Turns out that the man whose picture I used for my last post is the grandson of the Rev. George Gilbert, who was an Episcopal Priest in Connecticut.  Rev. Gilbert wrote a column for the Rural New-Yorker entitled ‘Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks’ for 25 years.

He was the subject of a 1939 Time article.  His life story was published by Harper and Bros. in 1940, Forty years a country parson.  I’ve added it to my Amazon wishlist.