Cape Cod Curiosities

Cape Cod Curiosities
Author: Robin Smith-Johnson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2018-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439664234

The author of Legends & Lore of Cape Cod delves deeper into the colorful local history of Massachusetts’s quaint seaside region. Cape Cod may be a popular tourist destination, but it has a strange and distinctive history. The Pukwudgies were two- to three-foot beings with smooth gray skin, hairy faces and horns. These shape-shifting, mischievous “little people” are connected to Wampanoag Indian mythology. Edward Rowe Snow, a New England historian who was also known as “the Flying Santa,” delivered Christmas presents to lighthouse keepers and their families. Jeremiah’s Gutter was a canal in Orleans and the first Cape Cod Canal. Join author Robin Smith-Johnson as she uncovers the secrets behind many unique places, remarkable events and fascinating people. Includes photos!

Cape Cod Curiosities: Jeremiah's Gutter, the Historian Who Flew as Santa, Pukwudgies and More

Cape Cod Curiosities: Jeremiah's Gutter, the Historian Who Flew as Santa, Pukwudgies and More
Author: Robin Smith-Johnson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467138584

Cape Cod may be a popular tourist destination, but it has more than its share of strange and unique history. The Pukwudgies were two- to three-foot beings with smooth gray skin, hairy faces and horns. These shape-shifting, mischievous little people are connected to Wampanoag Indian mythology. Edward Rowe Snow, a New England historian who was also known as the Flying Santa, delivered Christmas presents to lighthouse keepers and their families. Jeremiah's Gutter was a canal in Orleans and the first Cape Cod Canal. Join author Robin Smith-Johnson as she uncovers the secrets behind many unique places, remarkable events and fascinating people of Cape Cod.

Massachusetts Curiosities

Massachusetts Curiosities
Author: Bruce Gellerman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2008-08-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461747228

Discover more than 200 of the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Bay State has to offer in this completely revised and updated edition.

Legends & Lore of Cape Cod

Legends & Lore of Cape Cod
Author: Robin Smith-Johnson
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 1
Release: 2016
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467119040

Introduction -- Ancient Cape Cod -- Legendary miscreants -- The arctic explorer from Provincetown -- Fantastic creatures -- Murder most foul -- Gentle legends -- The disappearance of Billingsgate Island -- Village vignettes -- Unsolved mysteries -- Medical Maladies -- Haunted places -- Wampanoag tales -- Cape Cod oddities -- Ill-fated sea voyages -- Local legends -- Believe it or not -- Goblins and ghosts -- Inspirational legends -- The auctioneer and the air crash -- Hurricanes and other disasters -- UFO sightings: fact or fiction -- Cape eccentrics -- Legendary Hyannis Port.

Cape Cod Stories

Cape Cod Stories
Author: Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Publisher:
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1907
Genre: History
ISBN:

Cape Cod Stories by Joseph Lincoln Crosby, first published in 1907, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Curiosities

Curiosities
Author: Charles C. Case
Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780828019163

The Second Home

The Second Home
Author: Christina Clancy
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250239613

After a disastrous summer spent at her family summer home on Cape Cod, seventeen-year-old Ann Gordon was left with a secret that changed her life forever, and created a rift between her sister, Poppy, and their adopted brother, Michael. Now, fifteen years later, her parents have died, leaving Ann and Poppy to decide the fate of the Wellfleet home that's been in the Gordon family for generations. For Ann, the once-beloved house is tainted with bad memories. Poppy loves the old saltbox, but after years spent chasing waves around the world, she isn't sure she knows how to stay in one place. Just when the sisters decide to sell, Michael re-enters their lives with a legitimate claim to the house. But more than that, he wants to set the record straight about that long ago summer. Reunited after years apart, these very different siblings must decide if they can continue to be a family-and the house just might be the glue that holds them together. Told through the shifting perspectives of Ann, Poppy, and Michael, this assured and affecting debut captures the ache of nostalgia for summers past and the powerful draw of the places we return to again and again. It is about second homes, second families, and second chances. Tender and compassionate, incisive and heartbreaking, The Second Home is the story of a family you'll quickly fall in love with, and won't soon forget.

Elephant House, Or, the Home of Edward Gorey

Elephant House, Or, the Home of Edward Gorey
Author: Kevin McDermott
Publisher: Pomegranate Communications
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN:

Elephant House may be the most intimate portrait of Edward Gorey ever published. McDermott's reminiscences and descriptions of the house accompany his engaging photographs, and more than a dozen of Gorey's etchings and drawings of elephants-never before published-are paired with quotes from the artist. Through this portrait, Edward Gorey becomes even more the man we all wish we had had the chance to meet, an artist whose brilliant and hilarious art and words will continue to charm and delight us for generations to come.

Maine Curiosities

Maine Curiosities
Author: Tim Sample
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0762768991

Humorists Tim Sample and Steve Bither reveal the wild and wacky side of Maine. Describing approximately 300 oddities--people, places, animals, historic tidbits, and trivia--their unique persepctive and witty narrative is highly entertaining. From the Society for the Preservation of the Black Fly to a jeweler whose medium is moose droppings, this is a great read for anyone who enjoys local humor and trivia with a twist.

Cape Cod and the Portland Gale of 1898

Cape Cod and the Portland Gale of 1898
Author: Donald Wilding
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2023-05-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439677700

On the night of November 26, 1898, with a killer storm of historic proportions approaching, the steamer Portland set out from Boston. By the following night, the winter hurricane sent the vessel to the depths of Massachusetts Bay off Cape Cod, claiming nearly two hundred lives. On the Cape, a few dozen victims of the Portland disaster washed ashore, while ships piled up in harbors, high tides swept away railroad tracks, and the landscape and beaches were changed forever. Several Cape Cod mariners went to sea and never returned, caught in the gale's evil clutches. Local author Don Wilding revisits this disaster and the heroic deeds of the U.S. Life-Saving Service and the Cape's citizenry in what came to be known as "The Portland Gale."