I Remember Chesterfield (ePub)
I Remember Chesterfield is a vividly recalled memoir
about a way of life that no longer exists. From the 1890's until the 1920's, a
small enclave of 50 immigrant Russian Jewish families purchased worn-out Yankee farmland in...
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I Remember Chesterfield is a vividly recalled memoir
about a way of life that no longer exists. From the 1890's until the 1920's, a
small enclave of 50 immigrant Russian Jewish families purchased
Connecticut with assistance from the Baron Maurice de Hirsch Fund.
Supplementing their poor livelihoods as farmers, they enterprisingly became
small traders, dairymen, pants stitchers, and summer boarding house owners. If
they recreated a little European stetl (italics) in turn of the century rural
America, they were also fiercely
determined to acculturate, and in 1892
incorporated as the New England Hebrew Farmers Association.
Savin, the oldest living great grandchild of
and lovingly chronicles life in Chesterfield. She recalls the halcyon days at her
grandparents' farm where she picked sun kissed blueberries, bathed in
Kosofsky's clear, cool brook, visited
her Grandfather's general store, and attended the little Chesterfield synagogue
that unified the community through its traditional customs, and rituals.
Although it remained a formative influence
throughout her life, the Chesterfield
Savin once knew knew and loved has long
disappeared. In this wonderful book, but it lives again,
Micki Savin, born in Norwich, Connecticut, earned
her B.A. in English Literature at Connecticut College and her M.A. in English
Literature at Trinity College. In 1932 she married Isadore Savin, a native of
Chesterfield, Connecticut, a small rural village near New London, where her own
maternal great-grand parents settled soon after they arrived in New York from
Russia in the 1890s. During forty years of marriage, Savin was an active
volunteer in the Hartford arts community, serving as president for the Hadassah
and Sisterhood of the Emanuel Synagogue, the Connecticut Opera Guild and
Friends of the Hartford Ballet. In 1965 she received the Woman of the Year
Award from the Womans Auxiliary of Bnai, Birth. Savin has written book
reviews and numerous articles, many about her travels abroad, for The Hartford Courant. She is still
deeply involved with the Connecticut Opera Guild and a board member of the
Friends of the Bloomfield Library, Micki Savin has two children, Nancy and
David, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
- Autor: Micki Savin
- 2004, 224 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: AUTHORHOUSE
- ISBN-10: 1418452505
- ISBN-13: 9781418452506
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.11.2004
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- Größe: 12 MB
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