Everyday Life in Early Vermont: A Learning Activity Packet for a Nine Week Mini-Course

Book. Good+. Spiral Softcover. Moderate wear & creasing to covers. Very small stain on cover & on first pg. A few small ink marks on first pg. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. Scarce. From the intoductory material: "This course is an attempt to do several things at once. It is an anthropological/sociological approach to history in which the folk culture of a particular place and time is investigated. It is hoped that this approach makes Vermont history more interesting to the student...This course hopes to encourage those students who are not usually successful in an academic (reading/writing) environment by placing heavy emphasis on manual, visual, and oral skills, and plain common sense. It involves a social science skill that is just gaining prominence in history; oral history...Through craft projects, it is hoped to spark an interest in crafts as a hobby or even vocation...Course Description: A study of the people and culture of that place that became Vermont. It will deal with the settlement and development of the state with particular emphasis on the role in history of ordinary people. This course will not restrict itself to famous people and important political or economic events. It will try to deal with the total culture as lived by ordinary citizens...".