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Book SynopsisCelebrates a bygone American era, focusing on life in 1920s Terre Haute, Indiana.
Trade ReviewTom Roznowski has deployed the 1927 City Directory of Terre Haute like a mist net across time to catch a vanished place. An American Hometown is part Akenfield—Robert Blythe's portrait of an English village—and part Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology. Terre Haute, 1927, is more alive than many American cities today.
-- Howard Mansfield
Tom Roznowski brings the lost world of a city back to life, and in so doing asks us to re-imagine the way we live now. December 2009/January 2010
* Bloom Magazine *
For Roznowski, the pursuit of the past is not an exercise in nostalgia, but an attempt to bring wisdom forward—to learn not just from our mistakes as a culture, but from the things we did right as well, and then left by the wayside in the 20th century's mad dash to a consumerist, automobile-centered society.February/March 2010
* Bloom *
Roznowski is an evocative, romantic storyteller, and his research revives a simpler time and place not far from here. March 28, 2010
* The Herald Times *
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword by Scott Russell Sanders
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Abel Manufacturing Company—to—Robert Axlander
Bachelor Club—to—Roxie Byrd
Barden Calloway—to—John Crowe
Daphne Confectionary—to—Lemon H. Dunn
Tilatha East—to—Mary Euriga
Ethel Failing—to—Emma Fyfe
James H. Gallian—to—Flora G. Gulick
Joseph A. Haddox—to—Frances Hughes
Josephine Ice—to—Abe Issac
Mary Jackman—to—William R. Joyce
Albert Kaeling—to—Lillian Kuhn
Minnie Mayme Lacy—to—Lena B. Lyda
Albert McBride—to—Ernestine Myers Dancing Academy
Agnes Nairn—to—North Baltimore Bottle Glass Company
Harry E. Oaf—to—James Osler
Mabel P. Paine—to—Arvella Pushback
The Quality Shop—to—Jacob Ryan
St. Joseph's Academy—to—Marcella Swim
Elmer E. Talbott—to—Alice Twadell
Jacob Umble—to—Alm Utz
Ohmer D. Vance—to—Robert T. Vrydagh
Clarence W. Wagner—to—John Wright
Ivan Yates—to—George A. Zwerner
Index
