Our Hometown : America's History, as Seen Through the Eyes of a Midwestern Village

by Reynolds, Cynthia Furlong

• ISBN13: 9781585360000
• ISBN10: 1585360007
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Table of Contents

Prologue The Silhouette Against the Landscape	11	(4)
The Beginning	15	(16)
The Civil War	31	(14)
In Search of History
Post-War America: The 1870s and 1880s	45	(28)
Home Sweet Home
The Fellowship of Churches
Ready for Business
Fun Times in the Young Town
The Turn of the Century: 1890-1914	73	(32)
Business is Our Business
The Brightest and the Best
Getting a Start in Business
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
Far-Away, Forgotten Battlefields
Dear Old Golden Rule Days
The Town Was Jumping
World War I: 1914-1918	105	(8)
We Remember
The Roaring '20s	113	(28)
Relief, at Last!
The Business Side of Town
Fun at the Lake
A Stroll Down Main Street and---Memory Lane
The Depression: The 1930s	141	(10)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Rallying for Chelsea's Centennial
The Business Community Gets Hit on the Chin
Life on the Farm	151	(20)
Four Generations on a German Farm: Alton and Arlene Grau
The Beach Front: General Dwight E. Beach
Tenant Farming at North Lake: The Noah Family
A Self-Sufficient Way of Life: The Guthrie Farm
Onion Farming South of Town: The Chapman Family
World War II: 1940-1945	171	(16)
On the Battlefield
On the Home Front
War-Time Industries
The Post-World War II Years: The 1950s	187	(12)
America Reinvents Itself
The Korean Conflict
The Life of Reilly
Chelsea's 125th Anniversary
Business Moves into a New Age
The Vietnam Years: The 1960s and 1970s	199	(12)
In the Service, in the Rice Paddies and in the Jungles
Back at Home with the Baby-Boomers
Change Comes to Chelsea: The 1980s	211	(4)
Changes Come at a Dizzying Rate
Architecture	215	(18)
To Preserve and Protect
Fire!
The Close of Another Century: The 1990s	233	(10)
The Purple Rose Blooms---And So Does Chelsea
The New Millennium: 2000 and Beyond	243	(12)
Life on the Farm: The Rodgers Family
Out with the Old, in with the New
Epilogue About Memories	255