Peacham Cemetery-sepia
by Priscilla Burgers
Title
Peacham Cemetery-sepia
Artist
Priscilla Burgers
Medium
Photograph - Photography/ Digital Art
Description
"Peacham Cemetery-sepia" was photographed on a beautiful autumn day in the picturesque town of Peacham, Vermont. This image is a composite with the bird and a woman in vintage clothing added. Painterly effects and textures were used to enhance the vintage look. This image is also available in color, without the woman and bird or vintage effects.
Peacham was settled in 1776. Early residents, who came to be known as Peachamites, traded butter, eggs, and wheat for goods which they could not make at home, and also relied on the production and sale of items such as whiskey and potash to help augment the relatively poor harvests. Almost from the beginning various trades and industries�as many as 30-35 at a given time�flourished. Lumbering, coopering, milling, butter making, tin ware, tanneries and leather goods provided goods for local consumption. From 1800 to 1830, sheep farming flourished as a more profitable endeavor than growing crops. In 1840, the town reached its greatest population of 1,443. From that date on, census numbers steadily declined. Farming methods changed, and dairy farming came to replace sheep. The larger more industrially advanced farms of the late 1800s could not support large families, and youth began to leave home. In the 20th century, the population continued to decline to a low in the mid-600s. Farming also became less common due to competition with larger dairy farms in the West, and many farms either consolidated or went under. Tourism became important during the 1900s as people opened their homes to visitors from the cities of the Atlantic seaboard, often derisively referred to as "flatlanders". With the advent of the railroad in Barnet and then motor vehicles, Peacham became a popular location for summer residents, some of whom were educators from Boston and New York. In the second half of the 20th century Peacham became a popular vacation spot and retirement home for prominent intellectuals and liberal thinkers � individuals like David Dellinger, William Lederer, Roman Jakobson, and the historian Shepard Clough all owned houses in town. Their interests and stimulation enhanced the cultural interests of the town.
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October 19th, 2013
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