Step back in time to the Turn Of The Twentieth century world of photographer and artist Glenduen Ladd, born in 1891. In this sterling volume, author Susan Zizza compiles over seventy images. Each image offers an intimate view of Ladd’s remote home at New England’s northern tip, vividly capturing the peace and optimism of her era through her lens and paintbrush.

These amazing pictures, along with related archives, bring to vibrant life the farmers, woodsmen, and tradespeople whose courage and strength of character brought civilization to the deep northern forests of New Hampshire and Vermont.

Turn Of The Twentieth also provides little-known-but-intriguing footnotes to this region’s history — the rescue of a Revolutionary soldier’s grave, and those of other early settlers in a Canadian border hamlet; the evangelical movement of the 1800s; tales of frontiersmen reminiscent of Daniel Boone and James Fenimore Cooper’s Hawkeye; and a peek at the grand hotels of the White Mountains.

With both camera and brush, Ladd has achieved the same result. Her images are powerful, a step back in time to an enchanted land — the “good old days” of the North Country.

“Susan Zizza has unearthed buried treasure in the photography of Glenduen Ladd, whose beautiful work compels interest in its own right, as well as a window into the most pivotal decades of North Country history. Turn of the Twentieth is both a skillful survey of this work and a moving portrait of the unusual woman behind the lens.”
—Richard Adams Carey
Author of Against The Tide: Fate of the
New England Fisherman

Full color, 82 pages, on high quality glossy stock, 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches. Available in both soft and hard cover.

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