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  • Tinkham Brothers' Tide-mill

    J.T. Trowbridge

    Paperback (Arlington Historical Society, March 15, 1999)
    This expanded edition of The Tinkham Brothers' Tide-Mill includes the real-life story that inspired the nineteenth-century author, John Townsend Trowbridge, to write this popular juvenile novel. Through extensive original research, Richard A. Duffy describes the life and times of B.F. Woods, a nineteenth-century tide mill owner in Arlington, Massachusetts. Woods endured years of conflicts to sustain his little factory on the Mystic River-a tale as colorful as that of the Tinkham Brothers, but with a sadly different outcome.
  • Prince Estabrook, Slave and Soldier

    Alice Hinkle

    Paperback (Lexington Historical Society, April 1, 2001)
    The National Council on the Social Studies will present "Prince Estabrook" with the 2002 Carter G. Woodson Book Award (middle school division) at the NCSS annual meeting in Nov. NCSS awards go to the most distinguished social science books depicting ethnicity in the United States appropriate for young people.
  • Rye's Battle of the Century: Saving the New Hampshire Seacoast from Olympic Oil

    Lisa Moll

    Paperback (Rye Historical Society, June 5, 2016)
    This book was inspired by town of Rye resident Lisa Moll’s University of New Hampshire research paper entitled “Rye’s Ode to Olympic Oil,” which demonstrated the crucial role Rye played in stopping Olympic Oil’s 1974 effort to build the largest oil refinery in the world on Great Bay in Durham, New Hampshire. Rye blocked the Olympic effort to secure a marine terminal on the New Hampshire Isles of Shoals to receive crude oil and the pipelines needed to transport oil for refining inland. Lisa’s paper, part of which was researched at the Rye, New Hampshire, Town Museum, also provides a full overview of the role of Durham, New Hampshire and other seacoast NH towns in the defeat of the refinery. The Rye Historical Society (RHS) is grateful to all the people who fought tirelessly to save the coastline of New Hampshire from exploitation. Particular thanks is given to the late Guy Chichester of Rye who fought the proposal tirelessly and donated his collection of material to the Town museum, and to Jessie Herlihy, founder of the Rye Historical Society in 1976, who held anti-refinery meetings in her home in 1973-74. Also key in the battle to save the NH Seacoast was Phyllis Bennett, publisher of the start-up community newspaper, Publick Occurrences, which broke the story that Olympic Oil was planning an oil refinery complex for the Seacoast of New Hampshire. Phyllis led a relentless effort to inform and connect the Seacoast community with facts, and bring the truth of the proposed oil refinery complex out of the shadows of the governor’s office and into the light for all to see. This was at a time when NH's largest newspaper, The Manchester Union Leader, and the then governor of New Hampshire, Meldrim Thomson, siding with Aristotle Onassis, were all championing and supporting the building of the oil refinery. On the fortieth anniversary of the oil refinery defeat in 2014, Dudley Dudley, who helped spearhead the defeat of the proposal in Durham and in the New Hampshire legislature, gave a talk in Rye. Peter Horne, one of the key Rye activists against the refinery, spoke about his role in the defeat. Peter’s reflections are included in this book, along with other Rye activists. We are forever grateful to the two elderly sisters, Bernice Remick and Frances Tucker, who refused repeated exhorbitant offers to sell their 42-acre farm to Olympic Oil. Their farm on Brackett Rd. in Rye was directly in the path of the proposed pipeline, and in their refusal to sell, the entire Oil Refinery deal came to a halt. Later, the sisters sold their land to Rye Conservation Commission for a mere $12,000. This essay is dedicated to all the people who had the passion and courage to protect and preserve the Seacoast community for future generations. They took on the mighty and the powerful in the “battle of the century.”
  • Faces of Christmas Past

    Bill Holm

    Hardcover (Afton Historical Society Pr, July 1, 1997)
    FACES OF CHRISTMAS PAST is an engaging, middle-aged look at the perils of Christmas, our own self-imposed burdens of ritual duty (like the newsy Christmas Xerox), and the more unsettling fact that successive Christmases, more even than New YearÂ’s, mark the passing of our life from childhood to death. "Old Christmas card photos show us how weÂ’ve aged," says author Bill Holm, "reminding us that, though time may curve in EinsteinÂ’s physics, in our small life it is a straight line to white hair and bifocals." Holm also reminds us of the great consoling ritual of music, so rich and full of feeling at Christmas. Our best defense against age and death may be singing, he says, so weÂ’d better open our mouths with courage and spirit to let the songs come.
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  • Chronicles of War: Apache & Yavapai Resistance in the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, 1821-1937

    Berndt Kuhn

    (Arizona Historical Society, Nov. 16, 2014)
    Based on three decades of extensive field work and exhaustive research in manuscript and published sources, Berndt Kuhn chronicles more than a century of conflict between Native Americans, Anglos, and Mexicans in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. The nearly 4,000 entries in this meticulous compendium provide essential information on combatants, casualties, and locations of battles, skirmishes, and raids, along with the relevant sources for further research. Maps and tables chart the ebb and flow of warfare and tally the cost in lives and property. A comprehensive bibliography enhances the value of this seminal work for scholars and beginning researchers.
  • To Be Free: Understanding and Eliminating Racism

    Thomas D. Peacock, Marlene Wisuri

    Hardcover (Afton Historical Society Press, March 15, 2010)
    Imagine if we were free of racism--free from the physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual toll that it takes on both racists and those subjected to racism. Imagine to be free. Often, however, just the mention of the word 'racism' makes people nervous. Like if the subject doesn't come up, maybe it will go away. Like maybe it will slip forever into the recesses of a cave somewhere. Or maybe it will disappear magically, as if it never existed. Many people of color, however, deal with the reality of racism in all its forms on a daily basis--in stores, in schools, at work, on the bus, while watching television, listening to music, browsing the Internet, or reading magazines and newspapers. They can't pretend it away because it is always there in all its ugliness before them.What if, however, we decided to acknowledge racism and talk about ways of preventing, reducing, and alleviating it? And what if we began the discussion among young people, before they solidify their beliefs
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  • The Four Hills of Life: Ojibwe Wisdom

    Thomas Peacock, Marlene Wisuri

    Hardcover (Afton Historical Society Press, May 1, 2006)
    Explains the Ojibwe traditions, beliefs, songs, and rituals that honor each of the four life stages: infancy, youth, adulthood, and old age.
  • The Four Hills of Life: Ojibwe Wisdom

    Thomas Peacock, Marlene Wisuri

    Hardcover (Afton Historical Society Press, May 12, 2006)
    The FOUR HILLS OF LIFE tells the wise and beautiful Ojibwe story about the path we walk through the seasons of life, from the springtime of youth through the winter of old age. The hills we climb along the way are the challenges we face and the responsibilities we accept. The path is not always easy; some of us lose our way. We question the meaning of life. But when we walk the Good Path—when we commit to values and fulfill our goals—the meaning of life finds us. Through engaging text, illustrations, and activities designed especially for kids, THE FOUR HILLS OF LIFE shows how everything in creation follows this path in the great circle of life. It is a timeless Ojibwe teaching for all young readers.
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  • Esperanza Means Hope

    Gwen Russell Harvey, Guy Porfirio

    Paperback (Arizona Historical Society, Nov. 17, 2010)
    Esperanza is a courageous and imaginative Mexican American girl living in the frontier town of Tucson, Arizona in 1876. She tries to be a responsible young lady, but she and her dog, Chica, always seem to find trouble. Esperanza's dearest wish is to discover what happened to her brother, Carlos, who years earlier was captured by Apache Indians. Then, miraculously, U.S. soldiers locate Carlos and bring him back to the ranch. But instead of the happy homecoming Esperanza envisioned, her brother is angry that he has been taken away from his Apache family and wants to return to them. Can Esperanza find a way to understand her brother? Or will she and Carlos be estranged forever? Filled with humor and adventure, this true-to-life story celebrates the cultures and lives of the people who shaped the American Southwest.
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  • The Good Path: Ojibwe Learning and Activity Book for Kids

    Thomas D. Peacock, Marlene Wisuri

    Paperback (Afton Historical Society Pr, Sept. 1, 2002)
    A history of the Ojibwe culture which focuses on the teachings of the Good Path, nine core values that are the fundamental basis of Ojibwe philosophy.
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  • Minnesota Hail to Thee! A Sesquicentennial History

    Karal Ann Marling

    Hardcover (Afton Historical Society Press, March 15, 2008)
    In the summer of 1849, according to official count, fewer than 4,000 people lived in Minnesota. The tally did not include members of the Indian tribes who had called Minnesota home for generations. Nor was it clear at the time just what and where Minnesota was.Minnesota was no longer part of the Wisconsin Territory, which had ceased to exist when Wisconsin became a state. The Stillwater Convention was Minnesota's first step on the road to statehood. Nobody sanctioned (approved) the meeting. Nobody voted its delegates into office. They just boldly asserted their claim and sent Henry Hastings Sibley off to Washington as the first congressional representative from Minnesota.The bill creating the Minnesota Territory and making St. Paul its capital was signed into law in March 1849. "Thank the Lord!" cried one Minnesota pioneer when word of the action trickled into the Mississippi Valley a month later. "We live in the United States again!"Minnesota is culture and nature in happy alignment. Visitors to Minnesota who come with fishing rods and snowshoes are apt to be looking for nature, as Henry Sibley and Alexander Ramsey and Henry Schoolcraft saw it, at the very beginning, in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, in its unspoiled splendor. Minnesota is past and present in happy alignment.
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  • FIVE DOLLARS AND A JUG OF RUM The History of Grafton, Vermont 1754-2000 Revised and Expanded Edition

    editor Schaub, Eve

    Paperback (Grafton Historical Society, March 15, 1999)
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