The Edwards family has lived on a small farm on the side of Morgan Hill in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania for the past 150 years. This is the story of the growing-up years of one generation of the family during the 1930's and 1940's: the time of the Great Depression-World War II-before television-when radio was king and children filled their time through their own imaginations. The community in which they grew up was geographically isolated and socially cloistered but it suffered from many of the same problems and ills which are common to most times and locales. Darrell Edwards, using his own reminiscences and those of his siblings, has chronicled the story of their life with the happiness, the sadness, and the every-day routines that are parts of most peoples lives.

Bringing immigrants onstage as central players in the drama of rural capitalist transformation, Anne Kelly Knowles traces a community of Welsh immigrants to Jackson and Gallia counties in southern Ohio. After reconstructing the gradual process of community-building, Knowles focuses on the pivotal moment when the immigrants became involved with the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. Setting the southern Ohio Welsh in the context of Welsh immigration as a whole from 1795 to 1850, Knowles explores how these strict Calvinists responded to the moral dilemmas posed by leaving their native land and experiencing economic success in the United States. Knowles draws on a wide variety of sources, including obituaries and community histories, to reconstruct the personal histories of over 1,700 immigrants. The resulting account will find appreciative readers not only among historical geographers, but also among American economic historians and historians of religion.

Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.

A history of the Church of the Foursquare Gospel—tracing its growth, doctrine, organization, mission to the world, and even its difficulties.