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The Last Undiscovered Place David K. Leff

The Last Undiscovered Place By David K. Leff

The Last Undiscovered Place by David K. Leff


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Offers a portrait of the author's adopted home of Collinsville, Connecticut, a village that looked perfectly ordinary until he fell prey to its rhythms and charm. The town taught him a new way of seeing his environment, and through this process he discovered what many Americans long for: a sense of community.

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The Last Undiscovered Place Summary

The Last Undiscovered Place by David K. Leff

With warmth and a keen eye for the nuances of history and place, David K. Leff offers this affectionate, insightful portrait of his adopted home of Collinsville, Connecticut, a village that looked perfectly ordinary until he fell prey to its rhythms and charm. The town taught him a new way of seeing his environment, and through this process he discovered what many Americans long for: a sense of community.

The Last Undiscovered Place Reviews

This is a kind of folk archeology that I love. In a nation now nearly catatonic from the ravages of suburbia, Leff does a fine job of recovering the lost memories, textures, rhythms, flavors, and feelings of authentic town life. - James Howard Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere [David Leff] moved to Collinsville in 1984 because it was only 16 miles west of Hartford yet fit his checklist. Walkable. Affordable. Good schools. Agreeably funky atmosphere. But over two decades, convenience turned to loyalty, and then to love. Leff earned community membership the hard way, chairing the historic district commission, restoring a Greek Revival house, even serving as a volunteer firefighter. This doubled vision has yielded a quietly intelligent guide to becoming 'native' to a place.... Defenders of the American sense of place can welcome, with pleasure and relief, an unusually authoritative defense of the charms of staying put. - Preservation Want an alternative to life on 'Paradise Drive'? Read David Leff's The Last Undiscovered Place, and find a new and inspiring way of seeing your environment. Set in Collinsville, Connecticut, Leff's book argues that human beings are deeply affected by their experience of landscape, and that local interaction matters. - Past Place

About David K. Leff

David K. Leff, author of numerous essays and stories for the Hartford Courant and other periodicals, is former Deputy Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.

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CIN0813926947G
9780813926940
0813926947
The Last Undiscovered Place by David K. Leff
Used - Good
Paperback
University of Virginia Press
20070829
264
N/A
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