Patten, David
ADVENTURES IN A REMEMBERED WORLD Unforgettable Tales of Little Compton by David Patten Who Was There
: Rhode Island. No Publisher. . . Hardcover. Brown cloth, gold lettering. Frontispiece portrait. Over a dozen small drawings by Paule Loring. AMERICANA. Sakonnet is a small Rhode Island peninsula, bathed on three sides by the sea; nourished by fertile farm land; peopled by the adventurous descendants of the Mayflower...There are cowboys and Indians..There are politics and politicians, for somehow 'the bosses' seemed to gravitate to S'cunnet, in no small part because the author's family was intimately involved in local, state and national affiars. All this is here in these pages, along with the smell of the salt air, the feel of the warm soil between the toes, the honk of the wild geese, and the soft voices of the Western Islanders as they toiled and loved and celebrated. " ; 9-1/4" Tall; 255 pages. on otherwise clean, unworn and complete DJ.. . ISBN Number:. Keywords:[Rhode Island;]
$20.00
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