Are you looking for read ebook online? Search for your book and save it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Download Moose Memoirs and Lobster Tales PDF full book. Access full book title Moose Memoirs and Lobster Tales by John McDonald. Download full books in PDF and EPUB format.
Author: John McDonald Publisher: Down East Books ISBN: 1608934470 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in general. Following up the wildly popular A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, the "Dean of Maine Storytelling" offers a new collection of stories that will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh. Here's a new round of classic stories brimming with half truths, stretched truths, and wry observations about life in Maine.
Author: John McDonald Publisher: Down East Books ISBN: 1608934470 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 303
Book Description
John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in general. Following up the wildly popular A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, the "Dean of Maine Storytelling" offers a new collection of stories that will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh. Here's a new round of classic stories brimming with half truths, stretched truths, and wry observations about life in Maine.
Author: Al Michaud Publisher: ISBN: 9780578494609 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Fifteen feet high. Twenty-five hundred pounds. Grayish-white in color. This was the common description of Old Moxie, otherwise known as the Specter Moose of Lobster Lake, Maine. His antlers spread twelve feet across and were spiked with over forty tines. His hoofprint measured ten inches wide. He had a double mane that fell on each side of his neck, and the "bell" hanging under his chin was eighteen inches long."Hunter Shoots at Monster Whose Existence Was Doubted," reported the New York Times on November 5, 1899: "A party of hunters have created great excitement among the sportsmen and guides here by the announcement that they have seen the great gray moose that has haunted the vicinity of Lobster Lake for the past seven years." The year 1899 was just the beginning. For over a half century the Specter Moose would reign as the crowned terror of the Maine Woods. They say L.L. Bean wore out his first pair of boots in search of him. Big game hunter President Teddy Roosevelt wanted to pursue him. Big game maker Milton Bradley wanted to outplay those in pursuit. Governor Percival Baxter created a state park just to protect him. And Fly Rod Crosby, Maine's femme venatrix fatale, thought he was just plain bad for tourism. Sportsmen from across the country and around the globe rushed to the Maine Woods to get a crack at the Specter Moose. But the antlered abomination defied bullets, defied death, and defied logic. Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain feared there would be no Appomattox in the Specter Moose War.And he was right.
Author: John Gould Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 1789124808 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 262
Book Description
Another in John Gould’s Maine series, And One to Grow On: Recollections of a Maine Boyhood, originally published in 1948, is a wonderful collection of anecdotes from the author’s very own boyhood in his hometown—where the mailman was a spiritualist, the harbor master rated a Navy celebration, a circus went bankrupt, and practical jokers were well loved. The maybasketing, the church suppers, the picnics, fishing, are all vividly remembered... There is the story of Sophie whose death proved that rouge did not cover a birthmark... The town drunk who was a successful farmer as well as husband and father... The doctor who was a permanent guest at all school graduations since he had delivered all the children... And there is the tale of Gould’s own dairy chores that included a cow who would not let down and thereby caused a problem with his schooling. On and on these homely, funny stories of a childhood go, conveying in colorful detail just how much fun author John Gould had, growing up, living, and writing in Maine.
Author: Timothy Cotton Publisher: Down East Books ISBN: 1608937437 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Tim Cotton has been a police officer for more than thirty years. The writer in him has always been drawn to the stories of the people he has met along the way. Dealing with the standard issue ne’er-do-wells as a patrol officer, homicide detective, polygraph examiner, and later as the lieutenant in charge of the criminal investigation division certainly provides an interesting backdrop—but more often he writes about the regular folks he encounters, people who need his help, or those who just want to share a joke or even a sad story. The Detective in the Dooryard is composed of stories about the people, places, and things of Maine. There are sad stories, big events, and even the very mundane, all told from the perspective of a seasoned police office and in the wry voice of a lifelong Mainer. Many of the stories will leave you chuckling, some will invariably bring tears to your eyes, but all will leave you with a profound sense of hope and positivity.
Author: Kate Christensen Publisher: ISBN: 9781939017734 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2012 memoir, Blue Plate Special, author Kate Christensen continues her exploration into autobiography and food in this important new culinary memoir about cooking at the end of the world, both geographically and metaphorically.
Author: John Reimringer Publisher: Milkweed Editions ISBN: 157131816X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 433
Book Description
A priest struggling with temptation moves back into his working-class childhood home in this “suspenseful, illuminating, and highly readable saga” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). Let me begin today, illumined by Thy light, to destroy this part of the natural man which lives in me in its entirety, the obstacle that constantly keeps me from Thy Love . . . Taught this prayer as a boy by his grandfather, James Dressler recites it each time he’s tempted by earthly desires. Originally drawn to the priesthood by the mystery, purity, and sensual fabric of the Church, as well as by its promise of a safe harbor from his tempestuous home, James nevertheless finds himself—just a few years after his ordination—living at home: saying Mass for his mother at the dining room table; avoiding his pugilistic father; playing basketball; preparing to officiate at his brother’s wedding, and becoming attracted again to his first love, Betty García. Torn between these opposing desires, and haunted by his familial heritage, James finds himself at a crossroads. Exploring age-old yet urgently contemporary issues in the Catholic Church, and infused throughout with a rich sense of the history and vibrant texture of St. Paul, Minnesota, this is an utterly honest novel filled with “thoughtful themes and lyrical prose” (Booklist). “Deeply rooted in history, burning with family furies, and told by a narrator-priest you find yourself rooting for (and wondering about), this is a captivating novel, scene by scene.” —Patricia Hampl, author of The Florist’s Daughter
Author: John McDonald
Author: John McDonald
Author: Tom Meis
Author: Samuel Merrill
Author: Clyde P. Moose
Author: Al Michaud
Author: John Gould
Author: Tim Sample
Author: Timothy Cotton
Author: Kate Christensen
Author: John Reimringer