Robert Mennel

Testimonies and Secrets (eBook, PDF)

The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977

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Produktbeschreibung

This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia¿s South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844¿1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (1912¿1977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold¿s correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world.Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442667020
• Artikelnr.: 54006164

Autorenporträt

By Robert M. Mennel

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Illustrations
Introduction
Prologue: Lunenburg and “Crouse town Mills,” 1753-1844
Chapter I: Young Man on the Rise
Chapter II: John Will Crouse’s Village, 1871-1884
Chapter III: The Family and Its World, 1880-1900
Chapter IV: John Will Crouse’s Autumn-time, 1898-1914
Chapter V: Descendants—the Eikle Family and Harold, 1909-1943
Chapter VI: A Family's End, 1943-1977
Epilogue: Crousetown, 2007
Appendices
Note on Sources
Chapter Notes
Acknowledgements
Illustration Credits
Index