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100	1		_aBartlett, Frederick Orin, _d1876-1945
245	1	0	_aNew lives for old
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-08-15
505	0		_aA new beginning -- My neighbors -- Cold facts -- A town asleep -- Stirring things up -- A game worth playing -- The pioneers -- The new way -- Spring -- Results -- A great day -- New ventures -- Getting together -- Finding ourselves -- The goose hangs high.
508			_aEmmanuel Ackerman, David E. Brown, Joyce Wilson, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"New lives for old" by Frederick Orin Bartlett is a novel written in the early 20th century. It follows a city-bred narrator, Billy Carleton, and his wife Ruth as they buy a neglected New England farm and set out to restore both their homestead and the spirit of the surrounding town. The story contrasts immigrant enterprise with native stagnation and moves toward a community‑wide effort to revive local agriculture and pride. The opening of the novel shows Billy and Ruth searching the countryside, joyfully choosing a rundown, centuries-old farmhouse and fifty acres, and fixing it up with local labor that proves frustratingly idle. Billy contrasts these neighbors—Seth, Jim, and Josh—with an industrious Italian family led by Tony and the prosperous farmer Giuseppe Dardoni, whose well-run “estate” uses every acre wisely. A cheerful housewarming introduces the townsfolk, while a shockingly high store bill and a candid talk with the storekeeper, Moulton, reveal why the village struggles: poor production, heavy credit, and dependence on patent medicines. After seeing Dardoni’s success and loaning money to a neighbor trapped by debt, Billy resolves to “wake up” the town, sparring with the cautious minister and then launching a practical plan: a broad civic club, the Pioneers, funded with prize money to reward real results in fields, orchards, and homes—culminating in a rousing first meeting that packs the hall. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cBoston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1913
653			_aNew England -- Fiction
653			_aVillages -- Fiction
653			_aCountry life -- Fiction
653			_aFarmers -- Fiction
653			_aAgriculture, Cooperative -- Fiction
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/newlivesforold00bartiala
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76684
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