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Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It. By Kimberly A. Jarvis. Durham: University of New Hampshire Press and Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2007. Revisiting New England: The Regionalism Series. xviii + 214 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $25.95.
A classic study of late Progressive Era conservation reform, Kimberly Jarvis' Franconia Notch and the Women Who Saved It recounts the successful efforts to save Franconia Notch from the timber industry's twentieth-century axe, the clear cut. Both the timber and tourist industries commodified the singularly beautiful Franconia Notch, but it was the Progressive-Era coalition of state groups that worked together to gather thousands of small donations to transform the former Profile Hotel, a tourist mecca, into a national war memorial park. . . .
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