Chetkowski, Emily, — Amasa Walker's Splendid Garment.

Farmington, ME, Heritage Pub Inc., (1996). VG lg sz PB. Amasa Walker was born in 1799 in Muddy Brook, CT, and he became a brilliant scholar and teacher. This story is adapted from a. speech that Amasa gave in the 1850s when getting a new coat meant stepping into a store and buying it, not making it as when he was a boy.