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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467123365Author David BettencourtFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 299g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467116633Author Grace C. LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467115278Author Anne M. KozakFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 299g

Dramatic retellings of twenty true events, including the Moodus earthquake of 1791, the Norwalk train wreck of 1853, the Great Hurricane of 1938, the Great Hartford Circus Fire of 1944, the Mianus Bridge collapse of 1983, and many others.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146463Author Tom DresserFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467121200Author Robert McLaughlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 300g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738509365Author Sarah ChapinFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738562575Author Jerome M. CurleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738525303Author Frank J., Jr. BarrettPage Count 15Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467144162Author Virginia Shultz-CharetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 363g

In The Maine Poets, editor Wesley McNair has selected work by poets of the state from Longfellow to the present. Chosen for their appeal to the general reader, these poems honor the full vision and diversity of Maine's poets as they address life in Maine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892725151Author Lew DietzFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Down East Books,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 354g

Connecticut's War Governor is a biography of Jonathan Trumbull, who was governor from 1769 to 1784. Trumbull is one of the only Americans who served as governor of both a pre-Revolutionary colony and a post-Revolutionary state. Because of this he is...

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, tensions were high, but not everyone felt the same effects of British oppression. Connecticut newspapers took up the mantle to not just report the injustices, but actively convince and insight their...

This is a biography of William Williams, a merchant, a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. As the son of a minister, Williams studied theology and law at Harvard, and throughout his life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780872332522Author Francelia Mason ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Bauhan (William L.),U.S.Publisher Bauhan (William L.),U.S.

How did a sleepy New England fishing village become a gay mecca? In this dynamic history, Karen Christel Krahulik explains why Provincetown, Massachusetts alternately known as "Land's End," "Cape-tip," "Cape-end," and, to...

Myths and Mysteries of New Hampshire reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hovers over the Granite State. This book offers residents, travelers, history buffs, and ghost hunters a refreshingingly lively collection of stories...

From the story behind the first women voters to the last legal log drive in America, It Happened in Maine takes readers on a behind-the-scenes tour of some of the intriguing characters and episodes from the Pine Tree State's past. Read about the vision...

When Governor John Winthrop established the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, he commenced a tradition of public service in which his family would participate for almost a century. His son, John, Jr., and his grandsons, Fitz John and Wait Still, were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674492707Author James B HedgesFormat HardbackPage Count 397Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 744g

One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an...

Perhaps no other natural setting has as much literary, spiritual, and environmental significance for Americans as Walden Pond. Some 700,000 people visit the pond annually, and countless others journey to Walden in their mind, to contemplate the man who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938700118Author Jeremy D'EntremontFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Commonwealth EditionsPublisher Commonwealth EditionsWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933212968Author Diane RapaportFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Commonwealth EditionsPublisher Commonwealth EditionsWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Brothers William Donnell Crooker and Charles Crooker were among the most prominent mid-nineteenth-century shipbuilders in Bath, Maine, itself one of the most prominent shipbuilding cities in the world during that time. This colorful history of the...

From the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, Boston transformed from a city in freefall into a thriving metropolis, as modern glass skyscrapers sprouted up in the midst of iconic brick rowhouses. After decades of corruption and graft, a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609494759Author Jessie HaasFormat HardbackImprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 1070g

Maine Acadia National Park is one of the most visited national parks in the United States. It is an adventure seeker's paradise. Hiking, climbing, snowshoeing, back-country skiing, and ice-climbing are among the activities pursued there; as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608937134Author Randi MinetorFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Down East Books,U.S.Publisher Rowman & Littlefield

What is it about islands that make them ideal settings for ghost stories? Maybe it's because an island is the perfect place to dispose of a body or bury treasure, or maybe there's some truth to the lore than spirits cannot travel over water. Whatever the...

On October 25, 1836, the sidewheel steamer Royal Tar caught fire in Maine's Penobscot Bay. On board was a small circus menagerie returning to Boston from a summer-long tour of the Canadian Maritimes. Plagued by gale-force winds and rough seas, the usual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596292055Author Jan VoogdFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Witches and Warlocks of Massachusetts is a collection of legends and historical accounts about witches and warlocks from the Bay State. Organized by region, city and town, the book dozens of stories including the earliest Puritan accounts of 17th century...

A collection of memorial biographies of Farmington's late ministers presiding from 1645 to 1937. Author Mabel Hurlburt wrote in the foreword: "With no thought of attempted comparisons, each of the subjects of these biographical sketches projects his...

The town history of Groton, Connecticut 1600-1965.Book InformationISBN 9781493033171Author Carol KimballFormat PaperbackPage Count 62Imprint Globe Pequot PressPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 104g

Recounting briefly of the historical events of importance to the people of the town of Wallingford, CT from its founding in 1680 to the celebration of the tricentennial in 1970.Book InformationISBN 9781493033157Author Clarence E. HaleFormat PaperbackPage...

The sea chest with four hundred pounds sterling cleverly hidden in a secret compartment rested abandoned on the quay as the square-rigger put out from England in a freshening breeze. Young Richard Holt, the now penniless owner of the chest, was headed...

Capt. John Gallop; Master Mariner and Indian Trader, and his son, John, Jr.-the colorful careers of pioneers in our coastal-West Indian trader by Williams Haynes. Sponsored by the Gallup Family Association, Inc.Book InformationISBN 9781493033348Author...

New Englanders are always cursing. But a colorful profanity uttered by some stero-typically taciturn old Yankee is usually more humorous than menacing. Yet, true maledictions (the opposite of benedictions) have frequently been spoken on New England soil,...