Chesterville: The Village at the End of the Road
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In the period following the horrors and hardships of World War II there was a hardy group of citizens living in a small village known as Chesterville, a suburb of
The prohibition of the sale of alcoholic beverages had brought into being a new life style in big cities such as
In the afterglow of the past two wars the citizens of Chesterville were struggling to pull themselves up by their bootstraps economically speaking. Hard work in the fields and in the mills was a way of life. Deprivation of luxuries was a part of that way of life even before the crash of the stock market in 1929. From that day forward the economic struggle was intensified.
This volume lists and describes the residents of Chesterville during that period, citizens who had a profound effect on the author during his boyhood days. It speaks of the religious, social and political life of the citizens of the village.
Although the author of this book has traveled in time and miles far from his early life in the