The Mansfield Historical Society proudly announces that the fourth edition of Jennie Copeland’s definitive history about the rise and importance of the 19th century Massachusetts town of Mansfield, Every Day But Sunday (Blue Mustang Press, ISBN: 0975973711, $19.95, 320 pp.), is available in print to all generations interested in the preservation of Massachusetts' history.
Today’s Mansfield residents have become accustomed to living in a typically modern and active Boston suburb at the dawn of the 21st century. However, Jennie Copeland’s Every Day But Sunday takes the reader back to a different era in Mansfield. Originally published in 1936, this local classic provides a look at “Our Town” as it was in the industrial age of the 19th century. Miss Copeland’s book provides a detailed and readable account of Mansfield’s diverse industries, which included bog iron, coal mining, machine shops and foundries. She also tells of the many goods produced in the town, such as tacks and nails, straw bonnets, baskets, cranberries, cutlery, and jewelry. An entire chapter is dedicated to the importance of the railroad, which today’s reader will consider an interesting link to the Mansfield we know now.
Every Day But Sunday is not merely about Mansfield’s industry in days of old. It also provides fascinating descriptions of daily small-town life and the people within it in a bygone era. Miss Copeland portrays facets of life that were vital in Mansfield at the time, like choral societies, brass bands, lectures, military companies, horse racing, and torchlight parades.
The fourth edition of Every Day But Sunday is available from the Mansfield Historical Society (53 Rumford Avenue, Mansfield, MA), all major online book retailers, distributors: Ingram, Brodart, Baker & Taylor, or directly from Blue Mustang Press.
