall-and-Parlor House
    • Saltbox
    • Central Chimney Large House
    • Cape Cod House
    • One-and-a-Half Cottage
    • Off-Center Square House
    • Center Hall House
    • Twin Rearwall Chimney House
    • Gablefront Houses
    • Connected Farmstead
    • Three- Decker
    • Localism
    • Roof Types
    • Connecticut Valley
    • Hallmarks
    • Materials
    • Figures in the Carpet
    • Stud Frame
    • Plank Frame
    • Infiltrates and Imports
    • Urban Fabric
    • Time Styles
    • Growth Rings
    • The Green Between
    • Slash and Burn
    • Deja Vu
    • Systems
    • Lifewebs
    • 6. Gravestones
    • Attributes
    • Initial Impressions
    • Exotic Stones
    • Patronage Areas
    • Status
    • Rural Cemetery Monuments
    • 7. Epilogue
    • Artifactual Dynamics
    • Other Spill-Stains
    • After 1850
    • Conclusion
    • App. Handlist of Reversed Centers
    • App. China Syndrome
    • App. Handlist of Horribles Parades

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    • 1584652055

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