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The history of the Windham, Connecticut town farm and almshouse and the services to the poor in Connecticut
Author : Michael Westerfield
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Page : 322 pages
File Size : 38,33 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
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ISBN : 9780937992012
The history of the Windham, Connecticut town farm and almshouse and the services to the poor in Connecticut
Author : John Updike
Publisher : Random House
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0679645772
“Brilliant . . . Here is the conflict of real ideas; of real personalities; here is a work of intellectual imagination and great charity. The Poorhouse Fair is a work of art.”—The New York Times Book Review The hero of John Updike’s first novel, published when the author was twenty-six, is ninety-four-year-old John Hook, a dying man who yet refuses to be dominated. His world is a poorhouse—a county home for the aged and infirm—overseen by Stephen Conner, a righteous young man who considers it his duty to know what is best for others. The action of the novel unfolds over a single summer’s day, the day of the poorhouse’s annual fair, a day of escalating tensions between Conner and the rebellious Hook. Its climax is a contest between progress and tradition, benevolence and pride, reason and faith. Praise for The Poorhouse Fair “A first novel of rare precision and real merit . . . a rich poorhouse indeed.”—Newsweek “Turning on a narrow plot of ground, it achieves the rarity of bounded, native truth, and comes forth as microcosm.”—Commonweal
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Page : 868 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Juvenile delinquency
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Author : David Wagner
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742529458
Many of us grew up hearing our parents exclaim 'you are driving me to the poorhouse!' or remember the card in the Monopoly game which says 'Go to the Poorhouse! Lose a Turn!' Yet most Americans know little or nothing of this institution that existed under a variety of names for approximately three hundred years of American history. Exploring the history of the 'inmates' as well as staff and officials in New England, this book connects contemporary times to the 'poorhouse' history as the homeless shelter, jail, prison, and other institutions again hold millions of poor people under institutional care, sometimes in the very same structures that were poorhouses.
Author : Jay Benson Hamilton
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Page : 226 pages
File Size : 30,53 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Itinerancy (Church polity)
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Author : Ed Sweeney
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Page : 238 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Almshouses
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Author : Cathy Wurzer
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873516266
In this companion book to a new Twin Cities Public Television documentary also called "Tales of the Road" (airing in November 2008), Wurzer unearths stories about Highway 61, spotlighting famous and fascinating locations, many of them little remembered today.
Author : John Young
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Page : 82 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Poor
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Author : State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.)
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Page : 696 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Charities
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Author : John YOUNG (of Port Dundas, Glasgow.)
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,85 MB
Release : 1860
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