Download or read book The Jonesport Raffle written by John Gould and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the legendary story of a man in Jonesport (or was it Dexter or Waterford or Litchfield?) who raffled off his horse, which incidentally had been dead for some time, these twenty-nine tales cover the length and breadth of Maine and extend back to the sixteenth-century fishing camps that were set up a hundred years before Jamestown and Plymouth. Learn about the origin and history of “schoolmarms,” along with other classic tales on Down East thrift, the evils of drink, Maine weather, lumbering folklore, and Paul Bunyan. These yarns often pull your leg, so keep a sharp eye! Such a collection makes for an encyclopedia of the great cultural achievement of Mainers, which has been compared to the Rosetta Stone and the birth of Chaucer. But essentially The Jonesport Raffle is a book of the highest humor that will be a source of infinite enjoyment.
Download or read book The Jonesport Raffle and Numerous Other Maine Veracities written by John Gould and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Haunted America written by Michael Norman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-09-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coast-to-coast tour of places that eyewitnesses claim have been, and may still be, haunted, from the former Peoria State Hospital in Illinois to San Diego's historic Whaley House Museum.
Download or read book Twelve Grindstones written by John Gould and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve Grindstones continues the laughter and wisdom, the leg-pulling and the literate chuckling of John Gould. Starting down the road to hilarity, there are some old stories and some new stories, all of them great stories from the canon of Maine folklore. Within are some long and some tall tales about blueberry picking, railroading, wood buying, lobster wars, and bootlegging. So sit down and put your feet up and prepare for some of the most amusing, preposterous, and heartwarming tales you’ve likely heard in a very long time. You’re in for a treat.
Download or read book Old Hundredth written by John Gould and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You know that fall is here and winter comes soon when the summer people leave and Maine is restored to righteousness." So says celebrated essayist John Gould in this wonderful collection inspired by the changing of the seasons in Maine. These forty-nine essays revel in the seasonal magnificence the state has to offer and offer just enough humor, seasoned with country lore and wisdom to keep you turning the pages as you read in front of the wood stove on a cold winter afternoon. No wonder the critic Mark Kramer said, "If there is reincarnation, I'm selfish enough to wish that the next time around John Gould would come back as a writer again."
Download or read book Stitch in Time written by John Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1985-04-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If there is reincarnation, I'm selfish enough to wish that next time around John Gould would come back as a writer again." —Mark Kramer in the Wall Street Journal In these observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village, Mr. Gould addresses important matters. For example, there is the question of why there are two churches in a town of 800 souls, some of whom were atheists. It seems that the split between the two congregations was a matter of both free will and logic. The devotional division was caused by the question of whether Balaam's ass spoke or whether Balaam just said his ass spoke. There is more, wonderfully much more, in this joyful journey into the mind and memory of John Gould: how giving a child a calf to raise provides "top-notch instruction in agronomy, economics, subsistence, and merchandising," as well as milk in the shoes; how lobstermen can communicate without uttering a word; or his comment on women's yearning for equality: "If lovely woman stoops for the folly of equalizing herself with man, God's great mistake, she deserves what she gets." John Gould, as everyone knows, lives in Friendship, Maine. He is the author of twenty books, most recently his first novel, No Other Place. A Maine writer, he is a national treasure.
Download or read book Maine s Golden Road written by John Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine's Golden Road is a memoir of the annual vacation John Gould took for thirty-two consecutive summers with his daughter's father-in-law, Bill Dornbusch.
Download or read book This Trifling Distinction written by John Gould and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unparalleled tall tales and heroes wander freely through this collection of John Gould's "reminiscences" of life in Maine. Here you'll find stories of unlicensed Maine guide Flint Johnson and his group of Yankees and Red Sox ball players, the time L.L. Bean invited the whole town of Freeport to help him choose the best ax, and Gould's grandfather's claim to have fired the shot that started the Battle of Gettysburg. Gould does not wish his memories to be in any way taken as an autobiography, but rather they are intended to convey just how much fun he has had living and writing in Maine.
Download or read book There Goes Maine written by John Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1990-08-17 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maine's nationally acclaimed chronicler proves here that "the entire history of North America began in Maine." Long before Columbus sold Isabella his idea of a passage to Cathay, Irish fishermen went ashore in Maine to dry their cod. It's all here in this wild surmising history, from a columnist for the Christian Science Monitor.
Download or read book It is Not Now written by John Gould and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is Not Now is collection of stories based upon real life, as well as a reflection on lost ways and changing values. It is a celebration of the eccentric people and lives of small towns all across Maine. Gould's wise, charming, and irreverent writing, honed by half a century of acute observation and practice of his craft, brings the American past to life even as it finds humor and hope in the American present.
Download or read book Maine Lingo written by John Gould and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Gould's family first settled in Maine in 1618, so by the time he came along in the early 20th century, the Gould's were well steeped in the vernacular of the region, and his first inheritance was the turned-around, honed-down, and tuned-up language of his farming neighbors who seldom strayed beyond the village store. Maine Lingo was first compiled in 1975, when TV, radio, and other leveling media had begun to seriously erode regional speech distinctions, and this dictionary will furnish anyone interested in Maine or regional dialects with the terminologies of regular folks, from lobstermen to farmers to woodsmen. Altogether it is a fun and fascinating collection of lore, humor, and straight information that will have you able to tell your billdad from your wazzat in no time flat.
Download or read book The Book Buyer s Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The New York Times Book Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1970-04 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Short Essays written by Gerald Henry Levin and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fodor s New England written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
