Download e-book for iPad: Remembering Westbrook: The People of the Paper City by Andrea M.P. Vasquez

By Andrea M.P. Vasquez

during this number of her "History issues" columns from the yankee magazine, Andrea Vasquez takes readers again to the early days of Puritans and pioneers, while stately forests, natural world and the land round Westbrook. observe the key burial position of Colonel Thomas Westbrook, the legacies of Westbrook benefactors Joseph Walker and Samuel Dennis Warren and the all-but-forgotten works of grasp sculptor Benjamin Paul Akers, whose lifestyles used to be tragically reduce brief on the top of his occupation. Vasquez preserves the thoughts and tales of those little kids of Westbrook, from Cornelia Warren, a forward-thinking philanthropist and women's recommend, to Fabius Maximus Ray, considered one of Westbrook's first neighborhood historians.

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