Winner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award ``Big house, little house, back house, barn``--this rhythmic cadence was sung by nineteenth-century children as they played.
It also portrays the four essential components of the farms where many of them lived.
The stately and beautiful connected farm buildings made by nineteenth-century New Englanders stand today as a living expression of a rural culture, offering insights into the people who made them and their agricultural way of life.
A visual delight as well as an engaging tribute to our nineteenth-century forebears, this book has become one of the standard works on regional farmsteads in America.
University Press Of New England Big house, little house, back house, barn: the connected farm buildings of new england, paperback/thomas c. hubka
