Maine, a Peopled Landscape - 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, a Peopled Landscape write by Hugh T. French. This book was released on 1995. Maine, a Peopled Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Images that document the changes in -- and challenges of -- life in the real Maine.
Designing the Maine Landscape
Designing the Maine Landscape - 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 Designing the Maine Landscape write by Theresa Mattor. This book was released on 2009-06-16. Designing the Maine Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frederick Law Olmsted and others saw the landscape as it was and enhanced it, instead of imposing rigid design upon it. Groundbreaking landscape architects Beatrix Farrand and Fletcher Steele, among others, were brought to Maine by patrons, and the resulting public parks, campuses, institutional grounds, and private estates remain a priceless legacy. Drawn from a 10-year survey conducted by the Maine Olmsted Alliance, this book showcases those landscapes and celebrates their history and legacy.
The Oldest State: Portraits of a Maine Generation
The Oldest State: Portraits of a Maine Generation - 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 Oldest State: Portraits of a Maine Generation write by Jason Paige Smith. This book was released on 2019-05-24. The Oldest State: Portraits of a Maine Generation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Demographically speaking, Maine is the oldest state in the nation. In his book, The Oldest State: Portraits of a Maine Generation, photographer Jason Paige Smith has created compelling, storytelling images of people from around the state who are still out doing incredible things, despite their age. His book not only tells the stories of these inspiring individuals, but also gives great insight into the lives they've lived.
The Lobster Coast
The Lobster Coast - 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 Lobster Coast write by Colin Woodard. This book was released on 2005-04-26. The Lobster Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A thorough and engaging history of Maine’s rocky coast and its tough-minded people.”—Boston Herald “[A] well-researched and well-written cultural and ecological history of stubborn perseverance.”—USA Today For more than four hundred years the people of coastal Maine have clung to their rocky, wind-swept lands, resisting outsiders’ attempts to control them while harvesting the astonishing bounty of the Gulf of Maine. Today’s independent, self-sufficient lobstermen belong to the communities imbued with a European sense of ties between land and people, but threatened by the forces of homogenization spreading up the eastern seaboard. In the tradition of William Warner’s Beautiful Swimmers, veteran journalist Colin Woodard (author of American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good) traces the history of the rugged fishing communities that dot the coast of Maine and the prized crustacean that has long provided their livelihood. Through forgotten wars and rebellions, and with a deep tradition of resistance to interference by people “from away,” Maine’s lobstermen have defended an earlier vision of America while defying the “tragedy of the commons”—the notion that people always overexploit their shared property. Instead, these icons of American individualism represent a rare example of true communal values and collaboration through grit, courage, and hard-won wisdom.
The Northern Reach
The Northern Reach - 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 Northern Reach write by W.S. Winslow. This book was released on 2021-03-02. The Northern Reach available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A heart-wrenching first novel about the power of place and family ties, the weight of the stories we choose to tell, and the burden of those we hide Frozen in grief after the loss of her son at sea, Edith Baines stares across the water at a schooner, under full sail yet motionless in the winter wind and surging tide of the Northern Reach. Edith seems to be hallucinating. Or is she? Edith’s boat-watch opens The Northern Reach, set in the coastal town of Wellbridge, Maine, where townspeople squeeze a living from the perilous bay or scrape by on the largesse of the summer folk and whatever they can cobble together, salvage, or grab. At the center of town life is the Baines family, land-rich, cash-poor descendants of town founders, along with the ne’er-do-well Moody clan, the Martins of Skunk Pond, and the dirt farming, bootlegging Edgecombs. Over the course of the twentieth century, the families intersect, interact, and intermarry, grappling with secrets and prejudices that span generations, opening new wounds and reckoning with old ghosts. W. S. Winslow's The Northern Reach is a breathtaking debut about the complexity of family, the cultural legacy of place, and the people and experiences that shape us.
