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A History Lover’s Guide to New Hampshire
$24.99 Read moreUniquely New Hampshire
New Hampshire has always been fiercely independent, and its history, museums and festivals reflect that trait. Roy Campanella and Don Newcombe broke baseball’s color barrier with
- Series: History Lovers Guide
- Author: Bailey, Kathleen D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1467155985
- Language: English
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The Barnes Museum and Homestead
$24.99 Read moreVictorian Era Treasures
Once the center of bolt manufacturing in the United States, Southington has been affectionately called Connecticut’s “City of Progress.” At the center of this progress was Amon
- Author: Volpe, Christina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158429
- Language: English
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Gilded Age Murder & Mayhem in the Berkshires
$31.99 Add to cartMurder and dark deeds shadowed the extravagance of the Gilded Age in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. In the summer of 1893, a tall and well-dressed burglar plundered the massive summer mansions of th… [more below]
- Author: Amelinckx, Andrew K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: October 12 2015
- ISBN10: 1540212483
- Language: English
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The Gritty Berkshires: A People’s History from the Hoosac Tunnel to Mass MoCA
$34.00 Add to cartAs The Gritty Berkshires makes clear, Massachusetts’ westernmost county is not just art museums, music festivals and beautiful scenery. For generations of working class families who have lived in the
- Author: Seider, Maynard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: April 13 2019
- ISBN10: 188704339X
- Language: English
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Sexing Chickens
$22.50 Add to cartThe Town of Enfield, Connecticut is rich with the kind of stories other towns can only dream about – from a purported shark attack in a Freshwater Swimming Hole (called Twenty-Foot) to a California Mi
- Author: Sorenson, Peter F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987773918
- Language: English
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Death on Katahdin: And Other Misadventures in Maine’s Baxter State Park
$18.95 Add to cartThis fascinating addition to the North Woods canon looks at the variety of ways people have met their death on Maine’s highest and most remote mountain. It’s all here, from falls, exposure, and cardia… [more below]
- Author: Minetor, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1608934179
- Language: English
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Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
$36.99 Add to cartIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the A… [more below]
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: June 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257002
- Language: English
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Massachusetts State Police Salisbury Beach
$24.95 Read more- Author: Guilmette, Ronald J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1956027424
- Language: English
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Countdown 1960: The Behind-The-Scenes Story of the 312 Days That Changed America’s Politics Forever
$39.00 Add to cartA riveting new work and a fresh take on 1960 and the dramatic 11 months leading up to a deeply relevant election for the ages
It’s January 2nd, 1960: the day that Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy- Author: Wallace, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9798217016457
- Language: English
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A Brief History of St. Johnsbury
$21.99 Add to cartTucked away in the dark forests of Vermont’s Northeast
Kingdom, St. Johnsbury was mostly unbroken wilderness
when first chartered in 1786. Swinging axes soon made way
for the burgeoning split-level town,… [more below]- Series: Brief Histories (Paperback)
- Author: Pearl, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596294957
- Language: English
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The Old Leather Man: Historical Accounts of a Connecticut and New York Legend
$35.00 Read moreFascinating documentation of a mysterious figure
In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Conn
- Series: Garnet Books
- Author: DeLuca, Dan W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0819568627
- Language: English
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Tall Trees, Tough Men
$26.99 Add to cartThe New England loggers and river drivers were a unique breed of men. Working with their axes and peaveys through Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, they contributed mightily to the development of the… [more below]
- Series: Vivid, Anecdotal History of Logging and Log-Driving in New E
- Author: Pike, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393319172
- Language: English
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Conifers of the New England-Acadian Forest: A Cultural History
$24.95 Add to cartWhy did white pine help spark the American Revolution? How did balsam aid the development of germ theory? What does hemlock have to do with making leather? In Conifers of the New England-Acadian
- Author: Keating, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1625347871
- Language: English
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Death in Early New England: Rites, Rituals and Remembrance
$23.99 Read moreDeath in early New England came early and often during those harsh first decades of settlement.
Epidemics, hunger, accidents and childbirth contributed to a heavy toll in New England. Disease in some
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Geake, Robert a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154784
- Language: English
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Cape Cod Libraries: A History and Guide
$23.99 Read moreCape Cod is home to thirty four libraries, each with its own wonderful history. One library was named for an extraordinarily feisty woman. Two others burned down during blizzards. A French Marquis fun… [more below]
- Series: History & Guide
- Author: Hogan, Gerree
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 22 2023
- ISBN10: 146715265X
- Language: English
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Sermons in Stone: The Stone Walls of New England and New York
$16.95 Read moreWhat do we actually know about stone walls? about the people who built them, and why? Stone walls are not simply monuments to the skill of Yankee farmers. The historical record makes clear that many w… [more below]
- Author: Allport, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1581571658
- Language: English
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Moxie: Maine in a Bottle
$16.95 Read moreIn this compendium of all things Moxie, Maine author Jim Baumer shows us why this soft drink has garnered such a loyal and vocal following. Through history, photos, festivals, and more, Moxie: Maine i… [more below]
- Author: Baumer, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 15 2019
- ISBN10: 160893683X
- Language: English
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The Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Fire: A Boston Tragedy
$23.99 Read moreOn November 28, 1942, fire roared through Boston’s famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub during what was supposed to be a high-spirited Saturday night. By midnight, more than five hundred people were dead, d
- Series: Disaster
- Author: Schorow, Stephanie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1467152870
- Language: English
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Cape Cod and the Civil War: The Raised Right Arm
$21.99 Read moreFar from the glistening waters and gray-shingled villages of Cape Cod were the bloody front lines of the American Civil War. During this era, Cape Cod recruiting officers often urged soldiers to “rais… [more below]
- Series: Civil War
- Author: Miller, Stauffer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 26 2010
- ISBN10: 1596299843
- Language: English
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Bigfoot in Maine
$24.99 Read moreThe dark woods of Maine have been the setting for many eerie and unexplained events, none more captivating than sightings of a giant hominid known as Bigfoot. But what makes this corner of New England… [more below]
- Author: Souliere, Michelle Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 24 2021
- ISBN10: 1467147486
- Language: English
