NONFICTION | HISTORY REVISED
“the real thing” —The Courier-Gazette
A “gem”
—Maine Boats & Harbors
Hauling By Hand
The Life and Times of a Maine Island By Dean Lunt
Hauling by Hand tells the remarkable story of Frenchboro, Long Island, which sits eight miles off the Maine coast, making it one of the state’s most remote outposts. It is one of only fourteen Maine islands still supporting a year-round community, while only a century ago, there were some 300 such communities. The island’s roots were set in the 1820s by the Lunt family and a small band of pioneers who together carved an island community from the spruce and granite shores. Fueled by the shipping and fishing industries, Long Island evolved from outpost to vibrant offshore port before economic changes transformed the island into a hardscrabble turn-of-the-century fishing village where nearly 200 residents scratched a living from depleted fishing stocks and rocky soil. Today, the scenic town of Frenchboro has a population of nearly fifty people, but it has neither a general store, nor tourist hotel, nor daily ferry service. Instead there is a village, a soul, and a way of life. U.S. $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-944762-23-0
Nonfiction/History, softcover, 6 x 9, 480 p. Coming Soon
A Maine Summer Island
The Story of Mount Desert Island
The Story of Bustins
By Samuel Eliot Morison
By F. Benjamin Carr
The Story of Mount Desert Island, by Pulitzer Prizewinning historian Samuel Eliot Morison, is part tribute to the glories and beauty of a place and part history of its people who could be “fisherman, sailor, farmer, lumberman, shipwright, and quarryman rolled into one, and master of all.”
Bustins Island lies just offshore from the tourist mecca of Freeport. Carr, a longtime Bustins summer resident, takes readers from the island’s beginnings as a farming community and a stop for fishermen through its days as a yearround community to its transformation into a summer colony. U.S. $16.95 ISBN: 978-1-934031-15-5 Nonfiction, softcover, 5.5 x 8.5, 172 p.
U.S. $15.95 ISBN: 978-1-934031-01-8 Nonfiction/History, softcover, 6 x 9, 116 p.
Here for Generations
The Story of a Maine Bank and its City
By Dean Lunt Here for Generations tells the remarkable tale of a town and a bank that have moved in concert for 150 years. The book captures their sweeping history through triumph and tragedy and brings to life the fascinating people and events that have shaped their journey. U.S. $24.95 ISBN: 978-1-944762-07-0 Nonfiction/History, hardcover (DJ), 6 x 9, 362 p.
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