Hidden History of Maine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden History of Maine write by Harry Gratwick. This book was released on 2012-08-28. Hidden History of Maine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover 400 years of New England history you won’t find in guidebooks in this collection of true stories and colorful characters from The Pine Tree State. Maine wouldn’t be the magical place it is today without the contributions of little-known individuals whose inspiring and adventuresome lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Journalist and Maine historian Harry Gratwick presents vividly detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to ever win a Major League Baseball batting championship, Hidden History of Maine reveals the men and women who made history without making it into history books.
Maine
Maine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maine write by Richard William Judd. This book was released on 1995. Maine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first comprehensive history of Maine to be published in decades, Maine: The Pine Tree State surveys the region's rich history from prehistoric times to the early 1990s. Drawing on a team of twenty-six scholars with a professional interest in Maine's past, the book features fresh research and new interpretations of even familiar periods such as the Civil War. The chapter authors are respected authorities in Maine history from the fields of archaeology, anthropology, ethnic studies, and the various sub-disciplines of history: political, cultural, economic, labor, military, maritime. Certain themes recur from chapter to chapter and across historical periods. For example, larger structural changes in the nation - market trends, wars, economic fluctuations, demographic flows - strongly affected the everyday world of Maine people. Other prominent themes are the importance of geography and the environment in shaping Maine's economy and culture. Caught up at times in national events, Maine has also led the nation in important ways. Its fishing industry fed and its textile industry clothed the nation's people. Maine loggers contributed heavily to the technologies used in cutting, hauling, and driving timber. Maine excelled in the production of wooden ships and supplied the expertise to sail them. In the nineteenth century Maine's political leaders were among the most powerful in the nation, and Maine's contribution to social reform attracted national recognition.
Hidden History of Bangor
Hidden History of Bangor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden History of Bangor write by Wayne E. Reilly. This book was released on 2013-06-25. Hidden History of Bangor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When celebrity aviator Harry Atwood made the first aeroplane flight over Bangor in 1912, observers were astonished. It was a sign that the city had recovered from the great fire of 1911 that had destroyed its downtown the year before. While some events are well known, many stories from turn-of-the-century Bangor have been lost to time. In this collection, local author Wayne E. Reilly brings some of the most exciting and intriguing hidden Bangor tales to light--from a gas explosion that left a thirty-foot crater in the middle of downtown to the escape of a mayor's pet pig. Join Reilly as he reveals the hidden stories from Queen City history.
The Wreck of the Isidore
The Wreck of the Isidore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Wreck of the Isidore write by Harvey Reid. This book was released on 2009-11-01. The Wreck of the Isidore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Hidden History of Midcoast Maine
Hidden History of Midcoast Maine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hidden History of Midcoast Maine write by Patricia M. Higgins. This book was released on 2014-02-18. Hidden History of Midcoast Maine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the Age of Discovery and the earliest settlement of America, Midcoast Maine has played surprising roles in America's history. Europeans might not have survived in the New World without the Kennebec beaver trade, the lessons of the Popham Colony and the friendships Maine's first settlers built. Experience the storied survival of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's military grandfather in precarious Revolutionary Maine and meet resilient, creative, noteworthy and notorious Midcoasters. Pat Higgins recounts Puritan power plays, the sea fight between the Boxer" and the "Enterprise," duels, U-boats and much more. Discover the fascinating and quirky bits of history that have remained hidden along the rocky coast from Portland to Acadia--until now.."
