Amos Congdon:
Connecticut Yankee

We've all known people like Amos Congdon -- grandfathers, grandmothers, neighbors. They worked hard all their lives, spoke little but meant what they said. They worked the land as their fathers and father's fathers worked the land and carved their place out of a difficult terrain. Their past created this present and our children's future. They were Connecticut Yankees.

To some, people like Amos Congdon become in our mind's eye like some quaint fiction of a distant past, but Amos Congdon and your grandfather and neighbors were real and cherished. Sometimes it seems as if they are really just behind us -- seen from the tail of our eye, to be recaptured if we but whirl around quickly enough.

This is Amos Congdon's life.  Not his whole life, of course, for who can know the inner heart of any man. But this is a big part of his life -- his work and where he lived.