"Austin has indeed retrieved something astonishing: a town remembered in its detail, through its characters, and through the wisdom of those around him."
Philip Kennicott, Culture Critic,
The Washington Post

"This is a wonderful book."
David Hapgood, author of Monte Cassino

A Remarkable Time, A Remarkable Town

When penned by authors of passion and grace, memoirs lift their readers from the confines of their own lives into pasts made vivid through significant detail and memorable characters. Retrieving Times is such a memoir. . . .

Granville Austin came to live in Norwich, Vermont in 1932 at the age of five. Although he later traveled the world, writing two political histories of the constitution of India, the town of his boyhood remained in the center of his mind and his memories. . . .