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The Heart Strangely Warmed: The Chautauqua and Methodist Campgrounds at Plainville, Connecticut

by Arthur K. Pope

126 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); black and white images; catalogue #06-0064; ISBN 1-4120-8309-5; US$17.75, C$20.41, EUR14.58, £10.21

This book uses the present site known today as the Plainville Camp Ground Association in Connecticut to conjure up the past in order to try to begin to understand the great American religious and social movements of Methodism and Chautauqua.

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The great American Social movements of Methodism and Chautauqua enabled Americans to educate and revitalize themselves, allowing them to take courage in their 19th century lives to face the 20th century with the utmost intelligence, reverence, and resolve. These movements have shaped our society in other ways as well. The earliest ones were intended as religious affairs, but from the very beginning they also offered a rare chance to escape the day-to-day routine of work and consider the meaning and course of one's life. For city dwellers, the camp meeting offered a chance to escape to Nature. The sense of retreat to a place set apart for refreshment and renewal fed the camp meetings and Chautauquas into more educational but less strictly religious pursuits and then into some of the first resort communities...Plainville's tiny cottages represent a building type that was invented at camp meeting grounds, but quickly became a model for vacation and resort cottages across the country.

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During his lifetime Arthur Pope has enjoyed long careers in the Congregational Ministry and his avocations of historic preservation, antiques, social justice and journalism. He and his wife Esther reside in Connecticut and enjoy spending time at their Simsbury Church Cottage at Forestville.

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