Author: Jeff ClewPublisher: Haynes Publishing
ISBN: 9780856962097
Category : Honda XL250 motorcycle
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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Honda XL 250-350 Trail Bikes Owners Workshop Manual
Author: Jeff ClewPublisher: Haynes Publishing
ISBN: 9780856962097
Category : Honda XL250 motorcycle
Languages : en
Pages : 119
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Dogtown
Author: Elyssa EastPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416587187
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
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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.
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2160
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WALNECK'S CLASSIC CYCLE TRADER, MARCH 1997
Author: Causey Enterprises, LLCPublisher: Causey Enterprises, LLC
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Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Cycle World
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2616
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A world list of books in the English language.
The Publishers' Trade List Annual
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2062
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Cycle World Magazine
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1832
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