North of Monadnock

By Newton F. Tolman

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DZLR2
• Release Date: January 1961
• Publisher: Little, Brown
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

NH Yankee Wit Wisdom and Wonderful Tales

I found this book at a library sale. I was sucked right in. What a wonderful bit of nostalgia. My family has been going North to NH for all of my 41 years. Characters like the ones in Mr Tolman's wonderful and light book, bring back the wonderful memories of my youth. When you went to the local store, the McCormack spinster sisters ran the show and clearly weren't there for the money. Old timers sitting near the potbellied stove smoking pipes and cigars, told deer hunting stories or whatever the local gossip was. Always friendly. Mr Tolman tells us about his life and adventures over by Keene NH somewhere back in the 30's through the 60's. He seems to convey that having fun is what it's all about and seems to spend most days birdhunting with his accomplished wife and other local characters. It really reflects priorities in a slower but changing age. All the local characters and their often amusing and sometime sad tales are told in a wonderful conversational style. Even got a story about a monkey in a tree in the middle of the NH woods. A monkey? How'd it get in the NH woods...Very good! Loved it and read it in a day and read it again another day. Really shows the way NH Yankees and their villages were, not so long ago. Wonderful.