Hardscrabble could be any typical New England village. A place filled with common people living uncommon lives. The best of a disappearing breed called Yankees -- resolute, resilient, and resourceful folk who can be counted on in good times and in bad. The Hardscrabble Chronicles tell their stories, told by one of their own. A resident of Hardscrabble for thirty years, Laurie Bogart Morrow recounts events that brought her as a young bride to this rural outpost, her family's brisk acceptance into the quaint rhythms of the village, and her subsequent fall into a lifelong love affair with Hardscrabble and its no-nonsense, plain-speaking people, and its loyal and lovable dogs.