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ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
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Fall, 2000
MICHAEL R. H. SWANSON Ph. D
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Paper III.                                                                                                                                                      Due Monday, December 4, 2000 

Length: c. 5 pp. Typed 

Sources:     Nylander, Our Own Snug Fireside 
                  Hansen, A Very Social Time 

Directions: 

As we have seen, communities of all kinds were central in the lives of New England men and women from colonial times throughout the 19th century. I would like to have you reflect on this in a thoughtful essay which 
 

    A. Identifies the various kinds of communities (families, neighbors, congregations, etc.) with which New England Men and Women identified, 

    B. Considers the various functions (social, emotional, practical, community control) which these communities filled, 

  C. The mechanisms by which these functions were fulfilled (including such things as gossip, as well as organized occasions of one sort or other) and 

    D. Compares this with your sense of community today. In your judgement what endures from those times, what has been lost, and in what
         ways are we better (or worse) off for the change.