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Book A Whaling Community New Bedford  Mass

Download or read book A Whaling Community New Bedford Mass written by Gare Thompson and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the adventures of sailors who hunted whales in the 1800s and what products were made from whale oil and whale parts.

Book Bridges  A Whaling Community  New Bedford  Massachusetts

Download or read book Bridges A Whaling Community New Bedford Massachusetts written by Gare Thompson and published by Benchmark Education Company. This book was released on 2011 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers learn about how people lived and worked in the 19th century whaling community of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Book A Whaling Community

Download or read book A Whaling Community written by Gare Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers learn about how people lived and worked in the 19th century whaling community of New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Book A Whaling Community New Bedford Mass

Download or read book A Whaling Community New Bedford Mass written by Gare Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the adventures of sailors who hunted whales in the 1800s and what products were made from whale oil and whale parts. (Set of 6 with Teacher's Guide and Comprehension Question Card)

Book Safely Moored at Last

Download or read book Safely Moored at Last written by Christine A. Arato and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Whaling Community  New Bedford  Mass  A Teacher Guide

Download or read book Whaling Community New Bedford Mass A Teacher Guide written by Benchmark Education Co. Staff and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teacher Guide for corresponding Leveled Text

Book A Whaling Community   New Bedford  Mass   6 Pack

Download or read book A Whaling Community New Bedford Mass 6 Pack written by Gare Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find out about the adventures of sailors who hunted whales in the 1800s and what products were made from whale oil and whale parts.

Book Shallow Graves

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maureen Boyle
  • Publisher : University Press of New England
  • Release : 2017-09-05
  • ISBN : 1512601276
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Shallow Graves written by Maureen Boyle and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community's diverse fabric. In Shallow Graves, investigative reporter Maureen Boyle tells the story of a case that has haunted New England for thirty years. The Crimes: The skeletal remains of nine of the women, aged nineteen to thirty-six, were discovered near highways around New Bedford. Some had clearly been strangled, others were so badly decomposed that police were left to guess how they had died. The Victims: All the missing women had led troubled lives of drug addiction, prostitution, and domestic violence, including Nancy Paiva, whose sister was a hard-working employee of the City of New Bedford, and Debra Greenlaw DeMello, who came from a solidly middle-class family but fell into drugs and abusive relationships. In a bizarre twist, Paiva's clothes were found near DeMello's body. The Investigators: Massachusetts state troopers Maryann Dill and Jose Gonsalves were the two constants in a complex cast of city, county, and state cops and prosecutors. They knew the victims, the suspects, and the drug-and-crime-riddled streets of New Bedford. They were present at the beginning of the case and they stayed to the bitter end. The Suspects: Kenneth Ponte, a New Bedford attorney and deputy sheriff with an appetite for drugs and prostitutes, landed in the investigative crosshairs from the start. He was indicted by a grand jury in the murder of one of the victims, but those charges were later dropped. Anthony DeGrazia was a loner who appeared to fit the classic serial-killer profile: horrific childhood abuse, charming, charismatic, but prone to bursts of violence. He hunted prostitutes in the city by night and served at a Catholic church by day. Which of these two was the real killer? Or was it someone else entirely? Maureen Boyle first broke the story in 1988 and stayed with it for decades. In Shallow Graves she spins a riveting narrative about the crimes, the victims, the hunt for the killers, and the search for justice, all played out against the backdrop of an increasingly impoverished community beset by drugs and crime. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, along with police reports, first-person accounts, and field reporting both during the killings and more recently, Shallow Graves brings the reader behind the scenes of the investigation, onto the streets of the city, and into the homes of the families still hoping for answers.

Book A Whaling Community

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benchmark Education Company, LLC Staff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781410862969
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book A Whaling Community written by Benchmark Education Company, LLC Staff and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress

Download or read book The Last Voyage of the Whaling Bark Progress written by Daniel Gifford and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The whaling bark Progress was a New Bedford ship transformed into a whaling museum for Chicago's 1893 world's fair. Traversing waterways across North America, the whaleship enthralled crowds from Montreal to Racine. Her ultimate fate, however, was to be a failed sideshow of marine curiosities and a metaphor for a dying industry out of step with Gilded Age America. This book uses the story of the Progress to detail the rise, fall, and eventual demise of the whaling industry in America. The legacy of this whaling bark can be found throughout New England and Chicago, and invites questions about what it means to transform a dying industry into a museum piece.

Book New Bedford s Civil War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Earl F. Mulderink
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0823243346
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book New Bedford s Civil War written by Earl F. Mulderink and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social, political, economic, and military history of New Bedford, Massachusetts, in the nineteenth century, with a focus on the Civil War homefront, 1861-1865, and on the city's black community, soldiers, and veterans.

Book Leviathan  The History of Whaling in America

Download or read book Leviathan The History of Whaling in America written by Eric Jay Dolin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Los Angeles Times Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 A Boston Globe Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007 Amazon.com Editors pick as one of the 10 best history books of 2007 Winner of the 2007 John Lyman Award for U. S. Maritime History, given by the North American Society for Oceanic History "The best history of American whaling to come along in a generation." —Nathaniel Philbrick The epic history of the "iron men in wooden boats" who built an industrial empire through the pursuit of whales. "To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme," Herman Melville proclaimed, and this absorbing history demonstrates that few things can capture the sheer danger and desperation of men on the deep sea as dramatically as whaling. Eric Jay Dolin begins his vivid narrative with Captain John Smith's botched whaling expedition to the New World in 1614. He then chronicles the rise of a burgeoning industry—from its brutal struggles during the Revolutionary period to its golden age in the mid-1800s when a fleet of more than 700 ships hunted the seas and American whale oil lit the world, to its decline as the twentieth century dawned. This sweeping social and economic history provides rich and often fantastic accounts of the men themselves, who mutinied, murdered, rioted, deserted, drank, scrimshawed, and recorded their experiences in journals and memoirs. Containing a wealth of naturalistic detail on whales, Leviathan is the most original and stirring history of American whaling in many decades.

Book Not Just Anywhere

Download or read book Not Just Anywhere written by Marsha McCabe and published by Spinner Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holds special interest for anyone involved in historic preservation, architecture, urban renewal or maritime history.If you bulldoze your heritage, you become just anywhere, proclaimed preservationist Sarah Delano. Learn how a group of people took on the task of preserving a valuable part of American history and brought New Bedford, Massachusetts -- the Whaling City -- back from decay and destruction to create a waterfront National Park replete with cobblestone streets and restored buildings.

Book Children of the Light

    Book Details:
  • Author : Everett Allen
  • Publisher : Commonwealth Editions
  • Release : 2014-05-27
  • ISBN : 9781938700262
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Children of the Light written by Everett Allen and published by Commonwealth Editions. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everett S. Allen, through diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts of the period, follows the Quakers from Plymouth Colony to New Bedford, Massachusetts, where these "children of the light" lived and founded an enormously lucrative whaling industry and elevated it to an almost holy activity ordained by God for the enrichment of the "chosen." Allen recounts the full story of a famous 1871 Arctic disaster, in which thirty-two vessels in the New Bedford whaling fleet, carrying 1200 officers and crew, found themselves trapped in gale-driven pack ice. The shipwrecked victims were miraculously rescued without a single loss of human life. The damage to the fleet, however, was something from which New Bedford never fully recovered.

Book Children of the Light

Download or read book Children of the Light written by Everett S. Allen and published by Parnassus Press (IL). This book was released on 1983 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Emanuel and the Hanukkah Rescue

Download or read book Emanuel and the Hanukkah Rescue written by Heidi Smith Hyde and published by Kar-Ben Publishing ™. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Angry that his father is afraid to kindle the Hanukkah lights, Emanuel stows away on a whaling ship. When a storm overtakes the boat, it is his father’s change of heart and the family menorah that light the way home.