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Quarry Books

 

Quarry Books is a series of chapbooks intended to reclaim Vermonters who time has buried less than overlooked. The past may not make itself known to us until we have caught up with it, despite the efforts of the archaeologists and historians. It may take a word, a shout in the street, rustlings of one kind or another - the collisions of deja vu - to bring it back. The already-heard, as it were, that reaches us like an echo.

 

The Education of
 Edwin James 
 

Robert Buckeye  

Quarry Books No.2

Winter 2008  

$10

Edwin James was born in Weybridge, VT in 1797, the youngest of twelve children, and walks five miles from his home to classes at Middlebury College, where he graduates in 1816. He studies natural history under Frederick Hall...