Home-Nest Farm Chronicles

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Crispy Critter's Christmas Tree

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Josiah Volunteered

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Cradle to Nest
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Cradle to Nest
Leda & Arn Sturtevant

Price:  $41.50 Hardcover or $29.00 Paperback
Format: 
Choice of cover type; 474 pages & over 500 photographs
ISBN:  978-1-4251-5227-7
Pub. Date:  September, 2008

The authors recount how love survives a lifetime of strange and fascinating, hilarious and serious encounters with demons and angels warring over their souls from infancy to old age. (More Details)

Crispy Critter's Christmas Tree
Written by:  Sarah Robinson
Photographs by:  Arn & Leda Sturtevant

Price:  $19.00
Format: 
Paperback; 31 pages; 21 full-color photographs
ISBN:  1-4251-2990-0
Pub. Date:  November, 2007

A curious pony helps find the perfect Christmas tree.  Illustrated with color photos taken at Home-Nest Farm of a cast of family members and farm animals in their quest for a perfect Christmas tree.  (More Details)

Home-Nest Chronicles:
Ripe Berry Moon & Tales from Labrador
Leda & Arn Sturtevant

Price:  $34.00
Format: 
Hardcover; Dust Jacket; 498 pages; 176 Illustrations
ISBN:  0-9676814-0-5
Pub. Date:  December, 1999


Includes genealogical charts for:  Alden (Mayflower), Soule (Mayflower), Belyea (Boulier/Bulyea), Chandler, Estabrooks, Keith, Robinson, Smith, Sturtevant, Whitney, & Wing

A dramatic true account of the assimilation of two Native American Micmac women and their offspring into white culture.  This collection of stories tells about some very different people from the past whose once divergent paths met at Home-Nest Farm.  Stories of wars, scalpings, Indian captivity, ethnic cleansing, shipwrecks, financial failure, murder, adultery, orphaned and abandoned children, problems of racial assimilation:  many such dramatic tales of our family have been told and retold before the hearth of Home-Nest Farm.  But through it all, love triumphs, working things together for good, even turning the transitory sorrows into lasting joy.  Two grandparents now seek to preserve for future generations the tales and lessons they teach, committing to writing what previously has been largely oral tradition.  (More from the authors.)

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Josiah Volunteered
Edited by Arnold H. Sturtevant with Drawings by S. W. Hilton

Price:  $40.00
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Hardcover; Dust Jacket; 559 pages; 124 Illustrations; 55 Drawings by Maine Artist Seaverns Hilton
ISBN:  0-9676814-1-3
Pub. Date:  1977

Includes first hand account of the Civil War by Josiah H. Sturtevant, who enlisted in the 17th Maine, an infantry regiment, which fought in the battle of Fredericksburg.  He was promoted in the spring of 1863 from Corporal to 2nd Lieutenant and assigned to a black infantry regiment in Louisiana:  Company E, 8th Regiment Infantry, Corps d'Afrique -- (later called 80th Regiment, U.S. Colored Volunteer Infantry).

A collection of diaries, letters, poems and photographs of Josiah H. Sturtevant, his wife, Helen, and his four children spanning from the American Civil War through the late Victorian Era.  A family physically dissevered by circumstances of war (Civil), employment and sickness found spiritual unity through the written word.

"...skillful compilation of letters, diaries and photographs...brings us into intimate touch with the life and times of a Maine family...readers who are sensitive to the values of those who have gone before will be pleased.  A book to treasure, a true and poignant American Story." -- Maine History News  (More reader reviews.)

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