Red House: Being a Mostly Accurate Account of New England's Oldest Continuously Lived-in Ho use, (Paperback)

from taletreader

I'm not one for history (except when it comes to war). That being said, this is the first non-fiction piece I've ever read that managed to fuse what seems like nonsensical history together with an overall theme of meaning. I wasn't simply reading a book stating how tall the chimney of Red House i...

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This book could have been so much better than it was - which is the truly disappointing thing. The book tells the story of a house in southern Massachusetts that has been lived in (almost exclusively) by the same family from 1646 through the mid 1960's when a new, unrelated family, buys the hou...

from scrappycat

The Red House is the oldest continuously lived in house in New England. It was built by Walter Hatch in 1646. When he died, he left a will sayaing that the house could never be sold. It was to be passed down from generation to generation. It was, for over 300 years, until 1965 when Sarah Messer's...

from book58lover

A biography of a house. Who knew? Going back and forth between the history of the Hatch family and the autobiographical history of the author's family this book tells the story of the inhabitants of the oldest continuously lived in house is New England. It is often difficult to take in the detail...

from book58lover

A biography of a house. Who knew? Going back and forth between the history of the Hatch family and the autobiographical history of the author's family this book tells the story of the inhabitants of the oldest continuously lived in house is New England. It is often difficult to take in the detail...