{"product_id":"last-of-the-hill-farms-echoes-of-vermont-s-past","title":"Last of the Hill Farms : Echoes of Vermont's Past","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA striking book....an arresting, wistful portrait of an all-but-gone way of life.--\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebration of a way of life, and the people who lived it, in rural Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. In the early seventies, this was a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and outhouses--far removed in time and space from the industrial world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1968 the photographer Richard Brown moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life--as it had been lived for generations--that was fast disappearing. A time when a farmer could make a living with a herd of thirty cows with a little sugaring or lumbering on the side. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eBrown saw a pastoral vision where, for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past―granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man―was made palpable. He saw the land and also a people whose endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity and who believed their age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself--labors that might just hold modernity at bay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003eOver the years that followed, Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10″ large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people--grave, strong, resolute--who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and did so with great but fierce attachment. The images still speak to our own need for attachment, simplicity, and a connection to the land.","brand":"Phoenix Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46609730961577,"sku":"PHBK-9781567926057","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0578\/9899\/1785\/files\/content_b341f628-f50e-449d-ab5f-bcd406b00473.jpg?v=1764807063","url":"https:\/\/myti.com\/products\/last-of-the-hill-farms-echoes-of-vermont-s-past","provider":"Myti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}