Thursday, March 19 2009
Darcy Purinton is a school counselor who lives in Vermont. While working on her Masters in Counseling she started to photograph and write about what she loves.
She has worked as a waitress, English teacher and as a journalist who has published articles in a variety of magazines including Bluegrass Unlimited. She plays the fiddle, loves to travel, ski and breed Old English Sheep dogs.
Dale Cahill has been a sailor, farmhand, electronic technician, equipment maintenance technician, a life guard, has run an aquatics facility and is both a father and a grandfather. He's worked at resorts and in factories, favors the outdoors and he loves skiing and photographing beautiful things. Dale also enjoys playing the guitar and Mandolin.
Tobacco Sheds of the Connecticut River Valley: Over 200 beautiful color photos provide a detailed look at a wide variety of tobacco sheds in the Connecticut River Valley. An engaging text delivers a unique look at tobacco sheds from a historical, personal, and an agricultural perspective through the changing seasons.
Readers will enjoy an overview of the tobacco industry from the farmer's perspective and tour the valley's rich agricultural history, using interviews and hands-on research to captured the essence of this special crop. Learn why it is still an important part of life for the region and how Yankee ingenuity married form and function to solve unique problems presented by fickle weather conditions. Further, the text explores the construction and unique features of tobacco sheds, and how some historic sheds have been transformed, given new life and new uses. This book will be treasured by everyone fascinated with farm architecture and rural New England life.
For more information visit their website at www.tobaccosheds.com.
