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Book Synopsis New England's Mad & Mysterious Men by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Mad & Mysterious Men written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You've never met such wonderful nor wacky men as you'll be introduced to in this book. Mad Dog McGovern who was a coward, but during the last moments of his life became one of the greatest heroes who ever lived; Mike Martin, the greatest and most humorous highwayman of all time; Timothy Dexter, who insisted on watching his own funeral and struck his wife when she didn't cry - plus many more true stories of fascinating men, including Johnny Appleseed and Paul Bunyan.
Book Synopsis New England's Ancient Mysteries by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Ancient Mysteries written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1993 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Called the ""Reader's Digest of New England Archaeology,"" by experts in the field, this book covers all finds and sits by amateur and professional ancient artifact hunters since America was first settled. Hundreds of messages were cut into stone by unknown ancient settlers. Carved faces, well-made homes of rock, Celtic ritual sites, dolmens, and other ancient remnants are scattered throughout the New England states, making it quite apparent that visitors from other lands lived here hundreds of years before Columbus discovered America. Ancient coins, weapons, lamps, containers and art objects have been uncovered as well -- all well documented and described, with photos in this fascinating book."
Book Synopsis Spooky New England by : S. E. Schlosser
Download or read book Spooky New England written by S. E. Schlosser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-07-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of folktales highlighting famous and not-so-famous New England ghosts, mysterious happenings, powers of darkness, and wonders of the invisible world. Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for 35 creepy tails of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Set in New England's historic towns, charming old islands, and sparsely populated backwoods, the stories in this entertaining and compelling collection will have you looking over your shoulder again and again. Yankee folklore is kept alive in these expert retellings by master storyteller S.E. Schlosser, and in artist Paul Hoffman's evocative illustrations. You'll meet seaweed-covered phantom sailors and a ghostly black dog, hear otherworldly voices and things that go bump in the night, and feel an icy wind on the back of your neck on a warm summer evening. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma’s, this is a collection to treasure.
Book Synopsis New England's Strange Sea Sagas by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Strange Sea Sagas written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1990 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Doryman rowed hundreds of miles in a blizzard until his hands froze off; a ship smashes against the rocky coast of Maine and the crew begins eating the cook; a captain ships a rock-hard cargo to the tropics where it begins to disappear and no one will touch it because it burns their skin - what is it? These and many more strange sea stories of fact, including Flotsam and Jetsam and an ongoing curse on submarines."
Book Synopsis New England's Pirates and Lost Treasures by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Pirates and Lost Treasures written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1980 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most 17th and 18th century pirates came from New England and New York. They spent winters in the tropics pilaging and came north to rob in the summer months. Most of their treasures were buried here, closer to their homes, yet little has been uncovered. This book tells about the most notorious pirates who frequented the New England coast, including Kidd and Blackbeard, and describes treasure, thus far found mostly on the outer islands, and where unfound treasures might be uncovered."
Book Synopsis New England's Witches and Wizards by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Witches and Wizards written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1992 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Funny and fearful true stories of witches, innocent victims and their accusers in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Curses that seemingly worked their magic and cures by healers that begot them the gallows. Emphasis is on Salem Village in 1692, where 20 accused of witchcraft were executed."
Book Synopsis New England's Riotous Revolution by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Riotous Revolution written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1987 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "George Twelvetrees Hewes wasn't a midget, but he was close. After his funny exploits during the American Revolution, he wrote a journal, and the author uses this journal to weave his tantalizing true story of those great and little known characters who won our independence from England. People like Revere, John Adams and Hancock were not considered heroes by their co-patriots, whereas the eccentric Otis and the crafty Warren were the real leaders, their names are almost forgotten now. A real insight into the courage, humor and day-to-day lives of our revolutionaries."
Book Synopsis New England's Ghostly Haunts by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Ghostly Haunts written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1982 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best seller in the series. Real hauntings experienced by the author and his friends, including the story of America's first ghost, who was seen by hundreds of people in Maine. There is a chapter on New Hampshire's "Good Ghosts", and another on "Where to go ghost hunting." Do not read at night!
Book Synopsis New England's Cruel and Unusual Punishments by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book New England's Cruel and Unusual Punishments written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1994 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "People were burned at the stake in New England, and whipping was a common punishment. Hangings were gala affairs where food and drink was served, and pelting a neighbor who sat in the stocks with rocks and filth from the street was a weekly form of recreation. There were strict rules and regulations for all 17th and 18th centruy Pilgrims and Puritans -- and to break a rule might mean death. Yet, children, women and anyone of a different religion were treated quite cruelly, whether they broke the rules or not. Almost every New England family owned at least one black (and sometimes one white) slave prior to the Revolution, and the slave's fate was at the whim of his or her master. This book reveals some old and well-kept secrets that will surprise you."
Book Synopsis The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack by : Karl Bell
Download or read book The Legend of Spring-heeled Jack written by Karl Bell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing study of a unique and unsettling cultural phenomenon in Victorian England. WINNER of the 2013 Katharine Briggs Award NEW LOWER PRICE This book uses the nineteenth-century legend of Spring-Heeled Jack to analyse and challenge current notions of Victorian popular cultures. Starting as oral rumours, this supposedly supernatural entity moved from rural folklore to metropolitan press sensation, co-existing in literary and theatrical forms before finally degenerating into a nursery lore bogeyman to frighten children. A mercurial and unfixed cultural phenomenon, Spring-Heeled Jack found purchase in both older folkloric traditions and emerging forms of entertainment. Through this intriguing study of a unique and unsettling figure, Karl Bell complicates our appreciation of the differences, interactions and similarities between various types of popular culture between 1837 and 1904. The book draws upon a rich variety of primary source material including folklorist accounts, street ballads, several series of "penny dreadful" stories (and illustrations), journals, magazines, newspapers, comics, court accounts, autobiographies and published reminiscences. The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack is impressively researched social history and provides a fascinating insight into Victorian cultures. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in nineteenth-century English social and cultural history, folklore or literature. Karl Bell is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Portsmouth.
Book Synopsis Strange New England by : Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson
Download or read book Strange New England written by Thomas D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England boasts some of the strangest characters and stories that ever graced a region. From ghosts blessing a marriage to a clairvoyant who raised the dead, mysterious happenings abound. There is the simple grave of the mysterious and anonymous "XYZ" and the extravagant monument built for a pauper. One man may have actually found the elixir of immortality, while another woman left her whole fortune to a spirit she met via a Ouija board. Stories of the Melon Heads, the Leather Man and the Old Coot of Mount Greylock have fascinated New Englanders for years. Join Tom D'Agostino and Arlene Nicholson as they unveil the mysteries and oddities of this unique region.
Book Synopsis The Old Irish of New England by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book The Old Irish of New England written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1974 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of the servants who came to the New World with the Pilgrims and Puritans were Irish and Scots-Irish, yet their names were not recorded for posterity. The Irish snuck into Boston by the hundreds in the 1600s and by the thousands in the early 1700s. The famed Boston Massacre was really an Irish Massacre, since most who participated on both sides were Irish. The greatest American privateersman was Irish, and many of Washington's generals were Irish, as were a high percentage of his troops. If you're of Irish blood, this is the book for you "
Book Synopsis Strange Beliefs, Customs, & Superstitions of New England by : Leo Bonfanti
Download or read book Strange Beliefs, Customs, & Superstitions of New England written by Leo Bonfanti and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Weird New England by : Joseph A. Citro
Download or read book Weird New England written by Joseph A. Citro and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It may seem like clambakes, the Red Sox, and the Patriots define New England, but boy did the Pilgrims land in one very strange spot! These six states are filled with odd curiosities and bizarre legends, such as the elusive Vermont hum, the hibernating hill folk, hillside whale tales, and the Holy Land (yes, you read that right). Tongue-in-cheek and filled with dry wit, this is a journey you'll not soon forget."--P. [4] of cover.
Download or read book Spooky Texas written by S. E. Schlosser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-08-13 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitably, hauntings and paranormal happenings in the Lone Star state are larger than life. Included in this must-read collection are tales of the ghost lights of Marfa, the werewolf of Elroy, and the Devil’s brand in the eternal roundup of El Paso. Your hair will stand on end as you read about the mysteries and lore in Spooky Texas.
Book Synopsis Olde New England's Curious Customs and Cures by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book Olde New England's Curious Customs and Cures written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Saltbox. This book was released on 1990 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book presents hundreds of old Indian rituals and remedies, plus the unusual and sometimes practical cures of our Colonial quack doctors. Witches' recipes for healing and the miracle ingredients of Kickapoo Juice, a century-old cure-all for all ailments, will bring a tear to your eye and a lump in your throat."
Book Synopsis Salem's Secret by : Robert Ellis Cahill
Download or read book Salem's Secret written by Robert Ellis Cahill and published by Old Salt Box Publishing Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
