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Author : Charles E. Clark
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874518726
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (187 download)
Download or read book The Meetinghouse Tragedy written by Charles E. Clark and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic story of a colonial town's experience of and response to communal catastrophe.
Author : Lisa Rogak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493023802
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Stones and Bones of New England written by Lisa Rogak and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether it's for their solace and beauty or for the sense of history that seeps from the ground, cemeteries are fascinating places to visit, this guide shows where to find the most interesting and unusual ones in all of New England. Some have headstones that are fine art, others are associated with notorious events, and others are the final resting place of famous poets, soldiers, and statesmen. Included are large public facilities as well as the small family burying grounds hidden away behind crumbling stone walls and along once-cultivated farmland. A sampling of cemeteries profiled: *Hope Cemetery in Barre, Vermont, where lifelike sculptures of angels and Greek goddesses stand next to a stone soccer ball and Shell Oil truck gravemarker, all elaborately carved from local granite by immigrant Italian stonecutters. *Spider Gates Cemetery, in Leicester, Massachusetts, a notorious Quaker burying ground famed for its frequent ghost sightings and still in use today. *A cemetery situated on the raised median of the Interstate in Warner, New Hampshire,which was preserved in 1970 by highway planners, who constructed the roadway around it. *Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven, Vermont, final resting place of Timothy Clark Smith, whose 1893 crypt includes a window to help him escape in case he was buried alive. Driving directions are provided for each cemetery, and detailed maps show the location of the more obscure graveyards. This unique guide offers an intriguing way to learn about the history and culture of New England.
Author : Jerald E. Brown
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650522
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Years of the Life of Samuel Lane, 1718-1806 written by Jerald E. Brown and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Lane, whose life in and around the town of Stratham, New Hampshire, spanned much of the 18th century, was truly a "Renaissance man." Civic, business, and personal concerns fill the pages of the diary he kept for over 60 years. The worries, dilemmas, and day-to-day work Lane detailed provide a compelling view of life in colonial New Hampshire. Together with his business records and family papers, Lane's diaries form an important part of the New Hampshire Historical Society's collections. Basing his narrative on careful study of this rich documentary legacy, historian Jerald E. Brown explores the life, career, and motivations of one man and his family. In a preliminary essay, editor Donna-Belle Garvin introduces Lane's world to the reader. The many illustrations of leatherworking, farming, surveying, buildings, bridges, crops, animals, and gravestones draw readers into the complex world and work that shaped Lane and his family. This fascinating tale is the most complete account now available of the life of a colonial New England artisan and tradesman.
Author : Charles E. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195082338
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Public Prints written by Charles E. Clark and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1994 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the hands of Charles E. Clark, American newspaper publishing becomes a branch of the English world of print in a story that begins in the bustling streets of late-seventeenth-century London and moves to the provincial towns of England and across the Atlantic
Author : Irene Allen
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312964245
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (642 download)
Download or read book Quaker Testimony written by Irene Allen and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-01-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a Cambridge, Massachusetts Quaker community, a member of the congregation is killed just before she and her family are due to be evicted from their home for nonpayment of taxes. Elizabeth Elliot, the 60ish clerk for the group, begins her own investigation into the murder when the local detective proves woefully inept.
Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762766964
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks written by Matthew P. Mayo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and hardy, intrepid characters. Bootleggers, Lobstermen, and Lumberjacks takes the top fifty wildest episodes in the region's bygone days and presents them to the reader in one convenient, narrative-driven package. Including incredible but true tales of hardy Yankee hill folk and crusty seafarers engaged in all manner of amazing activity—from witch-hunting to log rolling, sometimes with tragic results—this book is a perfect stroll through New England's past for resident and visitor alike. Yankee history is rife with all manner of shipwreck victims surviving any way they know how; Indian, pirate, and shark attacks, cougar and bear attacks, and, of course, rum runners and bootleggers doing what they do best.
Author : Jana Riess
Publisher : Hidden Spring
ISBN 13 : 9781587680083
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book The Spiritual Traveler written by Jana Riess and published by Hidden Spring. This book was released on 2002 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unique guidebook introduces hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, meeting houses, Buddhist meditation centers, Hindu and Sikh temples, as well as retreat centers of all religious traditions. Introductory chapters recount New England's spiritual history, offer an overview of its many faith traditions, and explain its sacred architecture. 100 illustrations.
Author : Organization of American Historians
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (723 download)
Download or read book The Journal of American History written by Organization of American Historians and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josiah Lafayette Seward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A History of the Town of Sullivan, New Hampshire, 1777-1917 written by Josiah Lafayette Seward and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josiah Lafayette Seward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 886 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book History written by Josiah Lafayette Seward and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emerson W. Baker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199890358
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book A Storm of Witchcraft written by Emerson W. Baker and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an invisible spirit, the community began a hunt to track down those responsible for the demonic work. The resulting Salem Witch Trials, culminating in the execution of 19 villagers, persists as one of the most mysterious and fascinating events in American history. Historians have speculated on a web of possible causes for the witchcraft that stated in Salem and spread across the region-religious crisis, ergot poisoning, an encephalitis outbreak, frontier war hysteria--but most agree that there was no single factor. Rather, as Emerson Baker illustrates in this seminal new work, Salem was "a perfect storm": a unique convergence of conditions and events that produced something extraordinary throughout New England in 1692 and the following years, and which has haunted us ever since. Baker shows how a range of factors in the Bay colony in the 1690s, including a new charter and government, a lethal frontier war, and religious and political conflicts, set the stage for the dramatic events in Salem. Engaging a range of perspectives, he looks at the key players in the outbreak--the accused witches and the people they allegedly bewitched, as well as the judges and government officials who prosecuted them--and wrestles with questions about why the Salem tragedy unfolded as it did, and why it has become an enduring legacy. Salem in 1692 was a critical moment for the fading Puritan government of Massachusetts Bay, whose attempts to suppress the story of the trials and erase them from memory only fueled the popular imagination. Baker argues that the trials marked a turning point in colonial history from Puritan communalism to Yankee independence, from faith in collective conscience to skepticism toward moral governance. A brilliantly told tale, A Storm of Witchcraft also puts Salem's storm into its broader context as a part of the ongoing narrative of American history and the history of the Atlantic World.
Author : David A. Copeland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313007268
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Debating the Issues in Colonial Newspapers written by David A. Copeland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-08-30 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every major event or issue of the colonial period, newspapers printed the opinions of the day, in many cases attempting to influence public opinion. Issues such as medical discoveries, education, and censorship are covered in this collection along with important events such as the French and Indian War, the trial of John Peter Zenger, and the Boston Massacre. Each chapter introduces the event or issue and includes news articles, letters, essays, even poetry representing both sides of the argument as they affected Americans. Each document is preceded by an explanatory introduction. This is the only collection of primary source documents from colonial newspapers on the events of the era and will be a valuable tool for research and classroom discussion.
Author : Peter C. Holloran
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102196
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Historical Dictionary of New England written by Peter C. Holloran and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England, the most clearly defined region in the United States, includes the six states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont. First colonized by the French in 1604 and the British in 1607, the New England colonies were the first to secede from the British Empire and were among the first states admitted to the union. No region has claimed more presidents as native sons (seven) or produced more men and women of exceptional accomplishment and fame. Many Americans see New England as a touchstone for the founding ideas of the nation, and the region served as a source of inspiration for many artists and writers. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of New England contains a chronology, an introduction, appendix, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, places, institutions, and events. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about New England.
Author : Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467148466
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Lake Winnipesaukee written by Glenn A. Knoblock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the time of the earliest Native Americans, Lake Winnipesaukee has experienced a rich yet often forgotten history. Known by many as "America's Oldest Summer Resort," the area's first summer home was built in Wolfeboro by a royal governor. The Massachusetts border once extended all the way to Laconia, while Center Harbor served as the site of the country's first college sports rivalry. Governors Island may now be the summer playground of the elite, but it was once at the center of a religious movement that called for the end of the world. From the country's most unusual airport in Alton to the tragic story of the Laconia State School, the lake has been the setting for many notable events. Join local historian and author Glenn Knoblock as he reveals the overlooked history of this unique region.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historical New Hampshire written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eleanor Kuhns
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250050006
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Cradle to Grave written by Eleanor Kuhns and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Rees is adjusting to life on his Maine farm in 1797, but he's already hungering for the freedom of the road, and his chance to travel comes sooner than he expects. Lydia has just received a letter from her old friend Mouse, a soft-spoken and gentle woman who now lives in the Shaker community in Mount Unity, New York. To Lydia and Rees's astonishment, she's in trouble with the law. She's kidnapped five children, claiming that their mother, Maggie Whitney, is unfit to care for them. Despite the wintry weather and icy roads, Rees and Lydia set out for New York, where they sadly conclude there's nothing they can do for Mouse legally, and they reluctantly set out for home. But before they've travelled very far, they receive more startling news. Maggie Whitney has been found murdered, and Mouse is the prime suspect.
Author : Richard P. Kollen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467135380
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts, The: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution written by Richard P. Kollen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the night of April 18, 1775, Paul Revere arrived at the parsonage of Reverend Jonas Clarke to deliver a warning to its occupants, including Samuel Adams and John Hancock. The following morning brought the first shots of the American Revolution to a community Clarke inspired to face such a harsh reality. He called on his parish to oppose imperial legislation for years leading up to the war. And as Lexington's minister for half a century, he was central to political, civic and social life there until his death in 1805. Historian Richard P. Kollen reveals the often overlooked story of the man who helped shape the spirit of the American Revolution.
