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"Voices from Early America" Author T. N. Pollio on the Sunbury Press Books Show

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What was life really like for most Americans in centuries past. T. N. Pollio brings to life the diaries, letters and personal memorabilia to paint that picture, in “Voices from Early America.” The writings and notes of our ancestors does not always portray what we think the early decades of the US was like. From these, we find that while our forebears lived in a different time with often more difficult circumstances, their emotions, their joys and sorrows, plus their achievements can be understood if we take that time. “Voices…” examines the lives and times of our fellow citizens from the Colonial Period to just before the Jazz Age.An historian living along the coast of Southern New England, T. N. Pollio is the author of two books on ancient and medieval jewelry—WorldCat lists these in nearly 900 academic libraries across the world. “Voices…” is Pollio’s debut work for Sunbury Press.

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What was life really like for most Americans in centuries past. T. N. Pollio brings to life the diaries, letters and personal memorabilia to paint that picture, in “Voices from Early America.” The writings and notes of our ancestors does not always portray what we think the early decades of the US was like. From these, we find that while our forebears lived in a different time with often more difficult circumstances, their emotions, their joys and sorrows, plus their achievements can be...

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