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Author: Sanford Phippen
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1461741734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Set in an enchanting, mysterious, and sometimes very hard state, the selections in Best Maine Stories speak profoundly to the rest of America of a unique land of the heart.
Author: Sophia Swett
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2011-03-08
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 1257056859
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE stories of the smallest, the least important, the most favored by fate of the United States of the New World, are well worth the telling. It may therefore be wondered that those of Maine - historically the beginning of New England, the scene of the bloodiest Indian wars, the place where different European nations contended most fiercely for supremacy, and whose records are so dramatic that they read like folklore and legend rather than veritable history - should have been so little told. Many of those that have been told are to be found in histories that are out of print and forgotten, and in the musty folios of the historical societies, where the young people, at least, seldom look. Some not yet, and perhaps never to be read, have been written by glaciers and fossil remains on rocky headlands and in obscure caves. In remote graveyards strange foreign names and inscriptions hint of others.
Author: Lew-Ellyn Hughes
Publisher:
Published: 2016-12-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781940244839
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Bernard P. Fishman
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0884485862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Founded in 1836, the Maine State Museum is America’s oldest state museum and is known to many as “Maine’s Smithsonian” because of the breadth and diversity of its holdings—nearly a million objects covering every aspect of the state’s cultural, biological, and geological history—and the thousands of stories its collections tell. For this book the museum selected and photographed 112 artifacts and specimens that, together, tell an epic story of the land and its people from prehistoric times to the present. It is a story covering 395 million years, a story told with a walrus skull and fossils, tourmaline and spear points, mammoth tusks and bone fishhooks, Norse coins and caulking irons, militia flags and survey stakes, treaty documents and wooden tankards, a temperance banner and a locomotive, Joshua Chamberlain’s pistol and a cod tub trawl, a Lombard log hauler and a woman’s WWII welding outfit, L. L. Bean boots and German POW snowshoes, and many more objects from the museum’s collections. Short narratives written by museum curators are woven around each item—including photos of related objects—and the ensemble has been honed, polished, and introduced by museum director Bernard Fishman. This is a book that historians and Maine residents and visitors will delve into again and again, unearthing new treasures with each reading.
Author: Ann Beattie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-07-05
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 150111137X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is about more than geographical location of Maine, and certainly is not a picture postcard of the coastal state. Some characters have arrived by accident, others are trying to get out. The collection opens, closes, and is interlaced with stories that focus on Jocelyn, a wryly disaffected teenager living with her aunt and uncle while attending summer school. As in life, the narratives of other characters interrupt Jocelyn's, sometimes challenging, sometimes embellishing her view. --Publisher.
Author: Harry Gratwick
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2012-04-08
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1625840764
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of Maine has always been inextricably tied to its coastline. The sea first brought settlers, and the rich fishing and shipbuilding industries sustained growth. The Atlantic also connected Mainers to the rest of the world. Goods and ideas traveled the maritime routes that originated in populous Portland and more isolated places like Carver's Harbor and Deer Isle. From Searsport's sailing masters to the burning of Royal Tar, author Harry Gratwick relates the adventures of the skippers and their crews. Read about the search for the Smithy Boat and other tales from Maine's shipping lanes.
Author: George Arthur Cleveland
Publisher:
Published: 1915
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John McDonald
Publisher: Down East Books
Published: 2016-07-15
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 1608934470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →John McDonald has been making people laugh for decades with his humorous yarns poking fun at people from away, people from Maine, and life in general. Following up the wildly popular A Moose and a Lobster Walk into a Bar, the "Dean of Maine Storytelling" offers a new collection of stories that will make you laugh till you cry and cry till you laugh. Here's a new round of classic stories brimming with half truths, stretched truths, and wry observations about life in Maine.
