This book gives an excellent view of what it was like to be a new immigrant to this country in the early 1900's. It captures the misery of the living conditions and the abysmal lives of factory workers. Rose and Kathleen arrive in New York knowing no one, but each having big dreams for her future. They both find out very quickly that the dreams may be harder to achieve than they thought, but their growing relationship makes everything more bearable. The biggest fault with this book is that it doesn't develop the details enough, so that the horrific Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, which really occurred, becomes almost a minor event in the book. This is definitely worth reading.

Being from the area it brought back a lot of memories. Made me realize that I forgot so much about what happened years ago. I have actually met three of the suspects mentioned in the book due to working in the Sheriff's Office for the past nine years. Still unsolved to this day. We may never find out who the killer was and if he will ever strike again.

Highly recommended if you're a photo buff like mylelf, or if you are into pictures of the Maine coastline. Would make an especially nice gift as a coffee table book. Not much narrative, but there are 112 pages of beautiful pictures, with a little explanation about each one. The photos were taken by Charles Feil from an ultralite airplane, and encompass all 4 seasons; really illustrating the ruggedness of the land.

This is a biography of Leonard Bacon (1802-1881) a Congregational minister from Connecticut, a newspaper columnist and social reformer, a moderate opponent of slavery and an advocate of African colonization.

Bacon, like many white Northern clergy of his day, considered African slavery an evil, but advocated gradual, rather than immediate abolition of slavery. For many years he supported the American Colonization Society, which sought to settle freed African-American slaves in Liberia, a privately owned colony in Africa. The ACS saw itself as a humanitarian and missionary endeavor, which would facilitate the gradual abolition of slavery and help to Christianize and civilize Africa in the process. The ACS made the implictly racist assumption that free blacks could never flourish in the predominantly white United States.

Bacon, as an advocate of colonization, was at odds with proslavery southerners, who objected to any interference with slavery. He also clashed with immediate abolitionists, like William Lloyd Garrison, who saw colonization as a cruel scheme to deport free blacks.

Hugh Davis does an excellent job in presenting primary source material in its historical context, weaving an engaging narrative of a figure who was neither a glamorous hero nor a notorious villain in this chapter of American history. This book would be helpful for anyone who wishes to understand a moral stance on slavery that has lately been discredited, but was once the opinion of many northern Americans.

Davis also describes other aspects of Bacon's career and his personal life, including his efforts to organize the national structure of the Congregational Church and his sister, Delia's, infamous attempt to prove that the works of Shakespeare were really written by their ancestor, Sir Francis Bacon, and her consequent descent into insanity.

I am the son of the author. My father, George Kelsey Dreher (1919-1994), began researching Samuel Huntington in the 1960's when he moved to a town in Connecticut rather near Huntingotn's birthplace. Discovering there had been almost nothing written about our de facto first President of the United States he began deciphering Huntington's handwritten letters. Dad had graduated from Dartmouth, a major in English Honors, in 1941. Then he earned degrees from Oberlin Graduate School of Theology and Yale Divinity School and became an historian of church history for Huntington's era. From 1961-1964 he lectured in religion and philosophy at Wichita University and published several pieces in church periodicals. In 1974 he published his retroform of the 16th century play KING EDWARD I, by George Peele, and provided an introduction for the 13th century rebellion of Lluellen, Prince of Wales, who fought the Crown for Welsh sovereignty. While minister of Mystic Congregational Church in Connecticut, he was given a partial sabbatical in 1980 when Yale Divinity School awarded him a fellowship for continuing research on "The Presidency of Samuel Huntington in the Light of New England Religion." He was able to exhaust any known references to Samuel Huntington's tenure as President of Congress and his family's religious background. He completed the manuscript after retirement in 1984 and it was published posthumously in 1996. Dad's writing has been called "fascinating", "comprehensive", "poetic", "forceful", and "brilliant". Others have said, "We may well thank Dreher." And, "This book is a valuable addition to our understanding the birth pains of our nation." It is sold at the Governor Samuel Huntington Museum in Scotland, Connecticut, and at Independence National Historic Park in Philadelphia.

Mark Ammerman has captured a slice of time and a fascinating cast of men and women and convincingly and sensitively drawn them on a colorful canvas 300 pages long. "Longshot," Ammerman's third in the historical fiction series, "The Cross and the Tomahawk," is the best crafted of his well-researched and authentic sagas.

The quick-flowing narratives follow the lives of the Narragansett Indians of Rhode Island from the time of their first encounter with the European whites to the conversion of many to Christianity, and their spiritual, physical, and societal trials and triumphs through generations of interaction with the dominant white culture. As we follow Christopher Long, Caleb Hobomucko, and Conestoga Joe from New England to the Ohio in 1750, we are treated to a slice of God's country in the mid 18th century.

Ammerman has crafted an interesting array of wide-ranging characters who show the full spectrum of human strengths and foibles. He convincingly depicts the humor and pathos of diverse races and cultures interacting in both strife and individual harmony while seeking personal meaning in their own lives.

The prose manages a fluid balance of period dialect while incorporating authentic Native American words and geographic place names. Historical notes, a bibliography, and glossary of terms assist the readers.

This book, and the ones preceding it in the series, are entertaining, enlightening, and educational. Buy 'em and read 'em!

Rolston writes of the experience of the ordinary Civil War soldier in a manner both compelling and informative. I found it hard to put the book down! By interweaving some of the clearest descriptions of major battles I've read with the fascinating story of Rolston's own quest to discover the story and resting place of a Confederate veteran near his home in Rhode Island, he becomes a character in the continuing of history of the Civil War. Rolston easily conveys the tragedy, the irony, and the terrible beauty wrapped up in a time in American history when men held honor dear enough to die for.

Eisler's collection of pieces from The Lowell Offering is arranged in a user-friendly manner, but is limited in its content. If one cannot get one's hands on the original publications, however, this work is a great stand-in. Highly recommended as a research instrument, as articles are fully footnoted.

I bought this book as a 'gag gift' for my wife, a New England native who LOVES maple syrup. Turns out it is a really wonderful cookbook about "cooking" with maple syrup (anybody can pour it on stuff). If you use grade B maple syrup (much darker, with a very strong maple flavor) you don't even need to use much. This book made a maple syrup lover out of me!

I recently visted Martha's Vineyard and wanted something to share with friends and family that would be as vivid as my memories of the homes and scenery I experienced on my visit to the Island. This book was it! The author and photographer not only captured the color, texture and scenery of the Island but the history and ambiance as well. A perfect memory of a beautiful stay to share with friends and family. P.S. I only wish Jackie O's house was included.