Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Brand new book from New York History Review Press


What happened on a normal day to a normal young woman in 1891? Step inside the world of 25-year-old Viola Coolbaugh as she lives her life in rural Schuyler County.

Viola writes of the happenings in Altay, New York - her housework, baking pastries for her father's store, terrible sicknesses, working at the basket factory, and making ice cream with hailstones.

To see this book and more, please visit our website.

This publication is fourth in New York History Review's
Learning From History series of printed primary source material.

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