Author: Irene M. Drago
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ISBN: 9781633811188
Category : Bath (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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Drawn to its rich maritime history, Ellie and Ty Malone purchase a grand home in Bath, Maine, and discover the story of a prominent shipbuilding family who lived there in the 1800s. Daughters of Long Reach explores love and loss through the lens of multiple families who are separated by time but connected by the rolling tides of the Kennebec River. Anna Malone, a modern-day daughter, arrives in Bath to heal and to begin to write again after losing her heart and her work to a charming, but duplicitous, filmmaker. Stella Rose leaves Bath in the 1940s to nurse wounded sailors, but she finds love in the middle of war and may never go home again. Thomas Goss, a sea captain at the turn of the 20th century, comes back to Bath to save his soul, but he almost loses it completely. Across three centuries, Long Reach ties hearts and souls together with a sailor's knot.
Author: Mary R. Calvert
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Author: Jon F. Hall
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738564777
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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The Upper Kennebec Valley is one of the most important gateways to Maineas Great North Woods and has, for over 200 years, attracted those who love the wilderness, lakes, mountains, and streams. The Upper Kennebec Valley Volume II begins, once again, at The Forks, where the East Branch of the Kennebec and the Dead River unite to form the Kennebec. The area has long been dominated by logging and tourism trades. Starting with the days of horses and oxen, when loggers and asportsa came to the woods by foot and wagon to the coming of the railroad and the automobile, we see the growth of these small towns and the hardworking loggers, daring river drivers, sport hunters and fishermen, and those who guided and hosted them. Early scenes of the daily lives of avalley folka enjoying local parades, picnics, reunions, and sporting events come alive within these pages.
Author: Robert Coffin
Publisher: Down East Books
ISBN: 1461744695
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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Originally published in 1937 as part of the Rivers of America series, this book has become a classic of Maine literature. And only Robert P. Tristram Coffin could have woven this story of the majestic Kennebec and the people who lived beside it, from the Popham Plantation in the early 1600s to the 1930s. His intimate knowledge of the Maine landscape, his love for ships and the men who sailed them, and his warm feeling for the people who farmed the Kennebec's banks enrich every page.
Author: Henry D. Kingsbury
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Category : Kennebec County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Author: William A. Baker
Publisher:
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Category : Bath (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Author: Mary R. Calvert
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Category : Abenaki Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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"The Abenaki Indians called him "patlihoz," meaning Black Robe. The French in Quebec thought of him as a saintly man, possessed of great learning and dedication. The English in Boston called him a bloody incendiary, and were convinced that he was inciting Indian attacks on their frontier settlements in Maine. The controversy continues today: What was Sebastian Rale really like? In this volume Mary Calvert gathers together the complete story of Father Rale. Starting with his birth in 1652 and his upbringing near the border of Switzerland, she follows the trail of evidence leading through his Jesuit education and years of teaching in France; his assignment to the New World; his first meeting with Abenakis in Canada; and his perilous journey to far-off Illinois. Upon his return from the Illinois mission, Father Rale was assigned to the village of the Norridgewock Indians on the Kennebec River in Maine. Here he would live for most of the remaining thirty years of his life, preaching and teaching, corresponding with his family in France and his superiors in Quebec, and compiling a massive dictionary of the Abenaki language for which he is best known today. Death came suddenly August 23, 1724, when Rale was killed along with scores of his beloved Abenakis in an English raid. The story in largely told by Father Rale himself, in excerpts from his published and unpublished letters, and passages from his dictionary. The English point of view is shown through excerpts from colonial documents, and the author has sketched in the background of the French and English settlement of North America. The story is a dramatic one, set against the backdrop of bloody Indian wars and brave pioneer families, heartbreaking tales of captivity, religious clashes, tragic misunderstandings, adventures and narrow escapes that seem stranger than fiction. Above all, there is the intimate picture she draws of the proud Maine Abenakis of the colonial era, and the educated man who shared his life and soul with them. The story of Sebastian Rale is truly a Maine epic." -- Publisher's description
Author: Samuel Lane BOARDMAN
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Author: William A. Baker
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Category : Bath (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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Author: Harold Kilbrith Barrows
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Category : Kennebec River (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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