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After decades of worldwide service, this historical vessel now rests peacefully in New York harbor. T oday , Intre pid no longer makes history. Instead , she is the storyteller for America's history and technology on the sea, in the air and out in space. • Five major exhib it th eme halls• Continuous movies &videos • Hundreds of a rtifacts. models and dioram as • more tha n 70 historic a ircrafl , rockcts,capsul es and sa tellites * Destoyer USS Edson • G uid ed Missile Submarine USS Growler
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ports like Malta, where their visibly (and, one supposes, designedly) menacing visages gain strength from the contrast of old brick and stonework with tough new steel and long guns that could reduce their surroundings to rubble in minutes. These masterly paintings do more than illustrate the text; they evoke a vanished era and vanished ways, and the feeling that men had for these ships which did so much to shape the world they sailed in . PS
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Bath Iron Works: The First Hundred Years, by Ralph Linwood Snow (Maine
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The Lighthouses of Hawai'i Love Dean The lighthouses of Hawai'i overlook the rugged shorelines and dangerous channels of some of the most isolated land masses in the world. In these days of automation, Love Dean's history of the lights and the dedicated men and women who built and manned them fills us with nostalgia and pride. $19.95, hardcover To order: Send check, or VISA/MasterCard information (include acct. no., exp. date, and signature). Shipping and handling : $2.00 for the first book and $1 .00 each additional.
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Maritime Museum , Bath ME, 1987 , 671 p, illus, index, biblio, notes, appendices, $45hb) The Maritime History of Maine, William Hutchinson Rowe (Harpswell Press, Gardiner ME, 1948-reprinted 1990, index, biblio, notes, $14.95 pb) At first glance, even devoted maritime history buffs might conclude that Mr. Rowe ' s The Maritime History of Maine and Mr. Snow' s Bath Iron Works: The First Hundred Years are unlikely candidates for an evening of pleasurable reading. But a second, closer look should change their minds. Rowe and Snow, two maritime hi storians whose enthusiasm for their subject infuses their erudition , have encapsulated the facts and figures of four centuries of Down East shipbuilding and seafaring in narratives that come alive with the color and drama of an incredibly rich maritime heritage. "He who would paint a picture of maritime Maine must have a wide canvas and palette holding many colors," the late William Hutchinson Rowe wrote forty years ago when W.W . Norton first published his work (now reissued in paperback by the Harpswell Press). A smal !town druggist in Yarmouth with just a year of college at Colby, Rowe pursued historical research only as a hobby sandwiched between the demands of his business and a busy civic life as town official and state legislator. But the range and thoroughness of his research would do credit to any full-time historian . He spanned three centuries of seafaring and shipbuilding from the first winter fi shing stations on the offshore islands of Maine in the early 1600s to the famed clippers and Down Easters of the late 1800s. Typical of the colorful yarns Rowe weaves into his tapestry is the story of Mugg, an Indian chief who was determined to burn Boston and clear New SEA HISTORY 57, SPRING 1991