Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories

By: Stowe, Harriet Beecher

In those days we had no magazines and daily papers, each reeling off a serial story. Once a week, "The Columbian Sentinel" came from Bos-ton with its slender stock of news and editorial; but all the multiform devices-pictorial, narra-tive, and poetical-which keep the mind of the present generation ablaze with excitement, had not then even an existence. There was no theatre, no opera; there were in Oldtown no parties or balls, except, perhaps, the annual election, or Thanksgiving festival; and when winter came, and the sun went down at half-past four o'clock, and left the long, dark hours of evening to be provided for, the necessity of amusement became urgent. Hence, in those days, chimney-corner sto-ry-telling became an art and an accomplishment. Society then was full of traditions and narratives which had all the uncertain glow and shifting mystery of the firelit hearth upon them.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KH3RY87
• ISBN13: 9798692602947
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"