Dartmouth Authors

John W. Little '40, 100 Miles from Manhattan: A 1980's Guide to Hidden Real EstateOpportunities Three Hours (or less) from NewYork. Harper & Row, 1982. 248 pp. Designed for a specialized, though presumably sizable, readership: those New Yorkers for whom the Big Apple has gone sour but who also retain the considerable assets required to finance an escape to the allegedly sweeter environs of exurbia. Little's thesis: "If life in New York has been tough in the 1970s, it will be even tougher in the 1980s." His advice: Get out while the getting is good; beat your sagacious retreat by "buying a second home in a rural or resort area right now." Little's suggested fall-back areas include such beleaguered bastions of rurality as the Hamptons (and other South Fork towns), the "undiscovered" North Fork, the Berkshires (Taxachusetts, here they come!), Columbia County, the Catskills, the Poconos, and Cape May. Little describes each area in some detail, including the flora and fauna (both native and emigrant) that already inhabit it, the local amenities, price ranges of available properties, and sample real estate listings. He concluded with several chapters of advice on how to finance, how to buy, and how to sell real estate profitably.

Charles T. Morrissey '56, The Closing ofWindsor Prison: Vermont's Unique Experiencein Correctional Change and Historical Preservation. Vermont Department of Corrections, 1980. 43 pp. In shutting its dilapidated 166-year-old prison at Windsor on August 7, 1975, Vermont became "the only state in the nation to close its maximum security facility and operate a correctional system without a state prison." Almost equally remarkable, a scant two years later the imagination of historical preservationists and the skill of their architects had transformed the ancient granite building into Olde Windsor Village, a 75- apartment housing complex for the elderly. The story of this unique transformation is very much worth recording, Morrissey concludes, because it "conveys the hopeful suggestion that humankind can recycle its social attitudes as well as remodel its old buildings." A historian by profession, Morrissey is the newly appointed editor of Vermont Life.

George Reid Andrews '72, The AfroArgentines of Buenos Aires, 1800-1900. University of Wisconsin, 1980. 286 pp. In a 1778 Argentinian census, 30 per cent of the population of Buenos Aires was black. By 1887, official figures placed the black population at less than two per cent. This "riddle of the disappearance" is the subject of Andrews' book. While not denying traditional historical explanations - war, race intermingling, low birth and high mortality rates - Andrews uses new demographic evidence to show that far from disappearing, Afro-Argentines played key roles in Argentinian social, economic, and political life after the nation's independence. But they were systematically ignored, erased even from the pages of Argentinian history, as a result of the government's official policy of presenting Argentina to the rest of the world as the only "white" nation, except Uruguay, in South America.

A. Roger Ekirch '72, "Poor Carolina":Politics and Society in Colonial North Carolina, 1726-1776. University of North Carolina Press, 1981. 305 pp. An examination of why political life in mid-18th-century North Carolina lacked the stability which most of the other colonies enjoyed and became, in the words of an earlier historian, "a history of disasters, misrule, and oppressions; a more constant succession of grievance, than fell to the lot of any other colony." Among the reasons Ekirch advances for "poor Carolina's" colonial turbulence were its comparatively immature political institutions; uniquely inept, selfaggrandizing royal governors; an uncommonly factious, aggressive ruling class; and, above all, a backward, near-stagnant provincial economy.

Dick Hoefnagel, professor of maternal and child health, the Medical School, Incunabula in the Dartmouth College Library. Dartmouth College Library, 1980. 44 pp. A knowledgeable bibliophile and antiquarian, Dr. Hoefnagel has compiled this catalogue to serve as a guide to the "modest and representative collection of incunabula" in the College library. The catalogue describes and collates 149 books an 13 single leaves and fragments. It was printed by the Stinehour Press and Meridan Gravure Company.