Around Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for thousands of years played a critical role in the lives and history of the Wabanaki. Memlabagwok-the Abenaki name for the lake-was the waterway crossroads at the heart of the western Abenaki homelands. Since the 1600s, Lake Memphremagog has influenced the development of the northern Vermont and southern Canadian towns and villages along its shores. This combined cultural history and heritage is recalled here through sketches, vintage photographs, a... Read More
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Around Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for thousands of years played a critical role in the lives and history of the Wabanaki. Memlabagwok-the Abenaki name for the lake-was the waterway crossroads at the heart of the western Abenaki homelands. Since the 1600s, Lake Memphremagog has influenced the development of the northern Vermont and southern Canadian towns and villages along its shores. This combined cultural history and heritage is recalled here through sketches, vintage photographs, a... Read More
Around Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for thousands of years played a critical role in the lives and history of the Wabanaki. Memlabagwok-the Abenaki name for the lake-was the waterway crossroads at the heart of the western Abenaki homelands. Since the 1600s, Lake Memphremagog has influenced the development of the northern Vermont and southern Canadian towns and villages along its shores. This combined cultural history and heritage is recalled here through sketches, vintage photographs, and postcards.
Details
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 24th October 2003
State: Vermont
ISBN: 9780738512501
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional) PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
Author Bio
Author Bea Aldrich Nelson is of Abenaki descent and is the cultural resource manager for the Alnobak Heritage Preservation Center. Author and local historian Barbara Kaiser Malloy is president of the Memphremagog Historical Society of Newport. Both have dedicated years to the preservation of their cultural histories and the history of Lake Memphremagog, which connects Vermont's Northeast Kingdom to the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Author and local historian Barbara Kaiser Malloy is a genealogist and president of the Memphremagog Historical Society of Newport. She has been collecting facts, tales, and images of the Newport area for nearly two decades. By writing Newport and the Northeast Kingdom, she has fulfilled her longtime dream of bringing to life the history of this exceptional area.
Around Lake Memphremagog is a pictorial timeline of the thirty-mile-long body of water that shares its Vermont history with Canada. The lake has for thousands of years played a critical role in the lives and history of the Wabanaki. Memlabagwok-the Abenaki name for the lake-was the waterway crossroads at the heart of the western Abenaki homelands. Since the 1600s, Lake Memphremagog has influenced the development of the northern Vermont and southern Canadian towns and villages along its shores. This combined cultural history and heritage is recalled here through sketches, vintage photographs, and postcards.
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 24th October 2003
State: Vermont
ISBN: 9780738512501
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional) PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
Author Bea Aldrich Nelson is of Abenaki descent and is the cultural resource manager for the Alnobak Heritage Preservation Center. Author and local historian Barbara Kaiser Malloy is president of the Memphremagog Historical Society of Newport. Both have dedicated years to the preservation of their cultural histories and the history of Lake Memphremagog, which connects Vermont's Northeast Kingdom to the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
Author and local historian Barbara Kaiser Malloy is a genealogist and president of the Memphremagog Historical Society of Newport. She has been collecting facts, tales, and images of the Newport area for nearly two decades. By writing Newport and the Northeast Kingdom, she has fulfilled her longtime dream of bringing to life the history of this exceptional area.
