United States - State & Local - New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
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Beacon Hill, Back Bay and the Building of Boston’s Golden Age
$21.99 Add to cartVenture back to the Boston of the 1800s, when Back Bay was just a wide expanse of water to the west of the Shawmut Peninsula and merchants peddled their wares to sailors along the docks. Witness the b… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 13 2010
- ISBN10: 1596291613
- Language: English
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Marblehead, Volume I
$39.99 Add to cartMarblehead, Massachusetts, is a proud community steeped in history, and many fine images of its past still survive today. Paintings from the colonial period and engravings from the mid-nineteenth cent… [more below]
- Author: Wright, John Hardy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: November 06 1996
- ISBN10: 1531642128
- Language: English
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Marblehead’s First Harbor: The Rich History of a Small Fishing Port
$34.99 Add to cartThe true beauty and fury of the Atlantic Ocean are known only by the rugged individuals who have made their living from the sea. In the seventy-five years from the American Revolution to the middle of… [more below]
- Author: Bishop, Hugh Peabody
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: November 18 2011
- ISBN10: 1540231143
- Language: English
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The Lighthouse Handbook New England and Canadian Maritimes (Fourth Edition): The Original Lighthouse Field Guide (Now Featuring the Most Popular Light
$24.99 Read moreExplore and experience all of the East Coast’s many lighthouses with the newly updated and expanded edition of The Original Lighthouse Field Guide.
Explore the living history of New England and Canadia
- Author: D’Entremont, Jeremy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: June 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1604339748
- Language: English
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Island Man: The Life and Letters of Jim Hardie
$24.95 Add to cartIsland Man portrays the life of Jim Hardie who lived and worked on Bear Island in the middle of Penobscot Bay, Maine, from 1910 until 1946. An orphaned child, at the end of the 19th century, Jim was s
- Author: Marvel, Lucilla Fuller
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 148
- Publish Date: July 14 2022
- ISBN10: 9798985875911
- Language: English
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Secret Connecticut: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
$22.50 Read moreDid you know that there’s a Connecticut hotel room with a real helicopter inside? Can you guess who inspired the character of Indiana Jones, who was president before George Washington, and who flew be
- Series: Secret
- Author: Mills Healy, Stasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 15, 2021
- ISBN10: 1681063050
- Language: English
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Hidden History of Maine
$31.99 Add to cartThe history of the Pine Tree State would be bare but for the contributions of hardy and impassioned individuals–generals, governors, settlers and activists whose lives of leadership make up the story… [more below]
- Author: Gratwick, Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1540220788
- Language: English
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Lost Bar Harbor
$18.95 Add to cartFrom the 1880s to the end of World War I, the fashionable resort of Bar Harbor attracted thousands of summer visitors with the money and leisure to pursue the simple life on a grand scale. Eighty-six … [more below]
- Author: Helfrich, G. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 30 2015
- ISBN10: 1608936023
- Language: English
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Maine Nursing: Interviews and History on Caring and Competence
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: L’Heureux, Juliana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1540203417
- Language: English
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Wicked Salem: Exploring Lingering Lore and Legends
$16.95 Add to cartIt’s no surprise that the historic Massachusetts seaport’s history is checkered with violence and heinous crimes. Originally called Naumkeag, Salem means “peace.” However, as its historical legacy dic
- Author: Baltrusis, Sam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1493037110
- Language: English
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Newport: The Artful City
$44.95 Add to cartAs one of the most historically intact cities in North
America, Newport, Rhode Island, has a cultural
and architectural heritage of national significance.
Each of the city’s districts has its own dist… [more below]- Author: Tschirch, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1911282697
- Language: English
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One August Morning
$18.00 Add to cartONE AUGUST MORNING THE TRUE STORY OF LIZZIE BORDEN BY TROY TAYLOR LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AXE… OR DID SHE? Lizzie Borden is a name that has lived in infamy. As everyone knows, she’s the young woman wh… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Troy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1892523957
- Language: English
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It Happened in Connecticut: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Nutmeg State History
$16.95 Add to cartIt Happened in Connecticut tells twenty-seven true tales of famous–and infamous–people and events from the state’s past, ranging from witchcraft trials to the Wiffle ball, from mass murder for profi
- Series: It Happened in
- Author: McCain, Diana Ross
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 149307038X
- Language: English
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New Hampshire Book of the Dead:: Graveyard Legends and Lore
$21.99 Add to cartNew Hampshire’s historic graveyards, from Portsmouth to North Conway, have bizarre and eerie stories to offer their visitors. Graveyards often invoke fear and superstition among the living, but the de… [more below]
- Author: Zwicker, Roxie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 1609497562
- Language: English
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The Myth and Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut: The Brownes of Salem and Absentee Land Ownership
$21.50 Add to cartThe Myth and Reality of Slavery in Eastern Connecticut: The Brownes of Salem and Absentee Land Ownership tells the story of absentee landlords and slavery in the region prior to the American Revolutio
- Author: Stark, Bruce P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 02 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218000899
- Language: English
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Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore
$21.99 Add to cartFind stories of magic and witches, sailors, pirates and shipwrecks and more in this book filled with folks with great stories and interesting lives.
Author and Marblehead Museum & Historical Society di
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Matthias Peterson, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 31 2007
- ISBN10: 1596292563
- Language: English
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Forgotten Tales of Vermont
$14.99 Add to cartThere’s more to Vermont than maple syrup and covered bridges. A book about Vermont’s history will likely bring to mind such topics as Abenaki Indians, the Green Mountain Boys and the state’s famed cov… [more below]
- Series: Forgotten Tales
- Author: Alexander, William M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1596294655
- Language: English
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God, War, and Providence: The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians Against the Puritans of New England
$18.99 Add to cartThe tragic and fascinating history of the first epic struggle between white settlers and Native Americans in the early seventeenth century: “a riveting historical validation of emancipatory impulses f… [more below]
- Author: Warren, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1501180428
- Language: English
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Once Upon a Time, The Mad River Valley
$23.99 Add to cartMore than a book, this is a time capsule of simpler times in the Mad River Valley. Photos of tiny villages, how we lived, buildings and the people of a bygone era will tug at nostalgic hearts and enli
- Author: Eurich, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: November 30 2023
- ISBN10: 9798989510603
- Language: English
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David Thomson: First Yankee
$12.00 Add to cartA man of many talents, Thomson was a builder, an explorer, a businessman and an apothecary. In 1620, when the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock, Thomson had already made numerous trips to the coast of
- Author: Newall, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1950381323
- Language: English
