Village History

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    The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
    —G.M. (George Macaulay)