New England towns are peculiarly rich in historical matter which yearly becomes of greater and greater interest, and no town has more of picturesque value than Greenfield. Here and hereabouts seems to have been the great battle ground between the English settlers and the Indians, who were loth to give up to the white man the beautiful valley of the Connecticut. For nearly a century<br>Greenfield was the frontier town of the region and the romance of its daily life is fascinating as well to one who reads for pleasure as to another who seeks for historic facts. Here was the hunting ground of the great Pocumtuck nation and it was at the "Fishing Falls" that Captain William Turner gave the death-blow to King Philip's career.<br><br>Judge Thompson has told the story of the town in two volumes replete with<br>historic interest and romance, volumes which appeal with special interest to all who love the true story of the struggles and triumphs of the forefathers in the early days of New England. The books will rank with the best work of Massachusetts' local historians, for painstaking research and the vivid picture they give of municipal development.<br><br>Greenfield has been called a model New England town and Judge Thompson has certainly written a model history of it. No New England town library should be without this history.