Plainsboro - Hart, William

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Résumé :
In the mid-twentieth century, Plainsboro was a quiet farm village with more cows than people. Today, it is a community of more than twenty thousand residents, beautiful homes, and thriving businesses. With nearly two hundred vintage photographs, Plainsboro takes the reader back to a simpler time and provides an opportunity to see life as it once was in this quaint agricultural town. With this volume, spanning a period from the late 1800s to the early 1970s, readers will meet the town's founding fathers, explore old dirt pathways that are today's tree-lined streets, and view the original structures of the village. Included are exciting and unexpected photographs of local research and experiments, such as hovercraft, a fusion plant, and a nuclear reactor; the famous Walker-Gordon Dairy; and the Rotolactor, a giant merry-go-round that could milk fifty cows at a time. Also featured is Plainsboro's most famous citizen, the very first Elsie the Cow, who lived at the Walker-Gordon farm. Plainsboro captures the town's history from its early, unassuming potato farms to the astounding government research conducted here just decades ago.

Biographie:
William Hart has devoted 35 years of his life to the social work profession, with a focus on child protection, court advocacy, family counselling, and adoption. He has previously authored three books, one of which is his autobiography detailing much of the challenges, and rewards of the social work profession. Hart is a former broadcaster and pastor. Currently he provides pastoral counselling services to affiliated church organizations. William expresses how joy is brought into his life through his relationship with God, his wife Elizabeth, his children and grandchildren and his close and dear friends. William and Elizabeth live in Dauphin, Manitoba.