This book is available and can be supplied promptly. It includes dramatic color pictures of all 85 of the lighthouses of Massachusetts. The history and fascinating stories of these earliest lights built in the country are included. Every lighthouse in the state is pictured..

Lighthouses of nearby New Hampshire as well as lightships are included. Even a light which is in a church steeple is shown from the ground as well as a view in the steeple.

A map showing the location of the lighthouses as well as directions for finding them are included. Poetry. dramatic ocean scenes, and several views of each of the lights, make this a great guide for the lighthouse enthusiast.

112 pages, paperback, copyright 1983. purchaced new in Camden, Maine, late May 1999. more were in stock. 2nd printing 1996. Mine is signed by the author ( YIPPEE!!! ) 29 entries in Biliography. I'm giving it 5 stars because it is site specific, gives a brief overview of Lightships, and all Lightsships, but is very focused on Cape Cod and the Islands. Includes local lore and ledgend from crew mwmbers, all the way up until the Nantucket Lightship was replaced in 1986, the last of all Lightships. By the way, the Nantucket that was sank by the Titanic's sister-ship was recently found.

Susan Wilson has done a wonderful job writing essentially a "travel" book in an approachable and compelling style. Her instructions and "trails" are clear and logical and take you into some of the prettiest areas in Boston and the surrounding towns. Yet while she is directing you in and among the alleyways, Wilson manages to weave a compelling history of characters and places that has you heading for your local library to check out long-forgotten authors. I've drawn up a whole "Boston" reading list to reacquaint myself with some old friends and maybe make some new ones.

This book continues the story of Anne Nelson, begun in A Little Maid of Provincetown. In this book Anne's exciting adventures during the Revolution continue. I highly reccomend this book.

Anne Nelson is a little girl in Massachusetts during the Revolution. Her father goes to join the American army so a kind couple take her in. Anne has many adventures. This is a great book!

I have read this book and thoroughly enjoyed it from page one. I found myself totally captured by the story. I first read the book 20 years ago when we bought our house on the Cape. I have read it several times and am always deeply moved by it. I am an avid reader of local Cape Cod authors and had also read Windsong, which to me should be made into a movie. These two books take special place in my library and share with me a love for the Cape that comes from the heart and soul of our beings. Bravo to Mr. Moore. I wish he would write more books as he has a talent for touching you soul in his love for the Cape and characters he writes about. I give them both five stars!

THE LIVELY ART is an amazing collection. The names in the table of contents include many of the greatest artists today: Peter Sellars, Andrei Serban, Susan Sontag, Milan Kundera, Carlos Fuentes, Marsha Norman, Philip Glass, Robert Wilson, Heiner Muller, Dario Fo, JoAnne Akalaitis, Don de Lillo, Elliott Goldenthal, Liviu Ciulei, David Rabe, David Mamet, Paula Vogel, and Christopher Durang. Through interviews and articles written by the artists themselves, the pieces in this anthology provide an invaluable insight into the creative process and also an overview into contemporary theater practices. Some of the selections, like the acrimonious exchange of letters between Samuel Beckett and artistic director Robert Brustein, have great historical importance and raise important questions about the relation of any production to the text that inspired it.

In addition, distinguished scholars have contributed provocative essays: Robert Brustein, Harry Levin, Richard Gilman, Stephen Greenblatt, Jan Kott, and Harold Bloom. These articles provide interesting examples of current critical approaches from the new historicism (Greenblatt on King Lear) to production history (Kott on Hamlet). And in the symposium excerpt about The Taming of the Shrew sparks fly when a great theater director (Andrei Serban) confronts three formidable Harvard English professors: Greenblatt, Brustein, and Marjorie Garber. I particularly appreciated the remarks on Brecht by Harvard law professor Martha Minow as well as Arthur Holmberg's urbane essay "Machiavellis of the Bedroom--an Erotic Endgame." Also, the interviews with Janathan Miller, Philip Glass, and Robert Wilson are illuminating. The production photographs are a giant bonus.

This book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary drama. I can think of no other theater in the world that could have put together such a collection. Charles Gunnard Thomas, New York City.

The book, even though difficult to find, is worth a good look. There's LOTS of information and it doesn't seem as though the book leans one way or the other....innocent or guilty. What IS included are excerpts from the trial and inquest transcripts and clippings from newspapers of the day. If you can find it, GET THIS BOOK!

While academic in its approach, von Hoffman tells the colorful story of Boston's political landscape -- shifting away from the independent neighborhoods toward the centralized city government. Von Hoffman focuses on the growth of Jamaica Plain, a city neighborhood which began as a group of country estates on rural Jamaica Pond and transformed by the late 1800s into a dense, vibrant streetcar suburb surrounded by the lush parkland of Frederick Law Olmstead's Emerald Necklace. Most fascinating are the chapters on neighborhood society and the struggle over the construction of the Emerald Necklace. The author ends his analysis in the 1920s, leaving the abandonment of the neighborhood and its late-century revival into a dynamic, ethnicly diverse, family-friendly city neighborhood for a later book. This text is used by Von Hoffman in the class he teaches at Harvard University.

We would have never made it in Boston without this little book! The maps alone, especially the subway map, were worth well over the price of the book. We took the book everywhere we went and had a blast. It offers great advice about what to see, what not to see, places to shop, places to stay, places to eat, and anything else you can imagine. I also liked that it gave information on day trips to surrounding areas. I would recomend this book to anyone visiting Boston for the first time. We were there for two days and were able to see everything we wanted to see!!