Author : Mac Smith
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,91 MB
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1608933059
Meticulously researched, this book reveals the agonizing day-to-day wait of Mainers for news of what really happened on the Titanic, and tells the stories of Maine passengers from their boarding to the sinking and rescue; and, for those who survived, of their coming ashore in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It's a fascinating addition to the Titanic story.
Author : Elizabeth Raum
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0756564484
SOS! What would you do if you were stranded in the middle of the ocean, with no way to get home? How long could you survive? Find out what actual survivors did in these true tales of being lost at sea.
Author : Mac Smith
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1684752213
The story of Madeleine and Colonel John Jacob Astor is very much part of the story of Bar Harbor, Maine. The relatively poor Madeleine Force met Colonel Astor, the third richest man in the United States, in Bar Harbor in 1910. The vicious scandal after they're wedding caused the newlyweds to board the Titanic to return to America; the ensuing tragedy would claim the life of the colonel. Madeleine Astor returned to Bar Harbor after the Titanic disaster, where all eyes were on her, and where she was triumphant in claiming the role of social leader. In 1916, she remarried in the center of Bar Harbor, and gave up everything Astor. The story follows the 17 years of her second marriage, and then her scandalous third marriage. Madeleine, now in her 40s, married a penniless young boxer and her name erased from the Social Register after that. She died a lonely figure in her 40s. This new book from historian Mac Smith documents Madeleine's life in Bar Harbor and the Astor presence on Bar Harbor through Colonel Astor's family and the Kane family--Astor cousins who were prominent there. It puts Madeleine Astor's story in the context of Bar Harbor's Golden Age. In telling Madeleine Astor's story, the story of a changing Bar Harbor is also revealed.
Author : Mac Smith
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 168475013X
A visit from the President of the United States always brings with it excitement. In Maine, perhaps part of that excitement stems from the fact that presidents rarely visit the state–only 18 of the 45 presidents have visited Maine in the nation’s 244-year history. Many of these visits came at significant points in a presidency; and some visits had controversy, conflict, and ironic twists. For example: * During George Washington’s visit, Maine was not even Maine, it was part of Massachusetts. * President Ulysses S. Grant was the hero of the recently ended Civil War. * President Richard Nixon was met with protests that saw Mainer battle Mainer. * President Carter spent the night of his visit with a common, ordinary Maine family, in their modest home. * President Trump’s visit came in the middle of a global pandemic. Each of Maine's presidential visits left us with great stories, and a detailed view of Maine's lively history.
Author : Weldon M. Clarkson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 36,76 MB
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Discovering Grace on Appleton Ridge follows the adventures of Hal and Liz Tuttle as they discover life in Downeast Maine. Nothing in their past could have prepared them for the hilarious and quirky characters they meet in their new calling to Appleton Community Church. This lighthearted and humorous story takes on a more serious tone when a distraught young woman contemplates suicide. Fortunately, the new minister and his wife just happen to be in the right place at the right time. Averted tragedy leads to redemption when a rescued soul discovers grace, forgiveness, and the embrace of God and a church family. Readers will smile, laugh, and shed tears of joy as they witness lives changed by the power of love.
Author : Geoffrey Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2021-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1107181569
The new edition of The Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in Classical Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages and the early modern period, down to the wars of the twenty-first century in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria.
Author : Robert Louis Demayo
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 21,84 MB
Release : 2011-12-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780991118342
This a fictionalized account of a true story - the tale of how two rough Maine woodsmen took a young Theodore Roosevelt under their wing in 1878 and introduced him to the beautiful but unforgiving woodlands of the Northeast. Under their guidance, the frail but strong-willed New Yorker becomes a worthy outdoorsman, an experience which significantly shaped the world view of the man poised to become the 26th President of the United States thirteen years later.
Author : Andrew Witmer
Publisher : UMass + ORM
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2022-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 161376944X
Winner of an Award of Excellence, American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) In 1822, settlers pushed north from Massachusetts and other parts of New England into Monson, Maine. On land taken from the Penobscot people, they established prosperous farms and businesses. Focusing on the microhistory of this village, Andrew Witmer reveals the sometimes surprising ways that this small New England town engaged with the wider world across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Townspeople fought and died in distant wars, transformed the economy and landscape with quarries and mills, and used railroads, highways, print, and new technologies to forge connections with the rest of the nation. Here and Everywhere Else starts with Monson’s incorporation in the early nineteenth century, when central Maine was considered the northern frontier and over 90 percent of Americans still lived in rural areas; it ends with present-day attempts to revive this declining Maine town into an artists’ colony. Engagingly written, with colorful portraits of local characters and landmarks, this study illustrates how the residents of this remote place have remade their town by integrating (and resisting) external influences.
Author : Neil Rolde
Publisher : Gardiner, Me. : Tilbury House
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN :
The story of Maine's Native people, with many generous voices sharing their stories, hopes, and fears.
Author : Webster Griffin Tarpley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0930852885
Remember compassionate conservatism and a humble foreign policy? You should. Tarpley reveals that the Obama puppet's advisors are even more radical reactionaries than the neo-cons. Check out the rave reviews on Amazon: "a crash course in political science". Distils three decades of political insight and astute analysis, from a unique perspective.
