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Author : Lew-Ellyn Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940244839
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (448 download)
Download or read book Maine Stories written by Lew-Ellyn Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lori-Suzanne Dell
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986546263
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Stories from Maine written by Lori-Suzanne Dell and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories From Maine is a collection of incredible and interesting stories, which include the lore and legends usually omitted from history all told in narrative form.
Author : Thomas Verde
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1461744717
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book Maine Ghosts and Legends written by Thomas Verde and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine has a rich supernatural history and ghost stories from the state are as varied as they are prolific. Freelance writer and reporter Tom Verde first became interested in such eerie occurrences while researching first-hand encounters with ghosts for a series of public radio programs. This book recounts some of the spine-tingling tales he uncovered in his research, including: •The dagger-wielding shade who terrorized a Portland couple •The murdered Indian who revisited Means’s Tavern •Famed diva Lillian Nordica, whose voice still echoes through the Farmington auditorium named in her honor •The hostile spirit who tried to frighten the tenants out of an Orrington house •Even an entire phantom ship, bound eternally for Freeport These are not fictitious creations of literary imagination. People from all walks of life—including many who were positive they would never believe in ghosts—attest to these encounters.
Author : Sophia Swett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257056859
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Stories of Maine written by Sophia Swett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-03-08 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE stories of the smallest, the least important, the most favored by fate of the United States of the New World, are well worth the telling. It may therefore be wondered that those of Maine - historically the beginning of New England, the scene of the bloodiest Indian wars, the place where different European nations contended most fiercely for supremacy, and whose records are so dramatic that they read like folklore and legend rather than veritable history - should have been so little told. Many of those that have been told are to be found in histories that are out of print and forgotten, and in the musty folios of the historical societies, where the young people, at least, seldom look. Some not yet, and perhaps never to be read, have been written by glaciers and fossil remains on rocky headlands and in obscure caves. In remote graveyards strange foreign names and inscriptions hint of others.
Author : Sanford Phippen
Publisher : Down East Books
ISBN 13 : 1461741734
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book The Best Maine Stories written by Sanford Phippen and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an enchanting, mysterious, and sometimes very hard state, the selections in Best Maine Stories speak profoundly to the rest of America of a unique land of the heart.
Author : Bernard P. Fishman
Publisher : Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0884485862
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (844 download)
Download or read book A Story of Maine in 112 Objects: From Prehistory to Modern Times written by Bernard P. Fishman and published by Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1836, the Maine State Museum is America’s oldest state museum and is known to many as “Maine’s Smithsonian” because of the breadth and diversity of its holdings—nearly a million objects covering every aspect of the state’s cultural, biological, and geological history—and the thousands of stories its collections tell. For this book the museum selected and photographed 112 artifacts and specimens that, together, tell an epic story of the land and its people from prehistoric times to the present. It is a story covering 395 million years, a story told with a walrus skull and fossils, tourmaline and spear points, mammoth tusks and bone fishhooks, Norse coins and caulking irons, militia flags and survey stakes, treaty documents and wooden tankards, a temperance banner and a locomotive, Joshua Chamberlain’s pistol and a cod tub trawl, a Lombard log hauler and a woman’s WWII welding outfit, L. L. Bean boots and German POW snowshoes, and many more objects from the museum’s collections. Short narratives written by museum curators are woven around each item—including photos of related objects—and the ensemble has been honed, polished, and introduced by museum director Bernard Fishman. This is a book that historians and Maine residents and visitors will delve into again and again, unearthing new treasures with each reading.
Author : Harry Gratwick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625840764
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Stories from the Maine Coast written by Harry Gratwick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Maine has always been inextricably tied to its coastline. The sea first brought settlers, and the rich fishing and shipbuilding industries sustained growth. The Atlantic also connected Mainers to the rest of the world. Goods and ideas traveled the maritime routes that originated in populous Portland and more isolated places like Carver's Harbor and Deer Isle. From Searsport's sailing masters to the burning of Royal Tar, author Harry Gratwick relates the adventures of the skippers and their crews. Read about the search for the Smithy Boat and other tales from Maine's shipping lanes.
Author : Harry Gratwick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614231346
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Maine written by Harry Gratwick and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-28 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover 400 years of New England history you won’t find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State. Maine wouldn’t be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to ever win a Major League Baseball batting championship, Hidden History of Maine reveals the men and women who made history without making it into history books.
Author : Don Perkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614236879
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Barns of Maine: Our History, Our Stories written by Don Perkins and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although humble in their function, these carefully crafted barns have shaped the landscape of Maine for centuries. Built long before the days of plastic and plywood, the barns have survived for generations, each with a story to tell. In Bridgton, one barn offered comfort to a 16 year-old boy when his father was injured; another New Gloucester barn was so important to one family that its likeness was engraved on their headstones. Some owners said they would rather see their homes burn than their barns, and others have dedicated their lives and countless funds to restoring and preserving these buildings. From modest English to grand Victorian, Don Perkins examines the structures, origins, and evolution of Maine's barns, demonstrating the vital and precious role they play in people's lives.
Author : Sophia Swett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Stories of Maine written by Sophia Swett and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Francis Sprague
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Sprague's Journal of Maine History written by John Francis Sprague and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Valerie Hart, Susan Henderson, Juliana L'Heureux & Ann Sossong,
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467135399
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Maine Nursing: Interviews and History on Caring and Competence written by Valerie Hart, Susan Henderson, Juliana L'Heureux & Ann Sossong, and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine nurses have served tirelessly as caregivers and partners in healing at home and abroad, from hospitals to battlefields. The Division of Public Health Nursing and Child Hygiene was established in 1920 to combat high rates of infant mortality in Washington and Aroostook Counties. During the Vietnam War, Maine nurses helped build the Twelfth Evacuation Hospital at Cu Chi and bravely assisted surgeries in the midst of fighting. In the early 1980s, nurse disease prevention educators in Portland rose to the challenge of combating the growing AIDS epidemic. Through historical anecdotes and fascinating oral histories, discover the remarkable sacrifices and achievements of Maine's nurses.
Author : Gail Underwood Parker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762795794
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book It Happened in Maine written by Gail Underwood Parker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Happened in Maine takes readers on a rollicking, behind-the-scenes look at some of the characters and episodes from the Pine Tree State's storied past. Including both famous tales, and famous names--and little-known heroes, heroines, and happenings.
Author : Roxie J. Zwicker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467150312
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Maine Book of the Dead: Graveyard Legends and Lore written by Roxie J. Zwicker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine's graveyards contain the ancient memories and last words of woodsmen, lighthouse keepers, inventors, sea captains and the people who called this rugged land home. In an island cemetery rests Tall Barney, a six-foot-seven folk hero who single-handedly took down fifteen men in a Portland bar. Kittery holds the grave for the crew of the doomed ship the Hattie Eaton. Mount Hope Cemetery in Bangor is the final resting place for the famed "Sky Blue Madam" Fanny Jones and Public Enemy No. 1, gangster Al Brady. Camp Etna contains the grave of famed medium Mary Vanderbilt. Dead Man's Gulch in Wales holds many eerie tales of ghosts that refuse to leave. Join renowned author and tour guide Roxie Zwicker as she explores Maine's historic and legendary graveyards.
Author : Major Bill Kenny USAF (Ret.)
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439669708
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book A History of Maine Railroads written by Major Bill Kenny USAF (Ret.) and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine is populated with intriguing characters who set in motion a fascinating, compelling story of railroads and the unique communities they helped to build. One of the first states to build railroads and trolleys in the United States, Maine at one point had more than ninety communities with trolleys. Standard-gauge and "two-footers" crossed the state, including the St. Lawrence & Atlantic and the Bangor & Aroostook. From an international electric trolley to the attempted World War I dynamiting of a railroad bridge between the United States and Canada, the state is home to a rich rail heritage. Join Bill Kenny as he takes you on a journey from the first tracks made of wood to today's high-speed Downeaster Amtrak train.
Author : Jim Harnedy
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439666822
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Forgotten Tales of Down East Maine written by Jim Harnedy and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-05-13 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine has a collection of unique characters and tales that has helped to shape its identity. Meet the Artist Who Played Robin Hood, the Hermit of North Pond and the Mysterious Billy Smith. Uncover the state's hidden gems with stories like the Midas Scam in Lubec, which left investors with little but salt water to show for their investment. From the tragedy of the Wreck of the Circus Ship to the uplifting story of the Schoolgirl Ambassador, Maine author and veteran storyteller Jim Harnedy brings out the offbeat characters and events that have made the Pine Tree State so unique.
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 986 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Sprague's Journal of Maine History written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
