Author: James Robert PringlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Author: James Robert PringlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann
Author: John James BabsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Good Harbor
Author: Anita DiamantPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743225724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Follows the growing friendship between fifty-nine-year-old Kathleen, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, and the slightly younger Joyce, increasingly distant from her teenage daughter and struggling to write a second novel.
Vital Records of Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the End of the Year 1849
Author: Gloucester (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 858
Book Description
History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Author: James Robert PringlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gloucester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Author: James Robert PringlePublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230458823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... Solomon F. Downs, mus. January 4, 1862, for three years, 30th R., Co. K; dis. September 12, 1864, for disability. John L. Dulcy, mus. January 10, 1863, for three years, 3d R., H. A., Co. A, trans. to navy, September 19, 1864. See naval record. Thomas Dundass, mus. September 1, 1863, for three years, 22d R., Co. A, trans. to navy, April, 1864. See naval record. Martin Dunn, mus. September 15, 1862, for nine months, as corp., 8th R., Co. G, re-enl. July 18, 1864, for too days, as sergt., 8th R., Co. G; re enl. December 14, 1864, for one year, second Iieut. 25th Unattached, dis. June 29, 1865. William E. Dunn, mus. August II, 1862, for three years, 32d R., Co. H, re-enl. January 5, 1864, trans. to navy, May 3, 1864. See naval record. John K. Dustin, Jr., mus. September 28, 1861, for three years, 23d R., Co. C, eng.: Roanoke and Newbern; trans. to V. R. C, February 8, 1864; dis. September 28, 1864. J. Franklin Dyer, mus. August 22, 1861. for three years, surgeon, 19th R., eng.: Ball's Bluff, Yorktown, West Point, Fair Oaks, June 1 and 16, 1862; Orchard Station, Savage Station, White Oak Swamp, Glendale, Malvern Hill, First and Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Bristow Station, Mine Run, Wilderness, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Tolopotomy Creek, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Strawberry Plains, Ream's Station; appointed surgeon-in-chief. Second Division, Second Army Corps, on General Howard's staff, December 3, 1862; dis. August 28, 1864. John Dunn, 28th R., Co. D, wounded, 1864. Horace M. Eaton, mus. Aug. 11, 1862, 32dR., Co. H, for three years, re-enl. Januuary 5, 1864 as corp., dis. June 29, 1S65. Osman 0. Earle, mus. Jan 15,1864, 17th 111. R., Co. H, for thirty-seven months, ...
Alone at Sea
Author: John N. MorrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781567924763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
With over seventy photographs and maps, an extensive glossary of fishing terms, and a detailed chronology of the Gloucester fleet, including all the fishermen and vessels lost at sea since 1693, 'Alone at Sea' is a comprehensive record of life in the area.
Swimming to the Top of the Tide
Author: Patricia HanlonPublisher: Bellevue Literary Press
ISBN: 1942658885
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Four seasons of immersion in New England’s Great Marsh “Like Wendell Berry and Rachel Carson, Hanlon is a true poet-ecologist, sharing in exquisitely resonant prose her patient observations of nature’s most intimate details. As she and her husband, through summer and snow, swim their local creeks and estuaries, we marvel at the timeless yet fragile terrain of both marshlands and marriage. This is the book to awaken all of us, right now, to how our coastline is changing and what it means for our future.” —Julia Glass, author of Three Junes and A House Among the Trees The Great Marsh is the largest continuous stretch of salt marsh in New England, extending from Cape Ann to New Hampshire. Patricia Hanlon and her husband built their home and raised their children alongside it. But it is not until the children are grown that they begin to swim the tidal estuary daily. Immersing herself, she experiences, with all her senses in all seasons, the vigor of a place where the two ecosystems of fresh and salt water mix, merge, and create new life. In Swimming to the Top of the Tide, Hanlon lyrically charts her explorations, at once intimate and scientific. Noting the disruptions caused by human intervention, she bears witness to the vitality of the watersheds, their essential role in the natural world, and the responsibility of those who love them to contribute to their sustainability. Patricia Hanlon is a visual artist who paints the beautiful ecosystem of New England’s Great Marsh and is involved in the watershed organizations of Greater Boston. Swimming to the Top of the Tide is her first book.
Dogtown
Author: Elyssa EastPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416587187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
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.
The Perfect Storm
Author: Sebastian JungerPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393040166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
A true story of men against the sea.