Friday, August 21, 2020

Our feisty forebears …

… Travels in the Library: Fighting big government over those stills in the hills.

Hogeland's book painstakingly describes the fiercely independent men and women of western Pennsylvania; the small farmers, tradesmen, and merchants of the region wanted very much to protect their individual freedoms, and they had little use for the centralized powers of the federal government.

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