Download or read book Tragedy in Casco Bay written by Stacy L. Welner and published by Tragedy in Casco Bay. This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Maine Coast Romance Ye romance of Casco Bay written by Herbert Milton Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shipwrecks and Other Maritime Disasters of the Maine Coast written by Taryn Plumb and published by Down East Books. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With its incessant fogs and infamously craggy coast, Maine has long been a bane of mariners. Scores of vessels and countless lives have been lost on its rocky shores. Taryn Plumb explores the tragic history of shipwrecks in Maine, focusing on a dozen or so of the most interesting and weaving in tales of pirates, lost treasure, violent storms, and other disasters. Maine’s role in shipbuilding is legendary, and the history of vessels meeting their demise here is equally compelling.
Download or read book Tragedy at Chu Lai written by David Venditta and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicky Venditti, a U.S. Army helicopter pilot with a love of fast cars and practical jokes, went to Vietnam in 1969 and was dead in 11 days, killed by an Americal Division grenade training explosion at Chu Lai. The full story of the incident did not come out until the author, David Venditta (a different spelling), Venditti's cousin, made a chance discovery that began a decades-long effort to find out exactly what happened, what the Army did about it and who was held responsible. This book documents the Army's mishandling of the incident and the effects on the families and friends of Venditti and of the two other young soldiers who died with him.
Download or read book The Sol e Mar Tragedy off Martha s Vineyard written by Captain W. Russell Webster USCG (Ret.) and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the "Sol e Mar." When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cry for help, and believing that the two were connected, the U.S. Coast Guard did not launch rescue units for several days. The Hokansons' deaths prompted a new anti-hoax law and changed United States Coast Guard search and rescue procedures. Historian Captain W. Russ Webster, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), and journalist Elizabeth B. Webster chronicle the fascinating story of the "Sol e Mar" and its crew and explain the psychology of hoax callers and Coast Guard technological advancements since the tragedy.
Download or read book Tragic Views of the Human Condition written by Lourens Minnema and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can tragic views of the human condition as known to Westerners through Greek and Shakespearean tragedy be identified outside European culture, in the Indian culture of Hindu epic drama? In what respects can the Mahabharata epic's and the Bhagavadgita's views of the human condition be called 'tragic' in the Greek and Shakespearean senses of the word? Tragic views of the human condition are primarily embedded in stories. Only afterwards are these views expounded in theories of tragedy and in philosophical anthropologies. Minnema identifies these embedded views of human nature by discussing the ways in which tragic stories raise a variety of anthropological issues-issues such as coping with evil, suffering, war, death, values, power, sacrifice, ritual, communication, gender, honour, injustice, knowledge, fate, freedom. Each chapter represents one cluster of tragic issues that are explored in terms of their particular (Greek, English, Indian) settings before being compared cross-culturally. In the end, the underlying question is: are Indian views of the human condition very different from Western views?
Download or read book The History of Maine written by John S. C. Abbott and published by Ravenio Books. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic history of Maine includes the following chapters: I. Voyages of the Northmen and Other Early Explorers II. Voyages of Thevet, Pring, de Monts, and Weymouth III. The Expedition of Governor George Popham IV. The Failure of Popham’s Colony, and Its Attendant Results V. Explorations and Settlements VI. Progress of Settlements VII. Colonial Jealousies and Alienations VIII. The Province of Maine Annexed to Massachusetts IX. Political Agitations X. The First Indian War XI. The Horrors of War XII. Wars and Woes Continued XIII. Campaigns in the Wilderness XIV. King William’s War. — Queen Anne’s War XV. The Rival Claims of France and England XVI. British and Indian Diplomacy XVII. The Vicissitudes of War XVIII. The Progress and Termination of Lovewell’s War XIX. The Doom of the Indian XX. The Old French War, and the War of the Revolution Commenced XXI. The War of the Revolution: Falmouth in Ashes XXII. The War of 1812, and the Separation XXIII. Peace and Prosperity XXIV. The Scandinavian Immigration XXV. The Picturesque Attractions of Maine XXVI. Maine in the War of the Rebellion XXVII. Maine in the War of the Rebellion, Continued XXVIII. Agriculture and Manufactures XXIX. Popular Education
Download or read book Maine Pioneer Settlements written by Herbert Milton Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ye Romance of Olde Pemaquid written by Herbert Milton Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Olde Pemaquid written by Herbert Milton Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Creating Portland written by Joseph A. Conforti and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007-08-31 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only comprehensive study of Portland s history, culture, and people."
Download or read book Granite State Monthly written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Granite Monthly written by Henry Harrison Metcalf and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Salem Witch Trials Reader written by Frances Hill and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.
Download or read book Portland in the Past written by William Goold and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, first published in 1886, the author achieved his goal of preparing a volume of reliable local history which should be entertaining as well as instructive. Mr. Goold begins with Captain Christopher Levett, who settled a plantation in 1623 on an island near the coastal area that would later become the town of Portland, Maine. Beginning with 1623, he spends the remaining 500-plus pages spinning a chronological history of Portland and the surrounding area through the mid-19th century. The author's ability to strike a good balance among the various types of history-social, political, religious and armed conflict-is one reason for the success of this volume. The discussion of numerous individuals who played a role in and influenced the development of the region, such as Governor Robert Gorges, John Winter, Arthur Macworth, Governor Shirley and Governor Andros, to name a few, is another. Conflicts with the displaced Indian peoples were prevalent and came to a head during the First Indian (or Philip's) and Second Indian Wars of the late 17th century. These wars and their effects upon the populace and further settlement have received due attention, as have the later wars such as the French and Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, the War with Tripoli and the War of 1812. An everyname plus subject index is available."--Heritagebooks.com.
Download or read book Olde Cascoe written by Herbert Milton Sylvester and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
