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Testimonies and Secrets: The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977

Testimonies and Secrets: The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977


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This compelling history is drawn from the papers of the Crouse-Eikle family, discovered in their ancestral home in Crousetown on Nova Scotia's South Shore. Millwright John Will Crouse (1844-1914) kept a meticulous diary spanning five decades. Reflective by nature, he recorded the challenges of work, pondered the intricacies of communal life, and wrote movingly of his personal and spiritual struggles. His daughter Elvira Crouse Eikle reported on village events for local newspapers, and her son, Harold Eikle (1912-1977), a gifted teacher and musician, wrote letters and family history. Harold's correspondence celebrated the social liberations of the 1930s and beyond, but also showed their limits in the suffering he experienced as a gay man in a heterosexual world. Using the family papers, other unpublished documents and oral history, Robert M. Mennel connects the experiences of the Crouse-Eikle family and their community to larger themes of social and cultural change in North America. A story of vivid personalities and episodes, by turns sad, conflicted, joyful, bitter, funny and reflective, Testimonies and Secrets will be read with pleasure by scholars and general readers alike.

Table of Contents:
Preface Illustrations Introduction Prologue: Lunenburg and "Crouse town Mills," 1753-1844 Chapter I: Young Man on the Rise Chapter II: John Will Crouse's Village, 1871-1884 Chapter III: The Family and Its World, 1880-1900 Chapter IV: John Will Crouse's Autumn-time, 1898-1914 Chapter V: Descendants-the Eikle Family and Harold, 1909-1943 Chapter VI: A Family's End, 1943-1977 Epilogue: Crousetown, 2007 Appendices Note on Sources Chapter Notes Acknowledgements Illustration Credits Index

About the Author :
Robert M. Mennel is emeritus professor of History at the University of New Hampshire.

Review :
'Testimonies and secrets. Plenty of both in this valuable and rare snapshot of life in rural Nova Scotia. An important contribution to the field of "life writing", accessible to general readers and local history buffs.' -- Gerald Hallowell Canadian Historical Review, vol 95:02:2014 'Mennel successfully turned the treasure trove of the Crouse/Eikle family papers into an exploration of past lives that is highly compelling.' -- Christine Moreland Active History February 2015


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781442647008
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Publisher Imprint: University of Toronto Press
  • Height: 238 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 25 mm
  • Weight: 620 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1442647000
  • Publisher Date: 03 Oct 2013
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Story of a Nova Scotia Family, 1844-1977
  • Width: 160 mm


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