No Palm Trees on Cuttyhunk
Author : Jeffrey Denning
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Page : pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
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ISBN : 9780578874784
Author : Jeffrey Denning
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 44,25 MB
Release : 2021-06-30
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ISBN : 9780578874784
Author : Jeffrey Denning
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Page : 300 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
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ISBN : 9780578874777
A teenage boy's coming-of-age memoir and love letter to the Cape Cod Island of Cuttyhunk. When fourteen-year-old Geoff gets the opportunity to travel to and camp on the island of Cuttyhunk during the summer of 1959, it is a chance for adventure and to escape his controlled home life. Little does he know that the tiny Cape Cod island and its inhabitant's way of life will become part of his soul and help heal wounds he didn't even know he had. Geoff navigates his friendship with his co-adventurer Peter, learns to sail, lands his first job and experiences first love on the Massachusetts island. The extraordinary characters he befriends, like the foul-mouthed, knife-wielding chef who ends up being his fierce advocate, shape Geoff's adolescence. Just as he begins to think and make decisions for himself, his time on the island comes to an end. Geoff realizes that his troubled relationship with his father is driven by something more powerful than he can fathom and he wonders if his father will even recognize him when he gets home after his transformative summer.
Author : Cuttyhunk Historical Society
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,60 MB
Release : 2002-02-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439611378
Five of the Elizabeth Islands-Naushon, Pasque, Nashawena, Cuttyhunk, and Penikese-date from 1602, when the Englishman Bartholomew Gosnold explored the waters of Vineyard Sound and Buzzards Bay aboard his ship the Concord. Although the small encampment Gosnold built on Cuttyhunk for trading with the Wampanoags was used for only a few weeks, journals kept by two crew members have survived and give vivid accounts of that voyage. Naushon, Pasque, and Nashawena are currently privately owned. Penikese, once a leper colony, is now the site of a school for troubled boys. Cuttyhunk is now the only island with a village center and easy public access. Captivating photographs and postcards in Cuttyhunk and the Elizabeth Islands trace the special experience of island life from the unspoiled habitat of Gosnold's time to the first invasion of summer folk in the 1950s. These vintage images not only show how the islands' rock-strewn landscapes reflect the hard lives of the early islanders but also attest to the pleasures of picnics and boating as tourism and summer residents brought a modest degree of prosperity. Many previously unpublished photographs of large estates on Naushon portray a life of privilege. Views of Penikese depict the barren dormitories of the lepers who lived out their lives there.
Author : United States. President (1801-1809 : Jefferson)
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Page : 510 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 1902
Category : America
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Author : J. Michael Lennon
Publisher : Etruscan Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 46,43 MB
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1736494694
This book of essays by Norman Mailer’s biographer, Dr. J. Michael Lennon, collect personal and literary reminiscences, insights, and investigations from the last half century. Through the rising action of his life in literature, Lennon’s remembrances track the influence not only of his literary pater familias, Norman Mailer, but his actual father, a booze-bitten blue-collar bibliophile with his own reputation for genius, and how together these mentors forged and focused the 20/20 literary vision Lennon takes to the work of some of the greatest writers of the Twentieth Century, from Baldwin and Bishop to Didion and DeLillo and, not least, Mailer himself.
Author : Charlton Ogburn
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Page : 922 pages
File Size : 20,60 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Presents evidence to support the theory that Shakespeare's work is actually that of the 17th Earl of Oxford, Edward De Vere.
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Page : 2188 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2001-01
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Author : Henry Sweetser Burrage
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Page : 496 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1906
Category : America
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Author : Brian Vallée
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,4 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Abused wives
ISBN : 9781554700028
November 20, 2007 marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the "not guilty" verdict in Jane Hurshman's first-degree murder trial for killing her common-law husband, Billy Stafford, in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. This updated edition combines into a single volume all previous publications telling the complete story of Jane's life and death: Life with Billy (1986); Life after Billy (1993) and Life and Death with Billy (1998). Jane Hurshman's not guilty verdict led to acceptance of Battered Wife Syndrome as a legal defence in Canadian courts.
Author : Alfred Lewis Pinneo Dennis
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Page : 598 pages
File Size : 12,96 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Acadia
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John Stackpole was lieutenant in a scouting party of 90 men to search the country near the Kennebec River, period covered July 3-31, 1755.