"Five rural-Maine families describe their struggles against poverty in this report, which focuses on life on the slopes of Egypt Mountain in Oxford County. Interspersed with the families' stories are comments from author Carolyn Chute, who found…
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"For Ye Have The Poor With You Always": Dealing with Poverty In A New England Town, The Case of Bethel, Maine, 1806-1979 by Stanley Russell Howe -- 1
TheBethel Soldiers of '61 by C.F. Whitman [Part 27; reprinted fromOxford County…