This collection of primary documents examines the evolution of concern about environmental degradation, pollution, and resource conservation in America from the colonial period the present. Documents include the writings of naturalists, conservationists, scientists, philosophers, lawyers, judges, politicians, sociologists, artists and poets, as well as from government reports, federal, state, and local legislation, and court cases. --from publisher...

"As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic. In addition to bank robbers--generally the dumbest criminals--Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys...

The collection consists of two blueprint architectural plans of the Crocker Tavern, located on Old King's Highway in Barnstable, Massachusetts, diagonally across the street from the Sturgis Library, and two letters pertaining to the history of the Tavern.