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Excerpt from From the Hub, to the Hudson: With Sketches of Nature, History and Industry in North-Western Massachusetts
In the collection of materials for this little book I have been assisted by many friends; among whom are Messrs. Stevens of the Mansion House in Greenfield; and Rev. Robert Crawford, D. D., Nathaniel Hitchcock, Esq., and Dr. Charles Williams of Deerfield. Hitchcock's Geological Report, Holland's History of Western Massachusetts, Hoyt's Indian Wars, Barber's Historical Collections, and the various reports of Commissioners and Engineers upon the Hoosac Tunnel, have been of great service to me. The engravings of the Tunnel were executed from photographs by Messrs. Hurd & Ward of North Adams.
The book is built on these two maxims:
1. History begins at home.
2. It is better to see one town from all its hilltops than five hundred towns from the car windows.
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