| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Pastkeepers in a Small Place: Five Centuries in Deerfield, Massachusetts. By Michael C. Batinski. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. xviii, 277 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 1-55849-455-3. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 1-55849-461-8.)

Deerfield, Massachusetts, was drawn into the national consciousness when French and Native Americans attacked the village in the early morning of February 29, 1704. The event was an episode in Queen Anne's War, but the news of nearly 50 residents killed and 112 more taken captive gave the tiny village a significance akin to Pearl Harbor or New York City's Twin Towers. Like the families who experienced those modern tragedies, Deerfield residents promised never to forget. But, as Michael C. Batinski demonstrates, 1704 was just one of many events residents have kept strong in their memories. In this impressively researched study, Batinski draws on a wealth of local sources to show how Deerfield residents cultivated a "connection between past and present," even when the dramatic events of 1704 faded into the banality of everyday existence (p. 7).

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