First settled in 1631; Berwick is the ninth-oldest town in Maine. Its unique location on the border of Maine and New Hampshire has served as one of the most popular gateways between the two states for centuries. Berwick was home to Gen. John Sullivan; a military officer in the Revolutionary War; and James Sullivan; the seventh governor of Massachusetts. Berwick was also the site of the countrys first sawmill; powered by the Salmon Falls River. In the 1800s; sawmills gave way to cotton mills; all which continued to depend on the river for their livelihood. In 1935; Berwick became the headquarters of Prime Tanning; which grew to be the countrys most dominant leather tannery. Today; Berwick is shifting its focus back to the river; not as a means to support factory life; but rather as a place to gather and engage in community activities. Berwick traces the history of a town that has overcome economic hardship and looks to continued revitalization in the future.
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful. Excellent analysisBy LinaYoungs music is difficult to obtain because of the marketing strategy he has followed for much of his career. It is possible to find a few tracks of his music by searching on the website. Also available is the Arditti String Quartet CD with his Five Small Pieces for String Quartet...What this book does is place the music in context and place Young on a pedestal that he may or may not deserve. My one objection to Grimshaws study is that it makes only a limited attempt to broaden the audience for Youngs work. Mixing his musical analysis with the biographical details is an organizational approach that does little to introduce Youngs work to a wider base of fans.Some of the other customer reviews already posted are hilarious. However; this book will serve to cement Youngs place in the history of minimalist composers and; as far as I can forsee; this book will only increase interest in Youngs autobiography; if it ever emerges. The bottom line is that this book is worth reading if you are interested in modern music history. I highly recommend it.7 of 13 people found the following review helpful. La Monte Wo bist Du?By scarecrowI recall "Winterbranch" an accompaniment La Monte Young did for the Merce Cunningham Dance Co. entitled "One Sound"; He attached a contact microphone to a cymbal and dragged it through an alley in New York City; All was gloriously recorded; the piece itself;quite serious is lit only with flashlights; the stage being for-the-most-part- dark; the "Light" (an important component in La Montes work)(Zazeelas) is let in only in fragments;Makes a great piece of simply electronic music. . .This is a very readable account of La Montes neglected work in Just Intonation;Ideology;how the two(2) come together and how it applies to our own apprehensions;intensities; experiences with and (In) Sound.Sound we have always thought is something simply shaped and constructed; put into the patterns of objects(Things) for marketing sale; But like Avant-Garde Jazz the Minimalist cause has taught us(Them) different;This is the first we read of Marian Zazeela;her work also with Young making pathways to possibilities afforded the Western artist---through and (IN) Asian culture; where none; where many have feared to thread-at least not in an orthodox wat; Would you become a Zen Buddhist to further the integrity of your music; To write it Everyday?or adopt Mormon ideology to write Just Intonation Within it?-----Zazeela has been a wonderful collaborator in all this;where interviews seem to become seemless excursions of answers; You never know where one stops and another begins; and this book makes no shortage of her;She does the Lights for giant projects. . . Often we see the Pink-Purple gradations of Light. . .Grimshaw lived with them both;and learned that they also do laundry like everyone else; and did it; for them once;(or was it twice)He had access on the upper floors where they live to the files; recordings;notes; works; compositions;the Lot of It dating as far back as Bern Idaho;Youngs early Mormon Days; and a life in poverty. . .We cant think of Young without a context;American music for one; whatever that means today--- has lacked certain dimensions of spirituality; it never came from Europe; for things there were always chocked-filled with blockages;opaque paradigms Wars; fascism and Futurist Manifestos;The minimalism in music that Young and others began roughly around 1959 was largely responsible for putting back the Spirit into things;manners of thinking-- OK; we got it; (the Spirit) from Broadway and Jazz;or did we? there is always some kinda Spirit there. But one more attached to the Cashbox.(for certain strains of Jazz; ( and All of Broadway) . .Not that the Minimal cause did not succumb to corruption; There is a Dollar Sign--$$ attached to all serious music; at some dimension; at some point in $$space and Time. . . .but thats quite different; minimalism does have its more negative ends; I mean sitting for hours in one place trying to find the Fifth partial in a drone; is not always the path to illumination;Not for all of us; What has been missed; and this book certainly misses it; is the social engineering required to make more people take pleasure /illumination/find vision; and sense of existence in what Zazeela and Young are trying to do; We gotta catch up in that aspect of educating the masses to this music;. . . Unless one simply desires this music to remain access to a select few. ./ elite who frequent the multi-million dollar New York Galleries; as its current state. . .This is a well researched book;much of the material never published prior; on this most important sound-timbral"shaman" of minimal just-intonation cause.La Monte went full tilt; doing everything possible within his adopted language of just tunings; As others if we dare compare as Partch; Harrison; Johnston; to me sortta stopped at places for too long a time;perhaps the gestation was too long to gaze backwards; and to make inroads into academia; that were not always necessary. Young braved the real. . continued on "One Sound" for years. . . . Youngs greatest aspect of work;has been the seamless longevity of his life- of the odyssey;devoted to Sound; its place and its structure;where it emanates from and how it proceeds; what supports it;overtones; cascading in space; in stasis; in motions we need a lifetime to detect; or a few minutes;sounds "behavior" and the proximity to it;our proximity to it--- well you might say all composers have done this; But Id argue; Young and Zazeela have drawn us Closer to the central-Whatever of the mysteries;unknown-ness-es of Sound itself;This is the fundamental extremity of purpose; of ideology you feel in the discourse of space and time; nothing is ever compromised in his music; Young and Zazeela have only been limited by the physical space itself;and amplitude-(what the human ear can hear) and funding; whenever it has dried up;You get things herein; This music(Do we still label it music; or merely proportions; shapes in space) calculated vibrations;intensities; attractions; weather fronts of timbre;swirls; and pools of partials; mixing ; meshing; in combinatorials;arrays and configurations; not all of us can hear; Not today; perhaps tomorrow; never seen prior; like a complete list of works; and recordings; and copious references;The book divides into a chronologic of their lives;well Youngs first;from the early 1959-1961 works (from the title itself; "Draw a Straight Line and Follow it" was one of these early "Compositions; from 1960-61; Chapter 2; "Getting inside the Sound"; We all need to do this to comprehend what a sound does to us; how it speaks to an inner spirit; and you can trace it to more chem-biologic dimensions; within the human body;#3 is "Ideology of the Drone"this explores the more mystical aspects of what the music can do through a set of ideology principles; this usually drawn from a mantra of Asian values mixed surreptitiously with Youngs ongoing affinity with his Mormon Roots; #4 "Space Explorations"" Telos and Stasis in the Dream House"; the "Dream House" is the constructed space-dimensions where events are given in New York City; and has Zazeela s work discussed and the collaborations; again sound alone is meaningless without its implications being tested through the very dimensions it seems to imply; endless space; #5; captures the primary piano piece; "Well-Tuned Piano";"Space Explorations Part 2; Mormon Cosmology and the Well-Tuned Piano"; then Chapter ^ "After Telelogy; what they are doing today;. . . sound with continue. . .4 of 7 people found the following review helpful. An Entlightening Window Into the Life of a Musical IconBy AlfieGrimshaws first-hand look at the life and work of Young is a revealing account of a man who goes to great lengths to remain at arms length (sometimes further) from the general public. The section on The Dream House gives as complete an account of the place I had only ever heard mentioned; and I was greatful for the light it shed. Other information on the influence Young received from Pandit Pran Nath as well as other Eastern influences shed new light on an artist who has successfully remained in the background for so much of his career. The book is a must read for anyone with an interest in current music avant garde.
