Micki Savin

I Remember Chesterfield (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

I Remember Chesterfield is a vividly recalled memoir about a way of life that no longer exists. From the 1890's until the 1920's, a small enclave of 50 immigrant Russian Jewish families purchased worn-out Yankee farmland in Chesterfield, Connecticut with assistance from the Baron Maurice de Hirsch Fund. Supplementing their poor livelihoods as farmers, they enterprisingly became small traders, dairymen, pants stitchers, and summer boarding house owners. If they recreated a little European stetl (italics) in turn of the century rural America, they were also fiercely determined to acculturate, and in 1892 incorporated as the New England Hebrew Farmers Association.

Savin, the oldest living great grandchild of community leader Harris Kaplan, passionately and lovingly chronicles life in Chesterfield. She recalls the halcyon days at her grandparents' farm where she picked sun kissed blueberries, bathed in Kosofsky's clear, cool brook, visited her Grandfather's general store, and attended the little Chesterfield synagogue that unified the community through its traditional customs, and rituals. Although it remained a formative influence throughout her life, the Chesterfield Savin once knew knew and loved has long disappeared. In this wonderful book, but it lives again, timeless and compelling.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: AuthorHouse
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781418452506
• Artikelnr.: 53045698

Autorenporträt

Micki Savin, born in Norwich, Connecticut, earned her B.A. in English Literature at Connecticut College and her M.A. in English Literature at Trinity College. In 1932 she married Isadore Savin, a native of Chesterfield, Connecticut, a small rural village near New London, where her own maternal great-grand parents settled soon after they arrived in New York from Russia in the 1890s. During forty years of marriage, Savin was an active volunteer in the Hartford arts community, serving as president for the Hadassah and Sisterhood of the Emanuel Synagogue, the Connecticut Opera Guild and Friends of the Hartford Ballet. In 1965 she received the Woman of the Year Award from the Womans Auxiliary of Bnai, Birth. Savin has written book reviews and numerous articles, many about her travels abroad, for The Hartford Courant. She is still deeply involved with the Connecticut Opera Guild and a board member of the Friends of the Bloomfield Library, Micki Savin has two children, Nancy and David, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.