Download or read book The Real Mystery of Block Island written by Arthur Kinoy and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Block Island Mystery written by Christopher J Dacey and published by Out of the Past Mysteries. This book was released on 2021-05-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its October 1970. Out of work police detective Duke Jameson is asked to investigate the mysterious deaths of two male students at the University of Rhode Island. As soon as Jameson arrives on campus, hidden forces begin to work against him. A missing professor, a corrupt sheriff, an eccentric millionaire, campus drug pushers, and more than one beautiful woman draw him into the Block Island Mystery

Download or read book The Block Island Mystery written by Christopher J. Dacey and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-02-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its October 1970. Out of work police detective Duke Jameson is asked to look into the mysterious deaths of two male students at the University of Rhode Island. As soon as Jameson starts his investigation, hidden forces begin to work against him. A missing professor, a corrupt sheriff, an eccentric millionaire, campus drug pushers, and more than one beautiful woman draw him into the Block Island Mystery.

Download or read book Stone Wall Freedom The Slave written by David Lee Tucker and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stone Wall Freedom: The Slave," the final book in David Tucker's enthralling historical trilogy, contains unforgettable drama and poignancy and is a beautifully written final piece of the puzzle. It abounds with complex characters and richly evocative images, and Tucker's stunning conclusion is as surprising as it is perfectly suited for tying all the loose ends together. With "The Slave," David Tucker just might have saved the best for last.

Download or read book Aesop s Mirror written by Maryalice Huggins and published by Sarah Crichton Books. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everything I needed to know about Fox and Grapes mirror, I knew the moment I first saw it" What antiques restorer Maryalice Huggins knew when she stumbled across the mirror at a country auction in Rhode Island was this: She was besotted. Rococo and huge (more than eight feet tall), the mirror was one of the most unusual objects she had ever seen. Huggins had to have it. The frame's elaborate carvings were almost identical to a famous eighteenth-century design. Could this be eighteenth-century American? That would make it rare indeed. But in the rarefied world of American antiques, an object is not significant unless you can prove where it's from. Huggins set out to trace the origins of her magnificent mirror. Fueled with the delightfully obsessive spirit of Susan Orlean's The Orchid Thief, Aesop's Mirror follows Huggins on her quest as she goes up against the leading lights of the very male world of high-end antiques and dives into the historical archives. And oh, what she finds there! The mirror was likely passed down through generations of the illustrious Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island. Throughout history, mirrors have been seen as having mystical powers, enabling those who peer into them to connect the past and the future. In Aesop's Mirror, Maryalice Huggins does just that, creating a marvelous, one-of-kind book about a marvelous, one of-a-kind American treasure.

Download or read book Entering the World of the Small Church written by Anthony G. Pappas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000-11-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This demonstrates amazingly, with unflinching honesty and a wonderfully redeeming sense of humor, a resource especially helpful in motivating change and growth by mobilizing the natural strengths of small churches. For you who have been looking for a reliable guide to interpret the world of the small church, look no further since this provides all the insights you need. Includes images and models and strategies that reflect the profound uniqueness of the small church. It clearly shows leaders how to lead within the dynamics and culture of the small congregation. This is theologically sound and eminently practical. A must reading for anyone who is or plans to be a leader in a small church. Excellent for small roup study.

Download or read book The Islander written by David Lee Tucker and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sea captain Alexander Hawkins has returned to his Block Island (RI) home after an extended voyage, and little has gone well in his absence. The family farm is struggling and his sweetheart greets him with cool contempt. In addition, the political atmosphere in the spring of 1776 is charged, as the American colonies scramble against the British. Many Sons of Liberty insist that freedom from British rule means freedom for all men, black and white. Yet many patriots wonder about losing their profits without slaves. Who will survive and what will it take to rekindle Alexander's passion to continue the fight for slave freedom? "Stone Wall Freedom--The Islander," the second book in Tucker's trilogy, picks up the threads of the original story and weaves a new one all its own. Drawn from the Block Island landscape, this historical fiction was written "as a tribute to the microcosm of the struggle for freedom that the men and women, both free and slave, faced on this blessed little land."

Download or read book Rhode Island a Bibliography of Its History written by Committee for a New England Bibliography and published by Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England. This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1963 with total page 1152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Download or read book A History of Block Island written by Samuel Truesdale Livermore and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Palatine Wreck written by Jill Farinelli and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its neighboring territories in what is now southwest Germany. The 105 passengers and crew on board-sick, frozen, and starving-were all that remained of the 340 men, women, and children who had left their homeland the previous spring. They now found themselves castaways, on the verge of death, and at the mercy of a community of strangers whose language they did not speak. Shortly after the wreck, rumors began to circulate that the passengers had been mistreated by the ship's crew and by some of the islanders. The stories persisted, transforming over time as stories do and, in less than a hundred years, two terrifying versions of the event had emerged. In one account, the crew murdered the captain, extorted money from the passengers by prolonging the voyage and withholding food, then abandoned ship. In the other, the islanders lured the ship ashore with a false signal light, then murdered and robbed all on board. Some claimed the ship was set ablaze to hide evidence of these crimes, their stories fueled by reports of a fiery ghost ship first seen drifting in Block Island Sound on the one-year anniversary of the wreck. These tales became known as the legend of the Palatine, the name given to the ship in later years, when its original name had been long forgotten. The flaming apparition was nicknamed the Palatine Light. The eerie phenomenon has been witnessed by hundreds of people over the centuries, and numerous scientific theories have been offered as to its origin. Its continued reappearances, along with the attention of some of nineteenth-century America's most notable writers-among them Richard Henry Dana Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, Edward Everett Hale, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson-has helped keep the legend alive. This despite evidence that the vessel, whose actual name was the Princess Augusta, was never abandoned, lured ashore, or destroyed by fire. So how did the rumors begin? What really happened to the Princess Augusta and the passengers she carried on her final, fatal voyage? Through years of painstaking research, Jill Farinelli reconstructs the origins of one of New England's most chilling maritime mysteries.

Download or read book Island Conspiracy written by Scarlett Doyle and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Brewster finally accepts that he is burned out as a Boston attorney, and when he discovers that his live-in love interest has been sleeping with one of the firm’s partners, he becomes desperate to recover from his disintegrating life. As advised by his therapist, he gets away from Boston and rents a beach house on Block Island for three months. His vacation is picture-perfect until Hurricane Edwina moves up the coast and Ben is forced to hunker down overnight in a cellar as the category 4 hurricane hits. At first light, he eagerly searches for treasures that the storm blew onto his beachfront. He spies tangled ropes heaped over what looks like a rubber raft and scrambles to his new possession, which turns out to be a prized Zodiac. When he pulls away the debris, he finds a woman sprawled in the bottom. The woman, Mel Yarrow, begs Ben to hide her. Men are looking to murder her because of a secret plot she inadvertently discovered while reading through some papers at work. He finally agrees to let her stay at the beach house. That decision drives him into her deadly world and he becomes a target for murder. Mel is drawn into the mysterious, paranormal world of Block Island. She meets an old woman in a cemetery who has powerful visions of these killers and warns Mel. To survive, Ben and Mel know that they need to stop the execution of the plot before the killers find them.

Download or read book The Christmas Traveler written by Lars Trodson and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a story that occurs during the Christmas season. Many of the characters in this story you may recognize, even though you have never met most of the them before. The city where it takes place is real, yet it doesn't exist. "The Christmas Traveler" is a story about the beautiful magic of those things that should remain permanently unknown." --

Download or read book Block Island written by Samuel Truesdale Livermore and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book ESCAPE OF A BlOCK ISLAND ARTIST written by Ted Merritt and published by Author House. This book was released on 2014 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This small book has three strands. First, it is about escaping from the workaday world. Second, it is about using art and to some extent music to escape; and it is about Block Island, Rhode Island, which is a popular tourist escape destination. Block Island, referred to by some as one of the five most beautiful places in the world, is an outdo or paradise well worth a visit. with a setting fifteen miles due south from Rhode Island out into the Atlantic Ocean, it offers its entire perimeter of beaches and bluffs to the public as well as its interi or greenway walking trails. Approximately 43 percent of the island land is open space. It is therefore no surprise that the island population swells from approximately a thousand in the winter to more than fifteen thousand in the summer. the painting on the cover depicts a double-ender sailboat of the type that Block Islanders used in the 1920s and 1930s. Block Islanders used the double ender to fish and travel back and forth to the mainland. the boat is remembered in the Block Island annual Fourth of July double-ender parade as a small, versatile craft that could sail well in heavy air, be hauled out on the beach f or safekeeping at night, and could carry large loads of fish. the hull comes to a point at the bow and again at the stern to split the waves breaking in the front and back. It carried stones from the beach f or ballast until they were jettisoned and replaced by a like weight in fish. from twenty-five to forty feet in length, with a crew of two, this was the only mode of transportation to and from the island f or many years. the painting reflects an image in my head, and I created it on an eleven-by-fourteen-inch canvas in heavy body acrylic. the robust and almost primitive style of the art is offered to represent the weather-oriented life and nature of early islanders. I often escape from daily life by imagining my hand on the tiller of this boat in a storm. It was with that feeling that I used the paintbrush to cut the unique curves in the painting. In this book I talk of looking into one's head f or escape, satisfaction, and comfort. Most Block Islanders, because of the nature of their isolation, also have learned, in my opinion, to look inward f or satisfaction and comfort and to escape. During the past decade, I have come to know Island visitors as a resident, as a water taxi driver in New Harbor, and as an artist in the Spring Street Art Gallery. It appears to me that most people come to the island with visions of escape in their minds. Island visitors and residents, f or the most part, have chosen to escape from the mainland-- or America, as Islanders describe it--to enjoy a more relaxed life surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean. Willy-nilly describes life on the island, spontaneous and haphazard! This story is autobiographical with a philosophical flavor. the paintings reproduced in these pages are my interpretation on the escapist theme. the paintings argue that f or me becoming an artist was a good way to escape. Singing was another! Singing and painting are two of the ways I have chosen to escape. When painting, I never use a photo or any other document to guide my artistic production. Reaching into my head has turned out to be fun, and writing about escapism has also turned out to be fun! I conclude that it is fun to escape! Perhaps an exploration of what is in your head will result in a new artistic pursuit!

Download or read book Lost at Sea written by Michael Goss and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother pleads with her son not to sail on a certain steamer because she has dreamt - three times in a row - that the vessel will never reach its destination. Modern-day observers watch in awe as a ghost ship - blazing from bow to stern - dutifully reenacts a two-hundred-year-old tragedy that the observers'' fathers and grandfathers also watched reenacted with the same sense of awe. A crewman walks past a solitary figure seated in the ship''s restaurant only to turn a moment later and find the restaurant empty. A red glow appears in the darkness ahead of a modern warship, and the faint outline of an old galleon, her sails in tatters, is seen approaching against the wind - only to vanish a moment later before the startled eyes of observers. Such strange events have been seen for centuries and continue to be reported even today by witnesses who are, for the most part, sober and responsible human beings. In Lost at Sea folklore specialist Michael Goss and George Behe, an expert on maritime disasters, explore what lies behind these amazing narratives and enduring legends.

Download or read book Block Island written by Donald A. D'Amato and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Block Island explores the evolution of the small, 7-by-3-mile island that lies between Point Judith, Rhode Island, and Montauk Point, New York. In 1637, Block Island, also known as "New Shoreham," was claimed by Massachusetts soldiers who took the land away from the Manisses Indians. When the island was sold to 16 proprietors in 1660, the history of Block Island as part of Rhode Island began. At any time of the year, Block Island has a special look and charm of its own. In addition to its beautiful sandy beaches and thundering surf, the island is plentiful with rolling hills, fertile valleys, and ponds. Within these pages, meet the early residents of the island and learn how this farming and fishing community first developed as a summer resort destination in the late 1800s. Summer scenes from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including views of the steamers that arrived daily carrying thousands of passengers from New York, Connecticut, and other parts of Rhode Island, are also featured in this collection.