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Author : Paul St. Germain
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467123633
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Cape Ann Granite written by Paul St. Germain and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of the granite industry on Cape Ann in Massachusetts.
Author : Paul St. Germain
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439652430
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Cape Ann Granite written by Paul St. Germain and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The granite industry began on Cape Ann with the first sale of a piece of Rockport granite, for use as a millstone, to a farmer in Newburyport in 1800. The industry would grow to include more than 60 quarries and operations around the cape, becoming the second-largest economic force in the area behind fishing. Hundreds were employed as quarrymen, stonecutters, paving cutters, and finishers. Cape Ann was particularly well fitted for the pursuit of granite as its rocky hills and shores afforded a comparatively inexhaustible source of supply, and its splendid shipping facilities gave the advantage of quick and economical transportation to market by sea and land. The industry eventually declined, and by 1930, most quarries had gone out of business because of labor strikes and low demand. Today, most of these quarries are filled with rainwater and springwater, and many are used as reservoirs for the surrounding communities.
Author : Martin E. Ross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692352885
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (528 download)
Download or read book Cape Ann Massachusetts written by Martin E. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is divided into two parts: Part I consists of 6 chapters dealing with physical geology using Cape Ann as the example. Part II consists of 10 chapters describing the geology at 10 localities on Cape Ann. The intended audience includes the lay person, geology students, and professional geologists.
Author : Kristian Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982555408
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (554 download)
Download or read book Artists of Cape Ann written by Kristian Davies and published by . This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical account of prominent artists from Cape Ann.
Author : John James Babson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 638 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann written by John James Babson and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Wellington Brayley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of the Granite Industry of New England written by Arthur Wellington Brayley and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heather Atwood
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493022369
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book In Cod We Trust written by Heather Atwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When people think of dock-side dining in Massachusetts they imagine buttery toasted lobster rolls, steaming bowls of creamy fish chowder, and alabaster-white slabs of baked cod piled with bread crumbs, but its rich and varied cuisine reflects all who have come to call these seaports home. Cultures––including, Sicilian, Portuguese, Finnish, and Irish––that fished and worked the granite quarries there a century ago were so tightly bound that generations have stayed and continue to leave their culinary mark on coastline. In Cod We Trust features over 175 recipes that celebrate the area’s unique place in the culinary world, and is a photographic journey for both people who love the area and those who hope to visit one day.
Author : Elyssa East
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416587187
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Dogtown written by Elyssa East and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The area known as Dogtown -- an isolated colonial ruin and surrounding 3,000-acre woodland in storied seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts -- has long exerted a powerful influence over artists, writers, eccentrics, and nature lovers. But its history is also woven through with tales of witches, supernatural sightings, pirates, former slaves, drifters, and the many dogs Revolutionary War widows kept for protection and for which the area was named. In 1984, a brutal murder took place there: a mentally disturbed local outcast crushed the skull of a beloved schoolteacher as she walked in the woods. Dogtown's peculiar atmosphere -- it is strewn with giant boulders and has been compared to Stonehenge -- and eerie past deepened the pall of this horrific event that continues to haunt Gloucester even today. In alternating chapters, Elyssa East interlaces the story of this grisly murder with the strange, dark history of this wilderness ghost town and explores the possibility that certain landscapes wield their own unique power. East knew nothing of Dogtown's bizarre past when she first became interested in the area. As an art student in the early 1990s, she fell in love with the celebrated Modernist painter Marsden Hartley's stark and arresting Dogtown landscapes. She also learned that in the 1930s, Dogtown saved Hartley from a paralyzing depression. Years later, struggling in her own life, East set out to find the mysterious setting that had changed Hartley's life, hoping that she too would find solace and renewal in Dogtown's odd beauty. Instead, she discovered a landscape steeped in intrigue and a community deeply ambivalent about the place: while many residents declare their passion for this profoundly affecting landscape, others avoid it out of a sense of foreboding. Throughout this richly braided first-person narrative, East brings Dogtown's enigmatic past to life. Losses sustained during the American Revolution dealt this once thriving community its final blow. Destitute war widows and former slaves took up shelter in its decaying homes until 1839, when the last inhabitant was taken to the poorhouse. He died seven days later. Dogtown has remained abandoned ever since, but continues to occupy many people's imaginations. In addition to Marsden Hartley, it inspired a Bible-thumping millionaire who carved the region's rocks with words to live by; the innovative and influential postmodernist poet Charles Olson, who based much of his epic Maximus Poems on Dogtown; an idiosyncratic octogenarian who vigilantly patrols the land to this day; and a murderer who claimed that the spirit of the woods called out to him. In luminous, insightful prose, Dogtown takes the reader into an unforgettable place brimming with tragedy, eccentricity, and fascinating lore, and examines the idea that some places can inspire both good and evil, poetry and murder.
Author : Jonathan Bayliss
Publisher : Drawbridge Press
ISBN 13 : 0983150419
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Gloucesterbook written by Jonathan Bayliss and published by Drawbridge Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complex and intellectually extensive novel is an anthropological discovery of the various personal and social dimensions that define an imaginative place on the East Coast, to which the West Coast protagonist adapts and subordinates his new life even as he assists several of their inhabitants in their polyphonic story. The benign helpfulness of this book's language - its precision and humor, its sheer competence and intelligent ambition - creates a unique landmark in fiction. This novel is part of Bayliss's series GLOUCESTERMAN. Each of the four novels may be enjoyed independently.
Author : Charles Giuliano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996171571
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Museum of Fine Arts Boston: 1870 To 2020 written by Charles Giuliano and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970 the Museum of Fine Arts commissioned a two-volume Centennial history by its trustee, Walter Muir Whitehill. That was a time of turmoil as then director Perry T. Rathbone was forced to resign resulting from the questionable acquisition of a portrait by Raphael later returned to Italy.Instability followed with the quick succession of acting director, Cornelius Vermeule, the ill-fated Merrill Rueppel, then Asiatic curator, Jan Fontein promoted from acting to full time director. Museum of Fine Arts Boston, 1870 to 2020: An Oral History is only the second publication chronicling 150 years of a great museum with aspects of its collection second to none. The book summarizes events of the first century with a vivid update of what has occurred since then.The fascinating story of a world-class museum is updated in the words of each of its directors from Perry T. Rathbone to Matthew Teitelbaum. There are also interviews with curators, trustees, art historians, administrators, and arts journalists.The founders were individuals of class and privilege who gave generously. The tone of Brahmin elitism changed by the 1950s as the museum expanded and become more costly to maintain. There was a search for new money and expansion of the board to include Jews and people of color. By the 1960s the museum drew broad criticism for its elitism and indifference to modern/ contemporary art and Boston's contemporary artists, including the Jewish Boston Expressionists. Charges of racism have accelerated in the past few years as they have for all cultural institutions. The MFA has been charged with a transition from the "Our Museum" of its founders to a "Museum for all the people of Boston" under current director Matthew Teitelbaum.As an observer and writer, Charles Giuliano is a consummate insider. In 1963 upon graduation from Brandeis University he worked for two and a half years as a conservation intern for the Egyptian Department. He later became one of Boston's most influential art critics covering the museum for a range of publications. This book is the culmination of that coverage since the 1960s.
Author : Jonathan Bayliss
Publisher : Drawbridge Press
ISBN 13 : 0983150451
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (831 download)
Download or read book Gloucestermas written by Jonathan Bayliss and published by Drawbridge Press. This book was released on 2013-11-14 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestermas is the culmination of Jonathan Bayliss’s masterwork, GLOUCESTERMAN, a tetralogy reviewers have compared to the fiction of Sterne, Melville, Joyce, Broch, and Musil. Like Gloucesterbook and Gloucestertide, this richly detailed, playful, and expansive novel is centered on the Atlantic Coast’s seaport “Dogtown” on “Cape Gloucester.” Rafe Opsimath and Caleb Karcist are now older, with new practical, social, and intellectual preoccupations in 1980s Dogtown. Woven into the narrative are the Cape Gloucester and Isle of Man of the 1920s, Dogtown legends and municipal affairs, the fate of the schooner Gloucesterman, and a Court of Love. Expanding the network of friends, spouses, and lovers, new central characters are intertwined in the sprawling web of ideas, history, geography, responsibility, experience, conversation, and love that make GLOUCESTERMAN unique in the world of literature. Gloucestermas may be enjoyed independently or alongside the previous novels in the GLOUCESTERMAN series, headed by Prologos and including Gloucesterbook and Gloucestertide.
Author : Paul St. Germain
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467120200
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Lighthouses and Lifesaving Stations on Cape Ann written by Paul St. Germain and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The maritime history of Cape Ann, on the northern coast of Massachusetts, is filled with stories of heroism, adventure, and human endeavor. The lighthouses and lifesaving stations surrounding Cape Ann since the late 18th century have served to protect and safeguard the area's mariners and major industries. Fishing, shipbuilding, and granite quarrying businesses all flourished under their watchful eyes. They provided artists with spectacular subject matter and attracted tourists from around the world to visit them. This book highlights the heroism and dedication of the lighthouse keepers and lifesaving surfmen who served. Cape Ann is famous for being the home of America's oldest seaport in Gloucester and America's most painted building, Motif No. 1, in Rockport.
Author : James Robert Pringle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts written by James Robert Pringle and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gurdon Saltonstall Worcester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780913634158
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Singing Flute written by Gurdon Saltonstall Worcester and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love, hate, the magic of music, and a "mad" dog draw Hilli, her bitter father, and his estranged brother toward a common understanding.
Author : Anna Solomon
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0349134464
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Leaving Lucy Pear written by Anna Solomon and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Stunning language, raw emotion and profound wisdom' Celeste Ng, author of Everything I Never Told You 'Solomon's strong prose and fleet pacing consistently provide the essential pleasures of a good story well told' Maggie Shipstead, The New York Times Book Review One night in 1917 Beatrice Haven creeps out of her uncle's house on Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the child as her own. A gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea has returned to her uncle's house, seeking a refuge from her unhappiness. But the rum-running manager of the local quarry inadvertently reunites her with Emma Murphy, the headstrong Irish Catholic woman who has been raising her abandoned child - now a bright, bold, cross-dressing girl named Lucy Pear, with secrets of her own...
Author : Jonathan Bayliss
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Gloucestertide written by Jonathan Bayliss and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary novel
Author : Barbara H. Erkkila
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780931474194
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Hammers on Stone written by Barbara H. Erkkila and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
