The Housatonic Puritan River Author:Chard Powers Smith Part of The Rivers of America series, The Housatonic provides a detailed scrutiny of the 115 miles of the Housatonic, from the Massachusetts headwaters to the Connecticut tidewaters. The result is much small beer along with long draughts of the historical, cultural, economic and political changing scene. The river, its valley and the people in a... more »ll their eras of evolution, the peaks and bottoms of its long story, make fascinating- if partisan- reading. There is much that is picturesque and individual, from the tribes of Indians, under Waramaug, to the heights of the literary (Hawthorne, Melville, Holmes, Fanny Kemble, etc.) coterie; there is much that is important in this region's influence; there is a full quota of anecdote, individual stories and sectional material. Edited by Hervey Allen.« less