Willard, Charles Henry:

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MULTUMISSIMO IN PARVO 700 YEAR HISTORY OF THE WILLARD FAMILY HARTLAND'S EARLIEST HISTORY COL. OLIVER WILLARD FIRST SETTLER OF HARTLAND VERMONT SIXTY YEARS IN WIDE=OPEN WOOLY WEST TWENTYFIVE YEARS ON ... An idiosyncratic collection of poetry, observations, disjointed anecdotes, and religious argumentation written by a man who claims to be the descendant of a French Count. Willard describes it best in his own introduction:"The title, 'Multumissimo in Parvo,' which means the very most possible to be compressed into the smallest possible space is appropriate to this little book or booklet, since it brings together the most important events of a very eventful, strenuous life and leaves the reader to soar away, to any desired hight [sic], on the wings of imagination in search of a multitude of events not in print."In addition to entertainment, his goals are to argue that his ancestor, Col. Oliver Willard, was actually the first settler of Hartland, Vermont, and in the final pages to advertise his newly printed "Hebrew Gospel," the existence of which we can find no evidence. The author tells numerous tales about his life, including fortunes won and lost in mining, farming, sheep herding, and retail, tells jokes and humorous anecdotes, writes songs and poems, muses on Christianity and Judaism, provides a detailed family tree of the Willard family, and recounts many other observations from his life (such as witnessing the discovery of dinosaur bones in Tucson which he describes as "ma

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