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title: "The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home Paperback – January 17, 2007"
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# The Place You Love Is Gone: Progress Hits Home Paperback – January 17, 2007

**Brand:** melissa holbrook pierson
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## Customer Reviews

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    An homage to places we love
  

*by W***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2007*

Perhaps it is because I am originally from Akron, Ohio, one of the places where fellow native Pierson lovingly writes about with clarity and sorrow. Or perhaps it is just because I love well-written books about landscapes and places. Regardless, this book is still resonating with me several months after reading it. Pierson weaves in her own memoir of the places she has known and lived in her life with their history and quotes from other authors. Along the way she makes the point that we take our landscapes and special buildings for granted until it is too late and they have been replaced by strip malls and a more homogenous American background.For anyone who has ridden their bikes around their childhood neighborhoods or have known each house, each bush and tree, or corner store or the threads of roads and hills which form our memories of place, this book will have great meaning. You will be taken to your home place, wherever that may be, and you will see our vanishing American landscape with greater appreciation. Pierson's lucid, introspective prose is a pleasure to read.

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    Interesting but overwritten in places
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2006*

I enjoyed this book as I am a lover of the history of places and like to know  how a village,town or cityscape came about.I felt a connection to the book because of previous work assignments in a dead end Ohio town , being able to see Hoboken from my office and owning a home in Ulster County, not far from the  Catskills and only a short hop from Kingston.For me the only disappointments were the overwrought metaphysical language Pierson used in the first chapter in describing Akron and the lack of detail on Kingston, the proposed third chapter.The third chapter is strange in this way in that Pierson is discussing the barbaric approach that New York City used to appropriate clean water supplies ,although the chapter title is about Kingston, she only spends a handful of pages talking about Kingston.These are minor quibbles ,the work done in the third chapter captured the current shape of the county and how it was irrevocably changed by the reservoirs which replaced the drowned villages.

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    Five Stars
  

*by J***. on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2015*

Pierson's done it again.. Wonderful

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