Author of Father of the Man Dr. Peter Colman

This brief resume of the salubrious historic ‘outcroppings’ of the Colman family history in New England could easily be dismissed, ignored or judged to be unbearably provincial and irrelevant to the current scheme of events which carry men and women, and their unmoored offspring, through the rugged, unchartered wilderness which the twenty-first century calls modernity. But sometimes the opaque windows of the past, which hide the shadows and reverberate with the friendly sounds of a former generation’s often unbearable, often hilarious collective past, constitute perhaps the only legitimate lens through which we (as readers and critics) are able to make sense of the obscurity and complexity of our own frantic, fragmented lives.
If anthropologists (one of the more prominent and revered among whom is Edward T. Hall) are correct when they tell us that ‘the advantage of studying so-called foreign (or, one might add, older cultures), is that such inquiry enables the inquirer to better understand his or her own culture,’ then we would do well to eagerly and earnestly probe the complex, but incomparably colorful threads of our individual past. Do we not still hold the fragile, disparate threads of the living, evolving tapestry of our histories, and that of our children, in our own hands? Is this not enough reason to engage a creative, exploratory excursion into the pages of our not-so-distant past while the ink is still relatively wet and while the sounds and signature impressions are yet discernible?






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