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If you look at an atlas of the United States, one published around, say , 1940, there is, in the state of Indiana, north of New Castle and east of the Epileptic Village, a small town called Mooreland. In 1940 the population of Mooreland was about three hundred people; in 1950 the population was three hundred, and in 1960, 1970, and 1980, and so on. The book that follows is about a child from Mooreland, Indiana, written by one of the three hundred. It's a memoir, and a sigh of gratitude, a way of returning. I no longer live there; I can't speak for the town or its people as they are now. Someone has taken my place. Whoever she is, her stories are her own (taken in part from the prologue).

I went across the street and bent over the sleeping woman. The furtive odour of stale wine, worn clothes, rose to my nostrils . . . Suddenly she stirred. She lifted her head. The features were aquiline and proud, the eyes, once large, were now sunken, and the straggling grey hair fell in strands to her shoulders. She must have travelled from some distance, for she had two baskets beside her containing bread and wine, and yet a further woollen shawl. Once again I was seized with that sense of recognition, that link with the past which could not be explained. Even the hand that, warm despite the cold air, held on to mine in gratitude awakened an involuntary, reluctant response. She stared at me. Her lips moved. I turned. I think I ran.

Hailstones and Halibut Bones: Adventures in Color by Mary O'Neill, Doubleday Company, Leonard Weisgard. Hardcover Published in 1961 by Doubleday Company. Second Edition. ISBN 0616071388. EAN 9780616071380. MPN 61607138. This is the 1961 Yellow and Brown Hardcover Printing by Doubleday 2nd Edition 64 Pages Cover Art as Shown ONLY. It is not every other version of this book and/or other books. Limited Collector's Edition. In English.

The First European settlers to the island that is now called Manhattan lived in crude shelters. But gradually the village of New Amsterdam developed, and by 1660 it had three hundred buildings, and over fifteen hundred people and it was still growing. Now Caldecott-winner Peter Spier brings this thriving little metropolis alive for young readers.. He takes them through the bustling streets, points out the schoolhouse and the market place, the shipyards and the sawmill. He introduces them to the local residents- the glass blower, the smithy, the carpenter, the miller. And he tells them the legend of Crazy Annie Bogardus, a lonely old woman with an uncanny vision of things to come. With its wonderful illustrations and its touch of good humor, The Legend of New Amsterdam is a charming and colorfully detailed portrait of city life on Manhattan island over three hundred years ago.