Our Vanishing Landscape Author:Eric Sloane Eric Sloane, whose home is a 204 year old farmhouse in Washington, Connecticut, has been a devoted student of 'our vanishing landscape' for nearly fifteen years - ever since he discovered a number quaint old tools and discarded farm implements. Impressed by the artistry and sturdy realism of pioneer builders, he began to explore, study, compare... more » , and to assemble all the fact he could about the "American way of life" as it was lived in the days when the settlers had little more than strength, endurance, and inexhaustible resourcefulness to pit against their surroundings. And, as he studied, he used his artist's pen, vitalized by a very human feeling for the scores of thousands of anonymous builders whose highly individual efforts nevertheless merged to produce the unique democratic integrity which is revealed in the pages of this book and in the entire history of the nation.« less