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100 1 $aClark, Charles E.,$d1929-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50039086
245 14 $aThe meetinghouse tragedy :$ban episode in the life of a New England town /$cCharles E. Clark ; including illustrations by John W. Hatch.
260 $aHanover, NH :$bUniversity of New Hampshire :$bUniversity Press of New England,$c[1998], ©1998.
300 $axv, 152 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [127]-147) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tWilton --$g2.$tThe Meetinghouse --$g3.$tDisaster --$g4.$tThe Victims --$g5.$tThe Ballad --$g6.$tAfter the Fall --$gA.$tNews Accounts of the Wilton Disaster --$gB.$tCorrected Casualty List --$gC.$tThe Ballad --$gD.$tPossible Tunes --$gE.$tGlossary of Building Terms.
520 $aOne fine September day in 1773 the people of Wilton, New Hampshire, gathered to realize their dream, raising the frame of a brand new meetinghouse that would be the literal and symbolic center of this small farming community. But dream became nightmare when a huge center roof beam gave way, dropping fifty-three workers three stories to the ground and collapsing tons of trusswork, planks and joists, and metal tools on them. Five died. Forty-eight were injured, many seriously.
520 8 $aThe catastrophe might have been lost in history had Charles E. Clark not discovered an heirloom copy of an anonymous, forty-three-stanza ballad memorializing it. Sifting through clues from the ballad and from archival records, Clark pieces together the mystery to give a full picture of the disaster. His Meetinghouse Tragedy offers a fascinating glimpse into architectural history, popular and folk culture, religious traditions, and the ways communal memories are formed and then endure.
651 0 $aWilton (N.H. : Town)$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aChurch buildings$zNew Hampshire$zWilton (Town)$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aBuilding$xAccidents$zNew Hampshire$zWilton (Town)$xHistory$y18th century.
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