Growing Up in Marblehead

Growing Up in Marblehead
Author: Dan Dixey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2021-11-22
Genre:
ISBN: 9780999107430

This book is a four hundred year timeline of events of Marblehead, Massachusetts. There are stories based on the experiences and observations of one family continuously living in Town. William Dixey was a servant of Isaac Johnson and arrived in Naumkeag in 1629. The Dixey family settled in Marblehead and has lived in this coastal town for almost four hundred years. The author is also a descendant of Isaac Allerton, a Mayflower passenger that used Marblehead as a base for his fishing fleet. Along with the timeline and stories, are four hundred and twenty photographs and maps from the author's private collection. Thirty pages of genealogy in the back of the book show connections to most of Marblehead's old families. Hundreds of names are listed, with some families going back to the late 1500s. Old books, documents, town records, probate records, wills, old newspapers, interviews with Marbleheaders, family letters and other family documents were used in writing the book.

Marblehead's First Harbor

Marblehead's First Harbor
Author: Hugh Peabody Bishop
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2011-11-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625842260

The true beauty and fury of the Atlantic Ocean are known only by the rugged individuals who have made their living from the sea. In the seventy-five years from the American Revolution to the middle of the nineteenth century, Marblehead, Massachusetts, experienced a golden age of fishing. For the next fifty years, the industry struggled, but from 1900 until the end of the twentieth century, one small anchorage made itself proud. From boat building to sail design, First Harbor produced creative men whose innovations helped shape marine history. Join Hugh Peabody Bishop and Brenda Bishop Booma as they reveal this story through the eyes of a Marblehead fisherman, drawn uncontrollably by his love for the sea.

Pastel Innovations

Pastel Innovations
Author: Dawn Emerson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2017-05-25
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1440350469

Pastel Painting Techniques That Are Revolutionary, Fun and Easy! Designed for beginners considering using pastel for the first time, for experienced artists who may feel uninspired, and for anyone in between, the skills you will gain with Pastel Innovations, will help you build confidence and open your world so you can paint what CAN BE, not just what you THINK is. Explore the unique joys of pastel painting with: • An exploration of the basics: You'll expand your artist's vocabulary learning to use the elements and fundamentals of design to create beautiful, balanced paintings. • 20 simple exercises build off each other and help you grow as an artist, little by little, building confidence. • 40+ innovative pastel painting techniques: Feel inspired as you learn new approaches to using pastel to build up and reveal layers, incorporate monotypes as underpaintings, create texture that cannot be duplicated by drawing or painting, and more. • Thoughtful self critique: Questions, approaches and checklists that will result in better art, while at the same time making you a better artist. Leave your expectations behind and engage in the process of pastel painting with a newfound freedom to play and explore!

Death of an Empire

Death of an Empire
Author: Robert Booth
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 1429990260

SALEM has long been notorious for the witch trials of 1692. But a hundred years later it was renowned for very different pursuits: vast wealth and worldwide trade. Now Death of an Empire tells the story of Salem's glory days in the age of sailing, and the murder that hastened its descent. When America first became a nation, Salem was the richest city in the republic, led by a visionary merchant who still ranks as one of the wealthiest men in history. For decades, Salem connected America with the wider world, through a large fleet of tall ships and a pragmatic, egalitarian brand of commerce taht remains a model of enlightened international relations. But America's emerging big cities and westward expansion began to erode Salem's national political importance just as its seafaring economy faltered in the face of tariffs and global depression. With Salem's standing as a world capital imperiled, two men, equally favored by fortune, struggled for its future: one, a progressive merchant-politician, tried to build new institutions and businesses, while the other, a reclusive crime lord, offered a demimonde of forbidden pleasures. The scandalous trial that followed signaled Salem's fall from national prominence, a fall that echoed around the world in the loss of friendly trade and in bloody reprisals against native peoples by the U.S. Navy. Death of an Empire is an exciting tale of a remarkably rich era, shedding light on a little-known but fascinating period of Ameriacn history in which characters such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, John Quincy Adams, and Daniel Webster interact with the ambitious merchants and fearless mariners who made Salem famous around the world.

The Weight of Water

The Weight of Water
Author: Sarah Crossan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2013-07-23
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1619630478

A poetic, gifty offering that combines first love, friendship, and persistent courage in this lyrical immigration story told in verse. Carrying just a suitcase and an old laundry bag filled with clothes, Kasienka and her mother are immigrating to England from Poland. Kasienka isn't the happiest girl in the world. At home, her mother is suffering from a broken heart as she searches for Kasienka's father. And at school, Kasienka is having trouble being the new girl and making friends. The only time she feels comforted is when she's swimming at the pool. But she can't quite shake the feeling that she's sinking. Until a new boy swims into her life, and she learns that there might be more than one way to stay afloat. The Weight of Water is a coming-of-age story that deftly handles issues of immigration, alienation, and first love. Moving and poetically rendered, this novel-in-verse is the story of a young girl whose determination to find out who she is prevails.

Citizen Somerville

Citizen Somerville
Author: Bobby Martini
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780982991503

In the early 1960s, a bloody civil war broke out between the two powerful Irish Mob families in the Somerville Massachusetts neighborhood known as Winter Hill. More than 60 men were murdered. The events offer a true picture of an era in Boston's pre-Whitey Bulger history when the streets were protected by a close-knit group of Irish-Italian "businessmen."

Glad Farm

Glad Farm
Author: Catherine Marenghi
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2017-05-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781544629735

Eliciting comparisons to "The Glass Castle" and the works of Elena Ferrante, "Glad Farm" is a stunning new memoir that readers can't put down. Raised in a primitive one-room farmhouse with no indoor plumbing, the fourth of five children, Catherine Marenghi begins her life in poverty and isolation, but is propelled forward by the love and support of her family. A decade after leaving home at the age of seventeen, she is a successful journalist with the means to buy her family their first decent house. But the past will not be put to rest so easily. Catherine unravels a web of long-buried family secrets, and a terrible betrayal that robbed her family of the home that was rightfully theirs. And she finally learns the story her parents never shared: the gladiolus farm that was once their dream. At once lyrical and raw, unflinching in its detail, "Glad Farm" is an iconic American story of renewal and reinvention, and the mythic power of a house to define our destiny.

Azor of Marblehead

Azor of Marblehead
Author: David E. Crowley
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2020-05-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781631104459

A young mother, Maude Crowley, moves to a seacoast town, Marblehead, Mass., and strives to write a children's book based on her 6-year-old son David and his playmates. Unlike other kids, her fictional child Azor can speak with animals who tell him important things like the location of lost objects and people. The young woman writes the book in three weeks. With the help of her brother-in-law Joseph Mitchell of the New Yorker, she finds an agent and a publisher, Oxford University Press. "Azor" is published in 1948 followed by four other children's stories. Reviewers love the books which go on to sell 51,000 copies and earn almost $9000 by 1960 ($85,000 in today's money).Her devotion to her son is total. How does she find time to write these books along with three others that aren't published and several short stories? And what is her son's life like knowing that he has a fictional counterpart? David, the real son, can't speak with animals but has a great childhood anyway. All is not perfect for him, though. He has to live in a world where the kids around him are real, and where his mother, despite her extraordinary talent and outsized persona, has all the flaws of a real adult.Fifty-two years after her first book is published, Maude Crowley dies in August 2000, and David inherits a mass of manuscripts, correspondence, and business papers. Now in full detail, you can read how Maude Crowley built her writing career, how she succeeded in the competitive world of children's publishing, and how she maintained her home and family. There are excerpts from the five children's books, notes from Maude that illuminate her forceful presence, and her son's reactions it all-her writing, her relationships, and her struggles with problems real and imagined.

Turbulent Years in Chelsea

Turbulent Years in Chelsea
Author: Arnie Jarmak
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-03-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439669279

Just one short mile but a world away from affluent, neighboring Boston, Chelsea's historically Irish and eastern European Jewish populations had always made the city unique. A more recent wave of immigration from Puerto Rico and Central America brought about more diversity during a period of economic decline. Ethnically charged political competition and unprecedented levels of corruption eventually brought the small city to the brink of collapse. This gripping narrative focuses on Chelsea's most turbulent years, from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. Join photographer Arnie Jarmak and writer Joshua Resnek as they unveil the hardscrabble city they encountered and lived in during their early careers.