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FACIAL EXPRESSIONS OF HOME by Sherrill ChownA road travelled
290 pages - shows some minor markings in interior by former owner - published in 1993.
About 122 photos with information on Keirstead (Henry and Eliza) - Israel and Laura, Chown, Kelly, Warren, Morris, McFarlane, Nodwell, Jones, Gibbon, Long Holmes, Sommers, Johnston, Houghton, Riedel, Lasangue, Perry, Alberts, Howe, Lester, Lovett, Clements, Dibblee, and many more families.
Sherrill Chown has taken the roads leading to Collina in Kings County and written about the families who lived on them in the days of yesteryear and today. She compiled her discoveries in the book, "Facial Expressions of Home."
Reading "Facial Expressions of Home," you can travel along the Gibbon Mountain, Pearsonville, Collina, Watson, Upper Springfield, Snider, Lester and the New Road and visit with the families that called this area home.
BOOK # 8216 $59.95 plus $10.00 shipping within North America. Signed copy - published in 1993 - 290 pages - shows some minor markings in interior by former owner. An out of print book.
Payment is accepted by credit card online through PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/ (My account rmcusack@nbnet.nb.ca) or cheque, or Canadian or International money order. If you have any questions, contact Ruby by email rmcusack@nbnet.nb.ca
Meet the people who lived and still live along the roads that lead to Collina
My grandmother spent many of her evening hours sewing quilt blocks. She called this piecing quilts. As soon as my brother wore out a shirt or I outgrew a dress, it was recycled into these quilt blocks. Mind you, the word recycled was not around in those years.
Once this task was completed, Gram would set up her wooden quilt frames in the bedroom over the kitchen. The quilt top, batting and backing were sewn with string into these frames. She then began the serious work of drawing lines with a yard stick and tracing around cardboard cutouts. Next came hours of stitching along these penciled patterns.
Her quilts were of many designs: log cabin, star of the east, patchwork, and my favourite, the Dresden plate. As I sat and watched Gram quilting the Dresden plate pattern, I would visualize a maze of roads all starting at a central spot on each block, and fanning out in all directions to meet with more roads at the next village on another quilt block.
Still today, when I look at old maps, I think of Gram's quilts.
Sherrill Chown has taken the roads leading to Collina in Kings County and written about the families who lived on them in the days of yesteryear and today. She compiled her discoveries in the book, "Facial Expressions of Home."
Reading "Facial Expressions of Home," you can travel along the Gibbon Mountain, Pearsonville, Collina, Watson, Upper Springfield, Snider, Lester and the New Road and visit with the families that called this area home.
This book of 288 pages is generously enhanced with many photographs of the residents. Reference copies of "Facial Expressions of Home" are at the Kings County Museum in Hampton and at the Sussex Library and other research institutions.
Sherrill has gathered much information on the families of the Collina area.
Payment is accepted by credit card online through PayPal at https://www.paypal.com/ (My account rmcusack@nbnet.nb.ca) or cheque, or Canadian or International money order. If you have any questions, contact Ruby by email rmcusack@nbnet.nb.ca