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| Dedication of the Bridgton Civil War Monument, July 21, 1910 |
The Voices of Pondicherry Book Series
by Caroline D. Grimm
Volume One: ''Wild Sweeps the Wind''
SOUTH BRIDGTON, Maine (1857) - Phebe Beach was the Scarlet O'Hara of her time, a real firecracker of a woman who was not only highly intelligent, but also way ahead of her time. A teacher, a mother, a sister, a friend. She shared her frustrations in a diary she began writing that year.
Reading this book you will get the sense that she could be a role model for young women today.
Phebe Beach, a young woman from Bridgton, Maine was coming of age, beset by the constraints of society that expected her to marry and become in her words "a stocking darner and a baby manufacturer." She shared her frustrations in a diary she began writing that year. Her lively, lighthearted descriptions of annoying suitors, girlish rivalries, and social gatherings soon gave way to other more tragic happenings as the nation hurtled into civil war.
This is a wonderful book detailing not only life in a small New England town in the mid-19th century but a hard look at the tragedy and triumph of simple folks enduring extraordinary hardships during a time that nearly destroyed, what was to become, the greatest nation on earth.
Available for purchase at AMAZON.COM and Bridgton Books
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