• List of Maps • The American Quest for Placelessness—Howard Mansfield • First Encounters • Readings: Indians and Wolves • Sokoki Homeland from Monadnock: K’namitobena Sokwaki—Marge Bruchac • Phineas Stevens at the Threshold of the Frontier—David Stewart-Smith • 11,000 Years on the Ashuelot—Robert Goodby • Borders and Boundaries—John R. Harris • The Disorderly Origins of the Granite State—Peter Sauer • Journal: The Lost Child—Nathaniel Hawthorne • Making Land • Report: The New Road to Keene, 1839 • Report: Connecticut River Ferry, 1900 • Parables of Place—Tom Wessels • Journal: Thoreau on Monadnock, 1860—Henry David Thoreau • Report: Following Thoreau—J. Parker Huber • Recollections: Marlborough’s Granite Quarry—John R. Harris • A Mill Girl’s Offering—Ronald Jager • The Family History of Water—Howard Mansfield • “Plant Your Apples on the Hills”—Jane Brox • Recollections: Marion Davis, Cattle Drover—Mortimer Peebles • The Grange Votes Down Automobiles—Haydn S. Pearson • Emptying Out • The Last 113 People—Alan F. Rumrill • Letter: Stoddard Reawakening, 1946—Charles L. Pierce • Land of Stone—Kevin Gardner • Blueberry Planet—Roger B. Swain • The Tragic Life of William Preston Phelps—Edie Clark • The Poor Farm—John R. Harris
• Recollections: The Green Army of Camp Annett—Jonathan Schach • Recollections: Lost Ski Areas—Mortimer Peebles • Readings: “What Ails New England?” • Returning • Readings: The Folks of the Monadnock Region Want you for a Neighbor! • Abbott Thayer in the Spell of Monadnock—Richard Meryman • Letter: A Dublin Summer—Mark Twain • Confessions of a Part-Time Squire—Newton F. Tolman • Report: How to Build a House—Raphael Pumpelly
• Far from Nebraska’s Prairies—Linda Dyer • Grandfather’s Farm—Nancy Hayden • Back to the Land—Edie Clark • Getting Out of the Hole in Nelson—Jim Collins • Eminent Domain: Evicted to Create Pisgah Park—Elizabeth Getchell • Recollections: Pisgah, a Place Apart—Jonathan Schach • The Return of the Wild—Sy Montgomery • Here and Now in the Global Market • Taxi—Ernest Hebert • Il Sentimento della Casa (A Sense of Home)—Paul B. Hertneky • “This Is a Great Country, and Don’t Forget It”—Dayton Duncan • The Last Mill in Town—Paul B. Hertneky
• Recollections: The Working Life, I. Marlborough Mill • Recollections: The Working Life, II. Lawrence Tannery—Geoffrey Douglas • "How Did It Go Today?”—Martha Weinman Lear • Letter: And Not So Well for Others—Dawn Powell • Drawing Our Desires: The Endless Keene Bypass Controversy—William Craig • Recollections: The Last Train Out of Town—John R. Harris • Quiet Boomtown—Gerald Burns • Report: New Hampshire by the Numbers • Is There a Monadnock Land Ethic?—Richard Ober • Report: The Last Hurrah for New England Thrift; or, Use It Once, Toss It Out, Buy More—Chesterfield Town Report • Mr. Roy’s Market—Janisse Ray • Our Town—Tim Clark • APPENDIX: You Can Get There from Here • My Favorite Views of the Mountain—Judson D. Hale, Sr. • Directions to Some of the Places in This Book • Bibliography and Sources • List of Contributors • Illustration Credits and Acknowledgments • Editor’s Note • Index

MAPS • The Monadnock Region and Its Relation to New England
• The Masonian Curve • Historic Indian Trails • Contested New Hampshire/Massachusetts Border • Postglacial Landscapes of the Monadnock Region • Hidden Ireland: Stone Walls and Fields in West Peterborough • Pisgah State Park Outlined on an 1858 Map
• Ruralburbia: Fragmented Population Growth • The Mind of the Monadnock School District: A Modern Maze