Eagle Pond

Eagle Pond
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2007
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618839346

This collection brings together for the first time all of Hall's writing on Eagle Pond Farm, his ancestral home in New Hampshire. It includes "Seasons at Eagle Pond" and "Here at Eagle Pond," the poem RDaylilies on the Hill, S and other essays.

Here at Eagle Pond

Here at Eagle Pond
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780618084739

In these tender essays, Hall shares his memories and thoughts on growing up in New Hampshire on his grandparent's dairy farm, of the seasons, and of his connection to the land, his family, and his coming home.

Seasons at Eagle Pond

Seasons at Eagle Pond
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 86
Release: 1987
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780899195421

The author shares his observations on rural life in New Hampshire and the changes in nature throughout the year

Christmas At Eagle Pond

Christmas At Eagle Pond
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 95
Release: 2012-11-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547581505

Donald Hall draws on his own childhood memories and gives himself the thing he most wanted but didn't get as a boy: a Christmas at Eagle Pond. It’s the Christmas season of 1940, and twelve-year-old Donnie takes the train to visit his grandparents' place in rural New Hampshire. Once there, he quickly settles into the farm’s routines. In the barn, Gramp milks the cows and entertains his grandson by speaking rhymed pieces, while Donnie’s eyes are drawn to an empty stall that houses a graceful, cobwebby sleigh. Now Model A's speed over the wintry roads, which must be plowed, and the beautiful sleigh has become obsolete. When the church pageant is over, the gifts are exchanged, and the remains of the Christmas feast put away, the air becomes heavy with fine snowflakes—the kind that fall at the start of a big storm—and everyone wonders, how will Donnie get back to his parents on time?

The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird

The Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird
Author: Jack E. Davis
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1631495267

Best Books of the Month: Wall Street Journal, Kirkus Reviews From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Gulf, a sweeping cultural and natural history of the bald eagle in America. The bald eagle is regal but fearless, a bird you’re not inclined to argue with. For centuries, Americans have celebrated it as “majestic” and “noble,” yet savaged the living bird behind their national symbol as a malicious predator of livestock and, falsely, a snatcher of babies. Taking us from before the nation’s founding through inconceivable resurgences of this enduring all-American species, Jack E. Davis contrasts the age when native peoples lived beside it peacefully with that when others, whether through hunting bounties or DDT pesticides, twice pushed Haliaeetus leucocephalus to the brink of extinction. Filled with spectacular stories of Founding Fathers, rapacious hunters, heroic bird rescuers, and the lives of bald eagles themselves—monogamous creatures, considered among the animal world’s finest parents—The Bald Eagle is a much-awaited cultural and natural history that demonstrates how this bird’s wondrous journey may provide inspiration today, as we grapple with environmental peril on a larger scale.

One Eagle Soaring

One Eagle Soaring
Author: Robert Budd
Publisher: First West Coast Books
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2018-04-07
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781550178289

Following on the success of their bestselling board book Hello Humpback!, the celebrated and award-winning authors Roy Henry Vickers and Robert Budd are back with One Eagle Soaring, the second volume in their exciting new series, First West Coast Books. One Eagle Soaring, a "first numbers" book, explores counting and numbers with the help of West Coast animals--from a single eagle aloft, to a pair of swimming whales, as well as leaping frogs, honey-hungry bears and a group of ten dozing marmots. Combining Roy Henry Vickers' vivid illustrations, a glossy tactile finish and a simple yet catchy text, this sturdy board book introduces babies and toddlers to the spectacular scenery and wildlife of British Columbia.

Report

Report
Author: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
Publisher:
Total Pages: 658
Release: 1917
Genre:
ISBN:

Life Work

Life Work
Author: Donald Hall
Publisher: Beacon Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2012-03-13
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0807095427

The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with “extraordinary nobility and wisdom” (The New York Times) When Donald Hall moved to his grandparents’ New Hampshire farm in 1975, his work as a writer and a life devoted to the literary arts must have seemed remote from the harsh physical labor of his ancestors. However, he reveals a similar kind of artistry in the lives of his grandparents, Kate and Wesley. From them, he learned that the devotion to craft—be it canning vegetables, writing poems, or carting manure—creates its own special discipline and an ‘absorbedness’ that no wage can compensate. In this “sustained meditation on work as the key to personal happiness” (Los Angeles Times), we see how the writer has modeled his own life on his family’s lives of work, solitude, and love. When Hall comes face to face with his own mortality halfway through writing this book, we understand both his obsession with work and its ultimate consolation.

Buxton

Buxton
Author: James D. Libby Ph.D.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2009-03-23
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 1439621462

Buxton sits along the eastern side of the Saco River in northern York County. The Saco was instrumental in the towns establishment, as early settlers moved up the river from the towns of Biddeford and Saco and settled on the rivers bank at Salmon Falls. Buxtons inhabitants powered their mills from the river and other local tributaries, and the towns early villages were located near these mills. Buxton presents vintage postcards of the riverside villages of Salmon Falls, Union Falls, Bar Mills, West Buxton, and Bonny Eagle, along with inland centers, including Groveville, Buxton Center, Lower Corner, Duck Pond, and other hamlets. Postcard images of Buxton from the year 1895 forward provide valuable insight into the life and times of the citizens of this onetime industrial center.