Hathaway, Michael R., — Everything Happened around the Switchboard.

Conway, NH, Reflections Pubs, (1996). VG lg sz PB. Signed & inscribed by author. A remarkable memoir of Hathaway's family's 30 yr involvement with the Bryant Telephone Company. infused with unforgettable humor, delightful stories, and significant historical details. Eventually the telephone company in Bryant Pond became the only operating crank phone system remaining in the U.S. But his family never claimed to be more than a Maine family living simply and frugally among their neighbors and friends around the switchboard where so many of life's adventures took place. Laid in publisher brochure about the telephone company that moved into Hathaway's living room when he was 8 yrs old. Beautiful copy.