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Title: History should be so good
Review: I got into this book on a recommendation from woodworking author Jim Tolpin, but it is mostly not about woodworking.At the close of the 19th century George Sturt owned and operated a centuries old family Wheelwright shop that had served his part of rural England for nearly 200 years. This book is at once about how the shop operated, and the change that the industrial revolution brought.Sturt basically ran a small, rustic, rural, pre-industrial General Motors. If it moved on wheels, they built it or fixed it. But he was also a writer, conscious of the change that he was seeing, and determined to leave some artifact for the future of the details of the life in his shop. Where other authors provide glimpses of common life, Sturt here provides an intimate picture.
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