A History of Block Island
Author : Samuel Truesdale Livermore
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Block Island (R.I. : Island)
ISBN :
Author : Samuel Truesdale Livermore
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 28,90 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Block Island (R.I. : Island)
ISBN :
Author : Robert M. Downie
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 28,66 MB
Release : 1998-12-01
Category : Block Island (R.I. : Island)
ISBN : 9780965898331
Block Island, in the Atlantic Ocean off the southern coast of New England, is further from other land -- from the mainland or other islands -- than any other town along the 1,800 mile eastern coast of the United States. Isolated from neighbors, with no harbor until the late 19th century, Block Island evolved differently. Each chapter of Block Island, The Sea stands alone, providing one or more stories, and the scholarly research to go with it, about this little town -- currently with 850 year-round inhabitants whose singular preference is to be completely surrounded by salt water. Subjects include fishing, piracy, lighthouses, hurricane. shipwrecks and more. Fully indexed, and with over 200 images.
Author : Capt. Al Anderson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 24,81 MB
Release : 2012-07-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1477138854
This is the fishing book every game fisher should have! ISLAND STRIPERS is a result of the author's 45 years of fishing Block Island's waters and his offered contentions supported by science. This effort is filled with insights into its history and unique geology, its tides and currents, early native fishing, updates in striper biology and evolution, detailed day and night, surf and boat angling, striper diseases, major action spots and techniques, popular baits, recent record-breaking fish, fly and surf fishing interviews, forage species, various tagging agencies, results of his striper tagging, vessels used, and much, much more.... Early in 2012 he was selected for induction into the IGFA's World Fishing Hall of Fame, a result of his career tagging nearly 60,000 documented game fish for science, thanks to help from clients and friends. Of these 43,000 were striped bass for the American Littoral Society (ALS), the remainder for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which included bluefin tuna, various billfish and shark species. Back in 2011 SPORTFISHING magazine commenced their annual Making A Difference (MAD) Campaign, to identify fifty individuals nationwide who made significant contributions to sport fishing. Capt. Al Anderson was announced as one of their five winners. He is a well-known New England charter skipper, author, lecturer and conservationist, long recognized for his ethic of marking game fish for science.
Author : Robert M. Downie
Publisher :
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Block Island (R.I. : Island)
ISBN : 9780979630736
The most extraordinary collection of photos of any small town in the entire United States. Block Island, in the Atlantic Ocean off the south coast of New England, has a photographic history of 145 years. No other community could produce such an array of images from both land and sea. Volume 2 of The Block Island History of Photography adds more than 400 images to America’s history, from shipwrecks and lighthouses, steamboats and tourists, World Wars 1 & 2, Prohibition era fun, into hard times, through two strong hurricanes, and yet more fun. The earlier Volume 1, from 1870 to the 1910s, contains another 380 images. This is the face of quiet America most people missed — and most, once lived, would miss.
Author : Christopher J Dacey
Publisher : Out of the Past Mysteries
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 11,21 MB
Release : 2021-05-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Its October 1970. Out of work police detective Duke Jameson is asked to investigate the mysterious deaths of two male students at the University of Rhode Island. As soon as Jameson arrives on campus, hidden forces begin to work against him. A missing professor, a corrupt sheriff, an eccentric millionaire, campus drug pushers, and more than one beautiful woman draw him into the Block Island Mystery
Author :
Publisher : Regional Photos
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781933212418
"With his gallery on the wharf and thirty-plus years on the island, Malcolm Greenaway is the Rembrandt of Block Island photographers."
Author : David Lee Tucker
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2019-10-02
Category :
ISBN : 9781088546703
The Mohegan Bluffs of Block Island were named after a band of Mohegan Indians who came to pillage Manisses Island (Block Island). However, they were destroyed by the local Manissean Indians at the Island's tallest bluffs, located on the Southeast corner of the Island. I have heard many versions of this story over the years. But, even after hearing it for the first time when I was eleven years old, I wondered about how it all happened. Why did the two tribes fight in the first place? What did it look like? Why did they come to fight at that location? Did the Manisseans literally push or throw the Mohegans off the bluffs?This book takes what little documented information is available and pieces together a fictional account of how this action might have taken place.
Author : Meg Mitchell Moore
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,91 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062840088
"One of my own favorite writers." –Elin Hilderbrand Named a Best Beach Read of Summer by Vulture, PureWow, She Reads and Women.com J. Courtney Sullivan’s Maine meets the works of Elin Hilderbrand in this delicious summer read involving three strangers, one island, and a season packed with unexpected romance, well-meaning lies, and damaging secrets. Anthony Puckett was a rising literary star. The son of an uber-famous thriller writer, Anthony’s debut novel spent two years on the bestseller list and won the adoration of critics. But something went very wrong with his second work. Now Anthony’s borrowing an old college’s friend’s crumbling beach house on Block Island in the hopes that solitude will help him get back to the person he used to be. Joy Sousa owns and runs Block Island’s beloved whoopie pie café. She came to this quiet space eleven years ago, newly divorced and with a young daughter, and built a life for them here. To her customers and friends, Joy is a model of independence, hard-working and happy. And mostly she is. But this summer she’s thrown off balance. A food truck from a famous New York City brand is roving around the island, selling goodies—and threatening her business. Lu Trusdale is spending the summer on her in-laws’ dime, living on Block Island with her two young sons while her surgeon husband commutes to the mainland hospital. When Lu’s second son was born, she and her husband made a deal: he’d work and she’d quit her corporate law job to stay home with the boys. But a few years ago, Lu quietly began working on a private project that has becoming increasingly demanding on her time. Torn between her work and home, she’s beginning to question that deal she made. Over the twelve short weeks of summer, these three strangers will meet and grow close, will share secrets and bury lies. And as the promise of June turns into the chilly nights of August, the truth will come out, forcing each of them to decide what they value most, and what they are willing to give up to keep it.
Author : Judith Arnold
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 18,73 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781560543558
Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 13,24 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780874834840
Discusses buried treasures along the Atlantic coast, describing the types of treasures and attempts to retreive them