Category: Local History

On February 18, 1952, four Coast Guardsmen set out from Station Chatham in a thirty-six-foot motor lifeboat to locate the mortally wounded T2 tanker Pendleton and rescue its crew during a Nor'easter. All four men knew the odds of finding the Pendleton and surviving the storm were slim. Whether by a miracle, luck, fate or able seamanship, amid sixty-foot seas with only a small engine and a single spotlight, the crew of the 36500-Bernie Webber, Ervin Maske, Andy Fitzgerald and Richard Livesey-found the hulk of the Pendleton and rescued thirty seamen, bringing the survivors safely to shore.
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Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown

By: Behrend, Jackie Eileen

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Blair : January 1998

Seller ID: 626090

ISBN-13: 9780895872104

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown comprise Virginia's historic triangle. Some of the most important chapters of America's history unfolded in these settlements. The region has been the scene of violent confrontations between settlers and the original natives, an emotional struggle for independence, a bitter civil war, and, most recently, a transformation into one of the country's finest examples of historic restoration. Some parapsychologists believe that spirits can be awakened by a sudden flurry of activity. With so much activity occurring throughout the area's history, it is little wond...
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Stamford, CT (Images of America)

By: Bull, Bonnie K.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing : August 1997

Seller ID: 646819

ISBN-13: 9780752408590

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 (The History of New York City)

By: Burrows, Edwin G., Wallace, Mike

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 2000

Seller ID: 646212

ISBN-13: 9780195140491

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata, to the consol...
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Greenwich (CT) (Images of America)

By: Clark, William J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing : July 2002

Seller ID: 613705

ISBN-13: 9780738510491

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

Greenwich is a stately southeastern Connecticut town well-known for its affluent homes and natural beauty.In the twentieth century, the town moved from a farming to a mercantile economy, and its population rose from twelve thousand to more than sixty thousand. The community consists of a number of distinct areas, just as it was one hundred years ago, and perhaps more than any other aspect, that neighborhood feeling has survived and even strengthened as new growth and new circumstances have continued to evolve. Greenwich is an eye-catching compilation of historical images, an overview of all th...
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A Shelter Is Not a Home...Or Is It? Lessons from Family Homelessness in New York City

By: Costa, Ralph da Nunez

Price: $3.00

Publisher: White Tiger Press : January 2004

Seller ID: 641631

ISBN-13: 9780972442503

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

One Family in Faith: a History of the Diocese of Bridgeport

By: Duff, Beth Longware

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Arti Grafiche : January 2003

Seller ID: 626873

ISBN-13: 9782746811782

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

It Happened In Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During The Mid-20th Century

By: Frommer, Myrna Katz,Frommer, Harvey

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Berkley Trade : September 2003

Seller ID: 641352

ISBN-13: 9780425191668

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

A mosaic of mid-century Manhattan and an exuberant oral history that begins in the post-World War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust. For anyone who grew up in or near "the city"-or fell in love with New York as an adult-this unique history is filled with vintage photos and personal interviews with such New York luminaries as Jimmy Breslin, Bill Gallo, Monte Irvin, Robert Merrill, Elaine Kaufman, Jerry Della Femmina, and Saul Zabar. "It Happened in Manhattan" is an often humorous, sometimes poignant, occasionally bitter-but always lovi...
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Red Bank Volume II (NJ) (Images of America)

By: Gabrielan, Randall

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing : November 1996

Seller ID: 608807

ISBN-13: 9780752404028

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret

By: Gavin, James

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Grove Weidenfeld : January 1991

Seller ID: 646741

ISBN-13: 9780802110800

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Italian American Recollections in Stamford, Connecticut

By: Harke, Kim

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Independently published : April 2020

Seller ID: 646816

ISBN-13: 9798638747527

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

A search for Stamford, Connecticut's Italian American history began in the archives and continued with dozens of interviews. The story that emerged included not only culture, but also generosity and cooperation among the city's various ethnic groups. Italian American descendants describe Stamford in the 1930s through the 1960s and the echoes of history that exist today. This book shares their memories of war, romance, work, play, food, and homemade wine.
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Stamford '76: A True Story of Murder, Corruption, Race, and Feminism in the 1970s

By: Hart, JoeAnn

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press : April 2019

Seller ID: 646817

ISBN-13: 9781609386375

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

On the High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park

By: LaFarge, Annik

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Thames & Hudson : May 2012

Seller ID: 645358

ISBN-13: 9780500290200

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

Thirty feet in the air, rebuilt and planted on one-and-a-half miles of abandoned, elevated railroad track snaking through Manhattan's West Side, the High Line has turned the dream of escape offered by most urban parks inside out.The High Line invites you deeper into the city than you've ever been before. Its stunning gardens wend between warehouses and apartment buildings, through one of the world's most vibrant contemporary art districts, transforming the neighborhood and reawakening the senses of the millions of visitors it attracts every year.On the High Line is an engaging, friend-at-your-...
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Couldn't Keep It to Myself: Testimonies from Our Imprisoned Sisters

By: Lamb, Wally

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Regan Books : February 2003

Seller ID: 599106

ISBN-13: 9780060534295

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

What I hope is that people reading this book will bear in mind that we are human beings first, inmates second.--Bonnie ForeshawIn a stunning new work of insight and hope, New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb once again reveals his unmatched talent for finding the humanity in the lost and lonely and celebrates the transforming power of the written word.For the past several years, Lamb has taught writing to a group of women prisoners at York Correctional Institution. At first mistrustful of Lamb, one another, and the writing process, over time these students let down their guard, picked ...
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Scary Stories of Stamford

By: Latham, William,Maurer, Rolf

Price: $3.00

Publisher: lulu.com : November 2009

Seller ID: 625114

ISBN-13: 9781435760325

Binding: Trade

Condition: Used - Like New

Wandering Home : A Long Walk Across Americas Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermonts Champlain Valley And New Yorks Adirondacks

By: MCKIBBEN, BILL

Price: $4.00

Publisher: N/A : April 2005

Seller ID: 647938

ISBN-13: 9780609610732

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The bestselling author of The End of Nature walks from his current home in Vermont to his former home in the Adirondacks and reflects on the two landscapes, places of diverse human habitation and pure wilderness that share a border.
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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

By: Pierpont, Claudia Roth

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : May 2016

Seller ID: 609505

ISBN-13: 9780374104405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age.Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen c...
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American Rhapsody: Writers, Musicians, Movie Stars, and One Great Building

By: Pierpont, Claudia Roth

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : May 2016

Seller ID: 644146

ISBN-13: 9780374104405

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Ranging from the shattered gentility of Edith Wharton's heroines to racial confrontation in the songs of Nina Simone, American Rhapsody presents a kaleidoscopic story of the creation of a culture. Here is a series of deeply involving portraits of American artists and innovators who have helped to shape the country in the modern age.Claudia Roth Pierpont expertly mixes biography and criticism, history and reportage, to bring these portraits to life and to link them in surprising ways. It isn't far from Wharton's brave new women to F. Scott Fitzgerald's giddy flappers, and on to the big-screen c...
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Times Square Roulette: Remaking the City Icon

By: Sagalyn, Lynne B.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: The MIT Press : November 2001

Seller ID: 647252

ISBN-13: 9780262194624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The spectacularly successful transformation of Times Square has become a model for other cities. From its beginning as Longacre Square, Times Square's commercialism, signage, cultural diversity, and social tolerance have been deeply embedded in New York City's psyche. Its symbolic role guaranteed that any plan for its renewal would push the hot buttons of public controversy: free speech, property-taking through eminent domain, development density, tax subsidy, and historic preservation.In Times Square Roulette, Lynne Sagalyn debunks the myth of an overnight urban miracle performed by Disney an...
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Category: Local History