One Man's Family: Growing Up in Peterborough & Other Stories

These essaysor as Sydney Williams calls them: musingsare evocative of a time and a placeof growing up in a New Hampshire village in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sydney Williams was the second of nine children whose parents were sculptors and who was raised on a small farm, with horses, goats and chickensan unconventional life in an unconventional place, but during a conventional time. They include memories of his parents and their families, of books and of skiing. While they are personal...