Granite & Cedar: The People and the Land of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom - Hardcover

Miller, John M.; Mosher, Howard Frank

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0970551118 ISBN 13: 9780970551115

Publisher: Thistle Hill Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Granite and Cedar represents an unusual collaboration between a documentary photographer and a writer of fiction to produce a haunting portrait of the people and the land of Vermont's most rural area, often referred to as the "Northeast Kingdom."

Veteran photographer JOHN M. MILLER (Dear Camp: Last Light in the Northeast Kingdom) uses his brilliant collection of elegiac, but unsentimental, images dating from the 1970s to evoke the disappearing folkways, the rugged people, and the desolate and abandoned landscape of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller's austere, black-and-white photos richly detail the erosion and the breakup of the small farms of the region and of the families who worked those farms. While they emphasize the stark beauty of the land, they also pay homage to the innate dignity and fierce pride of the people who live in such hardscrabble circumstances.

As both a counterpoint and an underscoring of Miller's thesis, popular Vermont writer HOWARD FRANK MOSHER (The Fall of the Year, Where the Rivers Flow North, Northern Borders, Stranger in the Kingdom, and many others) describes the evolution of a fictional Northeast Kingdom community and its families over several generations. Taken together, these two accounts paint a poignant yet compelling picture of the epochal change that time and societal upheavals produce in a rural population.

About this title

From the Publisher:

9 3/4 x 8 3/4 trim. 68 photographs

About the Author:

John M. Miller, who conceived the idea for this book, uses his brilliant collection of images (most of his photographs in this collection date from the 1970's) to capture both the stark beauty of the landscape and architecture and the resilient character of the inhabitants of his native corner of the Green Mountain State. Miller is author of "Deer Camp: Last Light in the Northeast Kingdom." His work is in a number of museum collections, including New York's Museum of Modern Art and the Robert Hull Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont.

Howard Frank Mosher's companion short story, "Second Sight," is woven into the sequence of visual images describing the evolution of a fictional Northeast Kingdom community and its families over several generations. Mosher is the author of six novels set in the Northeast Kingdom including, "Where the Rivers Flow North," "Stanger in the Kingdom," and "Disappearances."

About this edition

• Publisher: Thistle Hill Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0970551118
• ISBN 13: 9780970551115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108