Author: Amy Jenness
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626196261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nantucket is much more than beautiful beaches and sailboats. One day at a time, author Amy Jenness offers up quirky and fascinating stories of the people and events that shaped this remote island. On August 11, 1841, Frederick Douglass made his first antislavery speech at the Nantucket Atheneum. The Great Fire of July 13, 1846, devastated the island, forcing residents to rebuild what they lost. On December 5, 1981, a nor'easter stranded nearly two thousand visitors and forced seventeen pilot whales to come ashore. Read a story a day or month at a time. Celebrate an entire year of Nantucket history.
On This Day in Nantucket History
Author: Amy Jenness
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626196261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nantucket is much more than beautiful beaches and sailboats. One day at a time, author Amy Jenness offers up quirky and fascinating stories of the people and events that shaped this remote island. On August 11, 1841, Frederick Douglass made his first antislavery speech at the Nantucket Atheneum. The Great Fire of July 13, 1846, devastated the island, forcing residents to rebuild what they lost. On December 5, 1981, a nor'easter stranded nearly two thousand visitors and forced seventeen pilot whales to come ashore. Read a story a day or month at a time. Celebrate an entire year of Nantucket history.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626196261
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nantucket is much more than beautiful beaches and sailboats. One day at a time, author Amy Jenness offers up quirky and fascinating stories of the people and events that shaped this remote island. On August 11, 1841, Frederick Douglass made his first antislavery speech at the Nantucket Atheneum. The Great Fire of July 13, 1846, devastated the island, forcing residents to rebuild what they lost. On December 5, 1981, a nor'easter stranded nearly two thousand visitors and forced seventeen pilot whales to come ashore. Read a story a day or month at a time. Celebrate an entire year of Nantucket history.
The History of Nantucket
Author: Obed Macy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Sometimes Think of Me
Author: Betsy Tyler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Susan Boardman's unique embroideries tell the story of life on Nantucket while Betsy Tyler's biographies tell of the remarkable women who have made Nantucket their home.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Embroidery
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Susan Boardman's unique embroideries tell the story of life on Nantucket while Betsy Tyler's biographies tell of the remarkable women who have made Nantucket their home.
Hidden History of Nantucket
Author: Frank Morral & Barbara Ann White
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1626197059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Discover the story behind the Nantucket Civil War Monument, King Alcohol and more in Hidden History of Nantucket. The celebrated history of Nantucket's great whaling days often overshadows the fascinating changes that took place in the years following. Learn about some named on the Civil War Monument, some left off and some who may not belong. Meet the Cold Water Army of seven hundred schoolchildren who paraded against King Alcohol in hopes that the island would become a temperance oasis. Little remains of the bathing pavilion and water slide of the long-lost town of Coatue that once had big plans for expansion. With surprising facts and captivating tales, authors Frank Morral and Barbara Ann White explore these and other lost accounts of the faraway island.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1626197059
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Discover the story behind the Nantucket Civil War Monument, King Alcohol and more in Hidden History of Nantucket. The celebrated history of Nantucket's great whaling days often overshadows the fascinating changes that took place in the years following. Learn about some named on the Civil War Monument, some left off and some who may not belong. Meet the Cold Water Army of seven hundred schoolchildren who paraded against King Alcohol in hopes that the island would become a temperance oasis. Little remains of the bathing pavilion and water slide of the long-lost town of Coatue that once had big plans for expansion. With surprising facts and captivating tales, authors Frank Morral and Barbara Ann White explore these and other lost accounts of the faraway island.
The Enduring Shore
Author: Paul Schneider
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250135214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides -- and of its varied inhabitants -- becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1250135214
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Even before the Pilgrims landed in 1620, Cape Cod and its islands promised paradise to visitors, both native and European. In Paul Schneider's sure hands, the story of this waterland created by glaciers and refined by storms and tides -- and of its varied inhabitants -- becomes an irresistible biography of a place. Cape Cod's Great Beach, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket are romantic stops on Schneider's roughly chronological human and natural history. His book is a lucid and compelling collage of seaside ecology, Indians and colonists, religion and revolution, shipwrecks and hurricanes, whalers and vengeful sperm whales, glorious clipper ships and today's beautiful but threatened beaches. Schneider's superb eye for story and detail illuminates both history and landscape. A wonderful introduction, it will also appeal to the millions of people who already have warm associations with these magical places.
Collecting Nantucket
Author: Michael R. Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882201037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882201037
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
African-Americans on Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket
Author: Robert C. Hayden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Quaker Nantucket
Author: Robert J. Leach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963891075
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780963891075
Category : Nantucket (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nantucket; a History
Author: Robert Alexander Douglas-Lithgow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
In the Heart of the Sea
Author: Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007241798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007241798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued.