Author: Russell A. Lovell (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996702300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
As the oldest town on Cape Cod, Sandwich embraces its history and is proud that many of its families have played a large roll in settling other parts of New England and beyond. This book presents the history of Sandwich with the use of original town and Colony records, diaries, wills and deeds.
Sandwich, a Cape Cod Town
Author: Russell A. Lovell (Jr.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996702300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
As the oldest town on Cape Cod, Sandwich embraces its history and is proud that many of its families have played a large roll in settling other parts of New England and beyond. This book presents the history of Sandwich with the use of original town and Colony records, diaries, wills and deeds.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996702300
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
As the oldest town on Cape Cod, Sandwich embraces its history and is proud that many of its families have played a large roll in settling other parts of New England and beyond. This book presents the history of Sandwich with the use of original town and Colony records, diaries, wills and deeds.
Cape Cod Noir (Akashic Noir)
Author: David L. Ulin
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Malice and mayhem simmer beneath the surface of one of America's favorite vacation areas. “Youthful alienation and despair dominate the 13 stories in Akashic’s noir volume devoted to Cape Cod. [It] will satisfy those with a hankering for a taste of the dark side.” —Publishers Weekly “David L. Ulin has put together a malicious collection of short stories that will stay with you long after you return home safe.” —The Cult: The Official Chuck Palahniuk Website Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: William Hastings, Elyssa East, Dana Cameron, Paul Tremblay, Adam Mansbach, Seth Greenland, Lizzie Skurnick, David L. Ulin, Kaylie Jones, Fred G. Leebron, Ben Greenman, Dave Zeltserman, and Jedediah Berry. From the introduction by David L. Ulin: “Here, we see the inverse of the Cape Cod stereotype, with its sailboats and its presidents. Here, we see the flip side of the Kennedys, of all those preppies in docksiders eating steamers, of the whale watchers and bicycles and kites. Here, we see the Cape beneath the surface, the Cape after the summer people have gone home. It doesn’t make the other Cape any less real, but it does suggest a symbiosis, in which our sense of the place can’t help but become more complicated, less about vacation living than something more nuanced and profound . . . "For me, Cape Cod is a repository of memory: forty summers in the same house will do that to you. But it is also a landscape of hidden tensions, which rise up when we least anticipate. In part, this has to do with social aspiration, which is one of the things that brought my family, like many others, to the Cape. In part, it has to do with social division, which has been a factor since at least the end of the nineteenth century, when then summer trade began. There are lines here, lines that get crossed and lines that never get crossed, the kinds of lines that form the web of noir. Call it what you want—summer and smoke is how I think of it—but that’s the Cape Cod at the center of this book.“
Publisher: Akashic Books
ISBN: 1617750611
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Malice and mayhem simmer beneath the surface of one of America's favorite vacation areas. “Youthful alienation and despair dominate the 13 stories in Akashic’s noir volume devoted to Cape Cod. [It] will satisfy those with a hankering for a taste of the dark side.” —Publishers Weekly “David L. Ulin has put together a malicious collection of short stories that will stay with you long after you return home safe.” —The Cult: The Official Chuck Palahniuk Website Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each story is set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Brand-new stories by: William Hastings, Elyssa East, Dana Cameron, Paul Tremblay, Adam Mansbach, Seth Greenland, Lizzie Skurnick, David L. Ulin, Kaylie Jones, Fred G. Leebron, Ben Greenman, Dave Zeltserman, and Jedediah Berry. From the introduction by David L. Ulin: “Here, we see the inverse of the Cape Cod stereotype, with its sailboats and its presidents. Here, we see the flip side of the Kennedys, of all those preppies in docksiders eating steamers, of the whale watchers and bicycles and kites. Here, we see the Cape beneath the surface, the Cape after the summer people have gone home. It doesn’t make the other Cape any less real, but it does suggest a symbiosis, in which our sense of the place can’t help but become more complicated, less about vacation living than something more nuanced and profound . . . "For me, Cape Cod is a repository of memory: forty summers in the same house will do that to you. But it is also a landscape of hidden tensions, which rise up when we least anticipate. In part, this has to do with social aspiration, which is one of the things that brought my family, like many others, to the Cape. In part, it has to do with social division, which has been a factor since at least the end of the nineteenth century, when then summer trade began. There are lines here, lines that get crossed and lines that never get crossed, the kinds of lines that form the web of noir. Call it what you want—summer and smoke is how I think of it—but that’s the Cape Cod at the center of this book.“
The Enduring Shore
Author: Paul Schneider
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250135214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides -- and of its varied inhabitants -- becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250135214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides -- and of its varied inhabitants -- becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.
Cape Cod ABCs
Author: Leslie Hatton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615352985
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Cape Cod ABCs details some of the Cape's unique beauties and treasures in charming rhymes. Both young and older readers will love the delightful illustrations that speak to each letter so perfectly. It is a lovely little must-read for anyone who wants to discover all that the Cape has to offer from A to Z.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615352985
Category : Alphabet
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Cape Cod ABCs details some of the Cape's unique beauties and treasures in charming rhymes. Both young and older readers will love the delightful illustrations that speak to each letter so perfectly. It is a lovely little must-read for anyone who wants to discover all that the Cape has to offer from A to Z.
Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands
Author: Andrew T. Eldredge
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738511573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In 1848, the railroad extended to Cape Cod to serve the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. By 1887, fourteen of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod were connected by the railroad. For a short time, even the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard had railroad lines. As the highways expanded in the years following World War II, the automobile became the primary mode of transportation. By 1959, year-round Cape Cod passenger service had been discontinued. Today, many miles of track have been removed to accommodate recreational bike paths.Using hundreds of historic images, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands illustrates the rich heritage of passenger and freight rail transportation on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Mainland connections once involved transfer between ship and rail at wharves in Provincetown, Hyannis, and Woods Hole. Since 1935, trains have crossed the Cape Cod Canal on the world's second longest vertical-lift bridge.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738511573
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In 1848, the railroad extended to Cape Cod to serve the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company. By 1887, fourteen of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod were connected by the railroad. For a short time, even the islands of Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard had railroad lines. As the highways expanded in the years following World War II, the automobile became the primary mode of transportation. By 1959, year-round Cape Cod passenger service had been discontinued. Today, many miles of track have been removed to accommodate recreational bike paths.Using hundreds of historic images, Railroads of Cape Cod and the Islands illustrates the rich heritage of passenger and freight rail transportation on Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket. Mainland connections once involved transfer between ship and rail at wharves in Provincetown, Hyannis, and Woods Hole. Since 1935, trains have crossed the Cape Cod Canal on the world's second longest vertical-lift bridge.
A Book of Quotations
Author: W. Gurney Benham
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1914.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3846047627
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1914.
Plymouth Colony, Its History & People, 1620-1691
Author: Eugene Aubrey Stratton
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
An account of the early years of Plymouth Colony, told in part in the words of the settlers, with appendices reproducing original documents and biographical sketches.
Publisher: Ancestry Publishing
ISBN: 9780916489182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
An account of the early years of Plymouth Colony, told in part in the words of the settlers, with appendices reproducing original documents and biographical sketches.
Blackbird House
Author: Alice Hoffman
Publisher: Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 0345455932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of two centuries.
Publisher: Alice Hoffman
ISBN: 0345455932
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Presents a series of interlinking stories that capture the lives and fortunes of the various occupants of an old Massachusetts house over the course of two centuries.
Drives of a Lifetime
Author: National Geographic
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1426210965
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
National Geographic presents the great outdoors through the world’s best auto trips, for nature lovers, hikers, and adventurers. Pack your suitcase, load up the car, and head for the open road! This lavishly illustrated, hardcover travel planner and gift book gives you every bit of information you'll need to navigate 400 amazing driving routes in some of the world's most fascinating locales. This practical travel planner provides specific, in-depth descriptions of the sights each drive offers. A clear, detailed, easy-to-read map of each route. Useful information on the best time to travel. And insider tips to help you get the most out of every fabulous trip. Abundant sidebars call your attention to standout sights along the drive or entertaining background information on the region and its culture. While handy indeed as a planner, Drives of a Lifetime doubles as a full-color gift book with more than 200 dazzling, large-format photos and crisp, evocative text that will enchant armchair travelers. The book immerses you in the unique appeal and beauty of hundreds of inviting locales. Sample entries include the road to the spectacular ancient ruins in and around Angkor Wat in Cambodia; the Natchez Trace Parkway, along an ancient Native American trail through Mississippi; the scenic old coastal route from Dublin to Wexford in Ireland; an off-road dune drive in Dubai; the famous ocean views along the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia, Canada; the Winelands Route through South Africa's Western Cape; a drive among the incredible land formations in South Dakota's Badlands; and an archaeological tour through Syria. In addition, you'll find several fun Top Ten lists: skyscraping drives, Mediterranean island roads, African wildlife excursions, and more. Chapters organized by theme include Ultimate Road Trips, featuring famous drives such as Highway One down the California coast; Over Hill and Mountains; By Sea and Shore; The Road Less Traveled, highlighting unpaved an
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
ISBN: 1426210965
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 1066
Book Description
National Geographic presents the great outdoors through the world’s best auto trips, for nature lovers, hikers, and adventurers. Pack your suitcase, load up the car, and head for the open road! This lavishly illustrated, hardcover travel planner and gift book gives you every bit of information you'll need to navigate 400 amazing driving routes in some of the world's most fascinating locales. This practical travel planner provides specific, in-depth descriptions of the sights each drive offers. A clear, detailed, easy-to-read map of each route. Useful information on the best time to travel. And insider tips to help you get the most out of every fabulous trip. Abundant sidebars call your attention to standout sights along the drive or entertaining background information on the region and its culture. While handy indeed as a planner, Drives of a Lifetime doubles as a full-color gift book with more than 200 dazzling, large-format photos and crisp, evocative text that will enchant armchair travelers. The book immerses you in the unique appeal and beauty of hundreds of inviting locales. Sample entries include the road to the spectacular ancient ruins in and around Angkor Wat in Cambodia; the Natchez Trace Parkway, along an ancient Native American trail through Mississippi; the scenic old coastal route from Dublin to Wexford in Ireland; an off-road dune drive in Dubai; the famous ocean views along the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia, Canada; the Winelands Route through South Africa's Western Cape; a drive among the incredible land formations in South Dakota's Badlands; and an archaeological tour through Syria. In addition, you'll find several fun Top Ten lists: skyscraping drives, Mediterranean island roads, African wildlife excursions, and more. Chapters organized by theme include Ultimate Road Trips, featuring famous drives such as Highway One down the California coast; Over Hill and Mountains; By Sea and Shore; The Road Less Traveled, highlighting unpaved an
Cape Cod Camino Way
Author: Peggy Jablonski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781006771309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What do you do when a pandemic forces you to stay close to home while current issues of social and racial justice are sparking a reckoning with the past? You seek answers right where you live by walking and discovering the stories of the people who came before you, and of those around you today.Over the summer of 2020, Peggy Jablonski walked through every town on Cape Cod, the peninsula she calls home, on a pilgrimage to reflect, listen, understand, and take action. The Cape Cod Camino Way is her story of asking questions, finding answers, and sharing what she has found. It is the story of building awareness toward true social justice action for the future. And it is a guide for creating a Camino Way walk of your own!Cape Cod Camino Way: Walking with a Purpose continues with its walks on Cape Cod to invite others to explore contemporary social issues from a historically accurate lens, and to enjoy the natural beauty of the Cape.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781006771309
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
What do you do when a pandemic forces you to stay close to home while current issues of social and racial justice are sparking a reckoning with the past? You seek answers right where you live by walking and discovering the stories of the people who came before you, and of those around you today.Over the summer of 2020, Peggy Jablonski walked through every town on Cape Cod, the peninsula she calls home, on a pilgrimage to reflect, listen, understand, and take action. The Cape Cod Camino Way is her story of asking questions, finding answers, and sharing what she has found. It is the story of building awareness toward true social justice action for the future. And it is a guide for creating a Camino Way walk of your own!Cape Cod Camino Way: Walking with a Purpose continues with its walks on Cape Cod to invite others to explore contemporary social issues from a historically accurate lens, and to enjoy the natural beauty of the Cape.