Public Library of the City of Bangor
Author | : Bangor Public Library (Bangor, Me.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Public libraries |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bangor Public Library (Bangor, Me.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Public libraries |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Trudy Irene Scee |
Publisher | : Definitive History |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781596291911 |
The first settlers of what would become Bangor, Maine, established a community initially known as Kenduskeag Plantation, and since that time, generations of residents have relied on the Penobscot River for food, water, recreation, industry and transportation--it has provided a route to the ocean and to the world. The people of Bangor created a community that has remained dedicated not only to economic growth but also to providing for the needs of the impoverished. A leading port city and the "lumber capital of the world" during the nineteenth century, Bangor also claims America's second oldest garden cemetery, an unrivaled public library, the nation's oldest community orchestra and one of its oldest community bands. Citizens of Bangor have served in the Civil War and all subsequent American military engagements. They have overcome fires and floods that decimated the city and epidemics that devastated the population. They have known colorful and notorious characters, such as local brothel owner Fan Jones and America's public enemy number one, Al Brady, as well as dedicated individuals and families who have served as community leaders and caretakers year after year, decade after decade. And they have adapted to such modern socioeconomic challenges as evolving transportation methods, the Ku Klux Klan, urban renewal and the city's shift to a distribution and service center. Historian Trudy Irene Scee presents all of this and more in this full history of the Queen City of the East.
Author | : Robin Clifford Wood |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2021-05-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1647420466 |
Born of illustrious New England stock, Rachel Field was a National Book Award–winning novelist, a Newbery Medal–winning children’s writer, a poet, playwright, and rising Hollywood success in the early twentieth century. Her light was abruptly extinguished at the age of forty-seven, when she died at the pinnacle of her personal happiness and professional acclaim. Fifty years later, Robin Clifford Wood stepped onto the sagging floorboards of Rachel’s long-neglected home on the rugged shores of an island in Maine and began dredging up Rachel’s history. She was determined to answer the questions that filled the house’s every crevice: Who was this vibrant, talented artist whose very name entrances those who still remember her work? Why is that work—so richly remunerated and widely celebrated in her lifetime—so largely forgotten today? The journey into Rachel’s world took Wood further than she ever dreamed possible, unveiling a life fraught with challenge, and buried by tragedy, and yet incandescent with joy. The Field House is a book about beauty—beauty in Maine island landscapes, in friendship, love, and heartbreak; beauty hidden beneath a woman’s woefully unbeautiful exterior; beauty in a rare, delightful spirit that still whispers from the past. Just listen.
Author | : Bangor Public Library (Bangor, Me.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 134 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Public libraries |
ISBN | : |