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Allagash River Towboat: A Maine Logging Adventure
by Jack Schneider
Paperback from Down East Books
Book Published: July, 2003

An Image of Monhegan, Platinum Prints
by John Kleinhans
(Paperback)

Ancient Yarmouth & North Yarmouth Maine 1636-1936: A History
by William Hutchinson Rowe
Listed under Maine Genealogy

Baxter State Park and the Allagash River (Images of America: Maine)
by Frank H. Sleeper
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: April, 2002

Boston and Maine Locomotives (Images of Rail)
by Bruce D. Heald
Listed under American Railroads

Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the Nottingham Galley
by Kenneth Roberts, Jack Bales, Richard Warner
Paperback from University Press of New England
Book Published: May, 1996

A Bride's Passage: Susan Hathorn's Year Under Sail
by Catherine Petroski
Paperback from Northeastern University Press
Book Published: June, 1997

Coastal Maine: A Maritime History
by Roger F. Duncan, Earle G. Barlow, Kathy Bray, Consuelo E. Hanks
Paperback from Countryman Pr
Book Published: June, 2002

Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island : Atlas of Historical County Boundaries
by John H. Long (Editor)
Listed under New England Genealogy

Down on the Island, Up on the Main: A Recollected History of South Bristol, Maine
by Ellen Vincent
Book Description: When Ellen Vincent set out to document a working town’s history, she hoped to find a place where the families and traditions were part of a generations-old continuum. South Bristol, Maine, a coastal village that spans shore and islands, is just such a place. Sometimes idyllic, at other times laden with hardship, this was a community where self-sufficiency was a virtue and neighbors were as family.

The oral history project that Vincent began grew as school children became involved in learning their parents’ and grandparents’ stories, a local historical society was begun, and a culminating exhibit of photos and artifacts and reminiscences drew just the response Vincent had hoped for: mixed-generation groups of people clustered around the photos and stories, putting their fingers onto them, talking and laughing and teary-eyed. Many wrote down their own memories and pinned them up on the walls. The community had come together to create a collective memory of place, spoken in the words of its people. Their strength of character and unflagging humor has carried them through many decades, and it resonates in the cadence of their tales. 

Now between the covers of a book, this recollected history and its 300 vintage photographs brings you the heritage and stories of one town—but they are stories and images that will echo up and down the coast of Maine. 

Paperback from Tilbury House Publishers
Book Published: May, 2003

A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs 1860-1920, Part I
by W. H. Bunting
Paperback from Tilbury House Publishers
Book Published: June, 2003

A Day's Work: A Sampler of Historic Maine Photographs, 1860--1920, Part II
by W. H. Bunting
Book Description: These extraordinary collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal to anyone interested in Maine's past. Spend an afternoon with either volume of A Day's Work, and you'll make discoveries that will change how you look at Maine's passing scene. Bunting has a knack for spotting the unusual in a photograph, or some minor detail that, in fact, tells a major story about the how and why. From granite quarry operations to an itinerant cobbler in a sailing scow to hootchie cootchie dancers at the state fair to deepwater ships, his page-long captions place these images in social and economic context—but this is not dry history. His research has uncovered a wealth of fascinating, often quirky detail (did you know that mummy wrappings were imported from Egypt for Maine papermaking?), and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition.
Paperback: 384 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.93 x 10.42 x 8.56
Publisher: Tilbury House Publishers; ; (July 1, 2000)
ISBN: 0884482073

Directory of the Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700
by Frank R. Holmes
Listed under New England Genealogy

Fly Rod Crosby: The Woman Who Marketed Maine
by Julia A. Hunter, Earle G., Jr Shettleworth
(Paperback)

The General Textile Strike of 1934: From Maine to Alabama
by John A. Salmond
Hardcover from Univ of Missouri Pr (Txt)
Book Published: August, 2002

Ghosts on the Coast of Maine
by Carol Olivieri Schulte, Jo Going
Paperback from Down East Books
Book Published: July, 1996

The Great Lobster War
by Ron Formisano, Ronald P. Formisano
Paperback from Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Book Published: April, 1997

The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
by Helen Nearing, Scott Nearing
Paperback from Schocken Books
Book Published: January, 1990

Henry David Thoreau : A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers / Walden; Or, Life in the Woods / The Maine Woods / Cape Cod (Library of America)
by Henry David Thoreau, Robert F. Sayre
Listed under Henry David Thoreau

In the Footsteps of Thoreau: 25 Historic and Nature Walks on Cape Cod
by Adam Gamble, Matthew Gamble
Listed under Maine Travel Books

The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine's Wildlands
by Neil Rolde, Kristen Read Boettcher, Rosemary Mosher
Paperback from Tilbury House Publishers
Book Published: June, 2003

Islands in Time: A Natural and Cultural History of the Islands of the Gulf of Maine
by Philip W. Conkling
Paperback from Down East Books
Book Published: July, 1999

Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast: Penobscot Bay
by Charles B. McLane, Carol Evarts McLane
Paperback from Tilbury House Publishers
Book Published: June, 2003

Islands of Maine: Where America Really Began
by Bill Caldwell
Paperback from Down East Books
Book Published: October, 2001

Joshua Chamberlain: A Hero's Life and Legacy
by John J. Pullen
Hardcover from Stackpole Books
Book Published: May, 1999

Lost Bar Harbor
by Gladis Oneil, G. W. Helfrich, Gladys O'Neil
Paperback from Down East Books
Book Published: June, 1982

Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum
by Christopher B. Crosman, et al.
Hardcover from W A Farnsworth Library & Art Museum
Book Published: February, 2000

Maine's Covered Bridges (Images of America)
by Joseph D. Conwill
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: October, 2003

Maine (Land of Liberty)
by Barbara Knox, Constance M. Manter
School & Library Binding from Bridgestone Books
Book Published: January, 2003

Maine: Unforgettable Vintage Images of the Pine Tree State (The Best of Images of America)
by Best of Images of America
Hardcover from Arcadia
Book Published: April, 2001

Maine Ghosts and Legends: 26 Encounters With the Supernatural
by Thomas A. Verde
Paperback from Down East Books
Book Published: July, 1995

Maine: A Narrative History
by Neil Rolde, Earle G., Jr. Shettleworth
Paperback from Tilbury House Publishers
Book Published: June, 2003

The Maine Reader: The Down East Experience, 1614 to the Present
by Charles Shain, Samuella Shain
Paperback from David R Godine
Book Published: August, 1997

Northern New England (Smithsonian Guides to Historic America (Paper), 4)
by Vance Muse, Paul Rocheleau, Donald Young
Paperback from Stewart, Tabori & Chang
Book Published: April, 1998

Native American Place Names of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont
Listed under Vermont

The Old Somerset Railroad: A Lifeline for Northern Mainers
by Walter Marshall MacDougall
Listed under American Railroads

Revolution Downeast : The War for American Independence in Maine
by James S. Leamon

Runaways, Deserters, And Notorious Villains from Rhode Island Newspapers. Vol. 1: The Providence Gazette, 1762-1800
by Ralph E. Hillman
Listed under Rhode Island

Shipyard in Maine: Percy & Small and the Great Schooners
by Ralph Linwood Snow, et al
(Hardcover - October 1998)

A Shower of Stars : The Medal of Honor and the 27th Maine
by John J. Pullen
Listed under Civil War Maine

Stand Firm Ye Boys from Maine: The 20th Maine of the Gettysburg Campaign
by Thomas A. Desjardin
Listed under Civil War Maine

Steamboat Yesterdays On Casco Bay
by William J. Frappier

Twelve Thousand Years: American Indians in Maine
by Bruce J. Bourque, Steven L. Cox, Ruth Holmes Whitehead
Hardcover from Univ of Nebraska Pr
Book Published: August, 2001

To Katahdin: The 1876 Adventures of Four Young Men and a Boat
by George T. Sewall, Jr., Irvin C. "Buzz" Caverly, Neil Rolde
Paperback from Tilbury House Publishers
Book Published: 01 May, 2000

A Unit of Water, a Unit of Time: Joel White's Last Boat
by Douglas Whynott
Paperback from Washington Square Press
Book Published: May, 2000
 
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past: The Story of Maine Indians
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past: The Story of Maine Indians
by Neil Rolde
Paperback from Tilbury House Publishers
Book Published: May, 2004
 
Upper Saco River Valley: Fryeburg, Lovell, Brownfield, Denmark, and Hiram (Images of America)
by Diane Barnes, Jack Barnes
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: July, 2002

A Vast Army of Women : Maine's Uncounted Forces in the American Civil War
by Lynda L. Sudlow
Listed under Civil War Maine

Vessels of Camden, ME
by Barbara F. Dyer
Paperback from Arcadia Tempus Publishing Group, Inc.
Book Published: 01 September, 1995
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What's Cooking at Moody's Diner: 60 Years of Recipes and Reminiscences
by Nancy Genthner, Nancy Moody Genthner
(Paperback - May 1989)

Yarmouth (Images of America: Maine)
by Alan M. Hall
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: July, 2002

Yarmouth (Images of America: Maine)
by Alan M. Hall
Paperback from Arcadia
Book Published: July, 2002

Memories of a Maine Island: Turn-Of-The-Century Tales & Photographs (Northeast Folklore, V. 33)
by Marie Locke, Nancy A. Montgomery, et al.
Mass Market Paperback from Maine Folklife Center
Book Published: May, 1998
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