Candace Eisner Strick engagingly explains the history of the town of Harrisville, New Hampshire,and its mills. She uses Harrisville yarns in beautiful, complexly designed, colorful sweaters, and supplies clear directions for making them. The Fair Isle Scroll sweater is especially lovely.

The best recipe's brought together by the Junior league of Worcester. Many of the finest cooks share thier finest cuisine. This Cookbook, from a Junior League Organization, was brought together by a chair-person who wonderfly flowed fine local art images and wonderful recipes.

I grew up in Massachusetts and think of home when I use this cookbook.

As a collector of cookbooks, I found this one full of great recipes! There are even suggested menus incorporating some of the dishes in the book which I found helpful in putting an entire meal together. Not only are the recipes unique and easy to understand, but it is also a "good read". Each section is introduced with a sketch and a piece of history about a New Hampshire village. Collectors of New England things will enjoy this book not only for it's recipes but also for its historical "flavor". The book lays flat on a counter for convenience, and it also has a cover that can be wiped off if you are a messy cook! Great value!!

Wonderful easy to read chapter book dealing with everything from the Mayflower and Speedwell to Squanto in a very realistic, historical manner. As a first grade teacher, I have found this book to be both interesting for young readers as well as informative. It differs than other "Thanksgiving" books in that although it is most sympathetic to the abilities of the reader, it provides a very compassionate, "adult" look into our history. It is much more than just a "pilgrims, Mayflower, Indians and turkey" story book! It is an excellent resource for the home and the classroom!END

This book really scared me. I mean, I was TERRIFIED! True stories of events that have occured in New England (my homeworld, I might add) that were of a not-so-just-natural...er, nature.

Standouts:
"The Demon of Dover"--Creepy story, might involve a stray extraterrestrial, and altogether mysterious.
"The Boogeyman of Beggerly"--In Beverly, MA, a boy-up-through-his-years-to-man faces a terror that emerges only in the shadows of the night to both cause mischief (opening cupboard doors and windows, moving things around) and horror (the laughing at the foot of the man's bed when he was asleep--agh!). This one should be made into a movie!

Too bad this and the other books in its series, NEW ENGLAND MYSTERIES, are long out of print. Enjoy, and...leave the lights on. Trust me, after "The Boogeyman of Beggerly", you'll need them.

A must read for people interested in the environment and how to interpret their surroundings. Beautifully written, thoughtful and intelligent. One of the best books I've read.

I had been reading, and admiring, this book for two years when I found out that Mr. Loewer worked on the same Environmental Show as myself: we are all vols, so it is no wonder we have never met. This book is truely a showcase of Mr. Loewer's talents': THOREAU'S WRITINGS ARE ALWAYS THERE, BUT THE PLAY 2ND FIDDLE TO THE WONDER OF AMERICA'S NATURAL BEAUTY. Great effort: a must for any lover of native plants.

No other American Puritan has fueled both the popular and academic imagination as has Cotton Mather (1663-1728). Colonial America's foremost theologian and historian, Mather was also one of its most powerful voices advocating millennialism. His lifelong preoccupation witht his subject culminated in his definitive treatise "Triparadisus" (1726/27), left unpublished at his death. In it, Mather justified his ideological revisionism; his response to the philological, historical, and scientific challenges of the Bible as text by English and continental deists; and his hermeneutical break from the orthodox exegeses of his father, Increase Mather, and Joseph Mede. In his critical introduction to this edition of "Triparadisus," Reiner Smolinski demonstrates that Mather's hermeneutical defense of revealed religion seeks to negotiate between the orthodox literalist position of his New England forebears and the new philological challenges to the scriptures by Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac de la Peyrere, Benedict Spinoza, Richard Simon, Henry Hammond, Thomas Burnet, William Whiston, Anthony Collins, and Isaac Newton. In "Triparadisus" Mather's hermeneutics undergoes a radical shift from a futurist interpretation of the prophecies to a preterist position as he joins the quasi-allegocial camp of Grotius, Hammond, John Lightfoot, and Richard Baxter. The "Threefold Paradise of Cotton Mather" also challenges a number of longstanding paradigms in the scholarship on American Puritanism, history, literature, and culture. Smolinski specifically calls into question the consensus among intellectual historians who have traced the Puritan origin of the American self to the Errand into the Wilderness and the idea of God's elect. He also challenges the commonplace argument that New England represented the culmination of prophetic history in an American New Jerusalem for the Mathers and their peers. As an important link between Mather's premillennialism in the late 17th century and Jonathan Edwards' postmillennialism in the Great Awakening,"Triparadisus" provides important biographical insight into Mather's last years, when, liberated from his father's interpretations, he put forward his own.

A real Bargain at this price. I really enjoyed the book and Hopkins and Bailey did a great job. A very good look at a broad range of rugs and carpets. Draws heavily on the Rudnick, Paquin, and Varteresian, collections. Very good structural analyses included.

Compiled and written by travel writer and cookbook author Marguerite Thomas, Touring East Coast Wine Country: A Guide To The Finest Wineries offers the reader a wealth of reliable information concerning lodgings, touring programs, fine restaurant dining, trivia details of specific interest to the vacationer and wine connoisseur looking to enjoy a relaxing and engaging trip along New England, New York State, the Mid-Atlantic States or Virginia. A welcome and highly recommended trip and travel planning resource, black-and-white photographs enhance this succinctly presented guidebook.