Books from Down East Books
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Good Fences: A Pictorial History of New England's Stone Walls
By William HubbellKevin Gardner of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, is a Renaissance man-actor, teacher, New Hampshire Public Radio writer/producer, author of a marvelous book on building with stone,The Granite Kiss, and, most importantly, from my point of view ...
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New England's Hidden Past: 360 Overlooked, Underappreciated and Misunderstood Landmarks
By Dan Landrigan, Leslie LandriganResearch Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, “Early State Banks in the United States: How Many Were There and When Did They Exist,” December 2005. National Park Service, “NRHP nomination for St. Albans Historic District”; ...
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Bar Harbor Babylon: Murder, Misfortune, and Scandal on Mount Desert Island
By Dan Landrigan, Leslie LandriganKennedy made his money as a banker, but he was not known for his business ethics. The Man Who Got the Money Kennedy was a Scot, born into a family of modest means in 1830 and raised in Glasgow, a booming Industrial Age city.
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Lighthouses of Maine
By Bill CaldwellAs he stood on shore, feeding the fire, the keeper spotted a big box or bundle being blown and swept toward shore. Thinking it might be wreckage, he grabbed a boathook, rigged a safety line around his waist, and waded into the breakers ...
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Wild Maine: Discoveries of a Wildlife Photographer
By Bill Silliker Jr.dtv OTHER FURBEARERS shore of the pond as it gathered its winter T he beaver swamback and forthalong the food supply. Living up to its reputation for busyness, the animal made many trips past our cabin every morning, hauling the limbs ...
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Double Guns and Custom Gunsmithing
By Steven Dodd HughesAgustino nodded and said, "Si, si," I pointed to the action and said, "Anson," for I had seen the word used in Italian gun books. "Si, si," he replied, smiling. ''Anson." Next to Agustino, a young man-nineteen years old, ...
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Remembering Dud Dean
By Walter MacdougallA pie-eyed crane, standin' on a dictionary, c'udn't have looked more rediculous. Thar she stood, swayin' from east to west, an' poutin' like a sixteen-year-old girl. An' she's forty years old, if- Wait a min-it, who am I to estimate the ...
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She Took to the Woods: A Biography and Selected Writings of Louise Dickinson Rich
By Alice ArlenAlso on Pine Island is a two-quart bottle of gin buried under a birch tree that the fire warden before this one left. When he went to go out in the fall he had to leave over the ice. But he had too much to carry.
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Maine Sporting Camp Cookbook
By Alice ArlenThe birch-bark wall lining in our guest log cabins is a unique thing here, and the lodge stone fireplace is billed as one of the largest in Maine. “Eagle Lake is in the very northern part of Maine, only eighteen miles from Canada.
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Silas, the Bookstore Cat
By Karen Trella MatherHe turned and was so surprised to see a big white cat rubbing against him that he almost dropped another book. “Wow! Hi, fella! You look like a snow cat. I bet you'd rather be outside, too. You don't have to read any dumb books.
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A Distant War Comes Home: Maine in the Civil War Era
By Donald A. Beattie, Rodney Cole, Charles WaughThe records do show that he first went to Mexico, and then to Canada, where he died at Clifton, Sept. 26, 1866. (Niagara Falls, Ontario, was called Clifton from 1856 to 1881.) Subsequently, he was interred in ...
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What's Cooking at Moody's Diner
By Nancy GenthnerI can barely imag ine what she was thinking, but it probably had nothing to do with going haying again. Right: The Moody boys in 194l(left to right): David, Dewey, Alvah (holding Gin ger), Harvey, Warren (not dressed up).
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Exploring the Spirit of Maine
By Karen BatignaniThe designation of cathedral is used by Episcopalians and Catholics to specify the seat of the diocesan bishop. St Luke's is the mother church of the Diocese of ... in Cape Elizabeth. The bell tower from the original design was not ...
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Art of Acadia
By David Little, Carl LittleNew resorts like Bar Harbor created, in historian Stephen Hornsby's words, an "extensive pleasure periphery,” replacing "the old mineral spas scattered through the Appalachians that had served planter and mercantile families during the ...
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Island Wars
By Michael EvansHis hormonal crush of the moment, Karen Franklin, was batting eyelids with George Silverson, and so Eddie knew that the time was ripe for the stunt to end all stunts. Stupid things are often done to impress others, but the truly ...
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A Life in Balance: Delicious Plant-Based Recipes For Optimal Health
By Meg WolffIt's mentioned in her latest book, Love, Sanae, a boutique cookbook filled with recipes and photographs. It's the most beautiful cookbook I own. Eric has cooked for many celebrities, including Madonna, Tobey Maguire, Sting, ...
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The 50 Greatest Players in Boston Red Sox History
By Robert W. CohenEarly in 1934, Washington owner Clark Griffith (the same man who once called Cronin a “bum”) introduced his young manager to his niece, Mildred Robertson, then a club secretary. Cronin and Robertson were married later that year, ...
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How Maine Changed the World
By Nancy GriffinA month later, with production in full swing, Walker came back with another offer, this time to buy the entire company. F.E. and F.O. had no intention of selling, but they had promised to give the tycoon a price, so they chose an ...
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Turning the Tide at Gettysburg: How Maine Saved the Union
By Jerry Desmond“The Boys Fought Like the Devil” Hall's 2nd maine Battery—July 1, 1863, 10:00-11:00 a.m. ... Captain James Abram Hall of Damariscotta took over command of the battery. Equipped with six new 3-inch ordnance guns, the battery moved across ...
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An Unbeaten Man
By Brendan RiellyThe dingy, yellow-lit hall was empty. He quickly shut his door and darted across the hall to the opposing room, lockpick in hand. Ten seconds later, he was inside the next room. The men were good. They didn't make a sound until their ...