title: The Last Village Smithy: Memories of a Small Town In the New England Hills
author:  Ray Glabach 
description: I've lost count of the number of readers who have told me how my book has brought back memories of their own about growing up in a mid-20th century environment. It's wonderful to bring so many smiles to so many faces. Younger readers too have thanked me for painting a picture in their minds of how their parents and grandparents lived in the years before TV, iPads, and cell phones... in some cases, before electricity and telephones were common.
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  # Mrs. Amworth
  
  
  ### E. F. Benson
  
  
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  The village of Maxley, where, last summer and autumn, these
  
  
  strange events took place, lies on a heathery and pine-clad upland of
  
  
  Sussex. In all England you could not find a sweeter and saner
  
  
  situation. Should the wind blow from the south, it comes laden with
  
  
  the spices of the sea; to the east high downs protect it from the
  
  
  inclemencies of March; and from the west and north the breezes which
  
  
  reach it travel over miles of aromatic forest and heather. The village
  
  
  itself is insignificant enough in point of population, but rich in
  
  
  amenities and beauty. Half-way down the single street, with its broad
  
  
  road and spacious areas of grass on each side, stands the little
  
  
  Norman Church and the antique graveyard long disused: for the rest
  
  
  there are a dozen small, sedate Georgian houses