Author: Thomas HardenberghPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Gloucester Daily Times Building, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Author: Thomas HardenberghInaugural Address of the Mayor with the Annual Reports of the City of Gloucester ...
Author: Gloucester (Mass.)Maximus to Gloucester
Author: Charles OlsonPublisher:
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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History of the Town and City of Gloucester, Cape Ann, Massachusetts
Author: James Robert PringlePublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann
Author: John James BabsonPublisher:
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Category : Gloucester (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 646
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New Gloucester
Author: Thomas P. BlakePublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738565835
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Named by the proprietors from Gloucester, Massachusetts, New Gloucester began as a frontier town, as it was the most inland settlement in Maine at the time. Incorporated in 1774, the town has been called home by such notables as mapmaker and author Moses Greenleaf, artist D. D. Coombs, original proprietor of the town of Foxcroft Joseph E. Foxcroft, traveling minister Ephraim Stinchfield, Abraham Lincoln's secretary of treasury William Pitt Fessenden, and abolitionist Samuel Fessenden. Shaker societies were set up in nine states, but the Sabbathday Lake Society, founded in 1783, is now the only active Shaker community remaining. With a long history of lumber mills and farms, New Gloucester is also home to Pineland Farms, the former site of the Maine Home for the Feeble-Minded, established in 1908, and now a renovated 19-building campus and 5,000-acre working farm.
Official Congressional Directory
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1632
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Fever of War
Author: Carol R ByerlyPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 9780814799246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people in one year than the Great War killed in four, sickening at least one quarter of the world's population. In Fever of War, Carol R. Byerly uncovers the startling impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic on the American army, its medical officers, and their profession, a story which has long been silenced. Through medical officers' memoirs and diaries, official reports, scientific articles, and other original sources, Byerly tells a grave tale about the limits of modern medicine and warfare. The tragedy begins with overly confident medical officers who, armed with new knowledge and technologies of modern medicine, had an inflated sense of their ability to control disease. The conditions of trench warfare on the Western Front soon outflanked medical knowledge by creating an environment where the influenza virus could mutate to a lethal strain. This new flu virus soon left medical officers’ confidence in tatters as thousands of soldiers and trainees died under their care. They also were unable to convince the War Department to reduce the crowding of troops aboard ships and in barracks which were providing ideal environments for the epidemic to thrive. After the war, and given their helplessness to control influenza, many medical officers and military leaders began to downplay the epidemic as a significant event for the U. S. army, in effect erasing this dramatic story from the American historical memory.
The City of Gloucester, Massachusetts
Author: Board of Trade (Gloucester, Mass.)Publisher:
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Category : Beaches
Languages : en
Pages : 99
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Stamford '76
Author: JoeAnn HartPublisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 160938637X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In July 1976, a twenty-four-year-old white woman, Margo Olson, was found in a shallow grave in Stamford, Connecticut, with an arrow piercing through her heart. A few weeks later, Howie Carter, her black boyfriend, was killed by the police. Howie and Margo’s interracial relationship held a distorted mirror to the author’s own, with Howie’s best friend, Joe. Joe’s theory was that the police didn’t have any evidence to arrest Howie; operating on the assumption that the black man is always guilty, they killed him instead. Margo’s murder was never solved. Looking back at what might have happened in 1976, the author discovers a Bicentennial year steeped in recession, racism, and unrelenting violence. It was also a time of flourishing second-wave feminism, when young women were encouraged to do anything, if only they knew how. Stamford was in the midst of urban renewal, destroying historically black neighborhoods to create space for corporations escaping a bankrupt and dangerous New York City, just forty miles away. Organized crime followed the money, infiltrating Stamford at all levels. The author reveals how racism, misogyny, the economy, and corruption affected the young people’s daily lives, and helped lead Margo and Howie to their deaths.