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The Diaries of Hanna and Rebecca Smith offer a rare glimpse into the inner lives of two young ladies from Martha's Vineyard in the early 1800s. In a practice unusual for rural women of their day, the Smith sisters avoided describing domestic activities. Instead, these diaries from the collection of the Martha's Vineyard Museum reflect their authors' wide-ranging reading, observations of the world around them, and thoughts on mortality.In this volume, Marian Ragan Halperin, former Director of the Museum, has used her knowledge of the Island's history and the Museum's collection to enhance our understanding of these rare documents.

The town of Bedford, Massachusetts, is located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. For nearly one hundred years, this territory comprised the outlying districts of Concord and Billerica; Bedford was incorporated by the General Court in September of 1729. This illustrated history, which covers the town from its earliest settlement to 1891, when the book was originally published, includes information on early Indian claims; Bedford's part in the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; its burial grounds and epitaphs; and a genealogical register of old families.

Twelve-year-old Job lived on a mountain in the Catskills with his grandfather. One December Christmas Eve, when his grandfather had gone to town leaving Job to care for the cow and chickens, a snowstorm arrived, preventing his grandfather's return. Sitting in front of the fire, Job is visited by numerous fairies, who tell him wonderful stories of the world. Upon his grandfather's return, Job is not quite sure - did it actually happen or had he dreamed it? This is a wonderful story of imagination, beautifully written and illustrated. Originally published in 1876.

Irving Van Wart's humorous rhyming travelogue of a journey through Europe—largely Germany and France—was illustrated by his son Ames Van Wart. Originally published in 1864, Van Wart remarks on the prodigious quantities of beer in Germany and describes a donkey ride in Aix, France. Irving Van Wart was named after his uncle, Washington Irving (Washington's sister Sarah was Irving Van Wart's mother). Washington Irving lived with the Van Wart family in Birmingham, England on a few separate occasions, and wrote many of his classic stories there, including ""Rip Van Winkle.""

American philosopher, essayist, and Transcendentalist Amos Bronson Alcott's diary entries from April through September 1869 were originally published as "Concord Days" in 1872. Written at Orchard House, the Alcott home in Concord, Massachusetts, the writings dwell largely on literary matters, family and friends, and the passing of the seasons in rural New England, from spring to summer to fall.The diary subjects range from memories of his deceased friend Thoreau ("The most welcome of companions was this plain countryman. One seldom meets with thoughts like his, coming so scented of mountain and field breezes and rippling springs..."); thoughts about his neighbor Emerson ("A poet, speaking to individuals as few others can speak, and to persons in their privileged moments, he is heard as none other are."); ruminations on favorite readings and conversations; and berries, grandchildren, and Walden Pond.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin,wrote this 1869 novel with the intent of describing aNew England village's life and character in the yearsafter the Revolutionary War, before the advent ofindustrialization. Said Stowe, in the voice of the novel'snarrator Horace Holyoke, "I would endeavor to showyou New England in its seed-bed, before the hot sunsof modern progress had developed its sprouting germsinto the great trees of today." She based some of thebook on the childhood memories of her husband,Calvin Ellis Stowe, and the residents of his birthplace,Natick, Massachusetts.

May Alcott, the youngest of the four Alcott sisters, is best known to readers as "Amy" in the beloved classic "Little Women," written by her sister Louisa May Alcott. Caroline Ticknor's 1928 memoir describes May as the vibrant artist of the family (as was the semi-fictional Amy), with an enthusiasm for beauty, people, and life. A half dozen of May's sketches are included in the book, as is a prelude from renowned American sculptor Daniel Chester French (Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial; the Minute Man statue at the North Bridge in Concord, MA), who credited May with encouraging him to pursue his art.

Back after 45 years, Margaret Sutton's young detective, Judy Bolton, returns for her 39th mystery adventure. At the end of book #38, The Secret of the Sand Castle, the author gave the title of the next book in the series, The Strange Likeness. However, the series was canceled, and the promised book was not written...until now.Beloved author Margaret Sutton (1903-2001) published her first Judy Bolton mysteries in 1932. The original series continued until 1967, making it the longest-lasting juvenile series written by a single author. The books are noted not only for their engaging plots and thrilling stories, but also for their realism and social commentary. To many young girls Judy was an ideal role model-smart, capable, courageous, nurturing, and always unwavering in her core beliefs. Based on conversations with Margaret Sutton and her family, plus extensive research, coauthors Kate Duvall and Beverly Hatfield recreate the magic of Judy and her friends, who find themselves pursuing a criminal who resembles Judy's husband. Courage and keen observation are Judy's trademarks, and theyprove her up to the task once again.

This charming tale for young readers, from beloved American author Louisa May Alcott, is remembered fondly by generations of American girls. The story follows the adventures of sisters Bab and Betty Moss, their new circus-runaway-friend Ben, his dog, Sancho, and a neighbor, Miss Celia. As always, Miss Alcott's writing is filled with gentle life lessons, examples of good and evil, and down-to-earth characters. Under the Lilacs, the seventh book in Louisa May Alcott's series of eight novels for young people, is a perfect book for parents to read aloud to their children.

"Between two tall gate-posts of rough-hewn stone (the gate itself having fallen from its hinges, at some unknown epoch) we beheld the gray front of the old parsonage, terminating the vista of an avenue of black-ash trees."So begins Nathaniel Hawthorne's 1846 sketch "The Old Manse," which leads off this collection of short stories. Hawthorne and his wife Sophia lived at the Old Manse in Concord, Massachusetts from 1842-1845, during the first years of their marriage. The sixteen other selections collected here were all written during the time the Hawthornes lived in the house, today a National Historic Landmark."They should be sold by the hundred-thousand, and read by the million; and admired by every one who is capable of Admiration." -Herman Melville review of "Mosses from An Old Manse"

President Theodore Roosevelt's love of natural history is celebrated in two sketches written by renowned naturalist John Burroughs. The friends shared a two-week trip to Yellowstone in the spring of 1903, in order to observe the wildlife and geologic wonders of America's first national park. The desire was to commune with nature, not to hunt. "I will not fire a gun in the Park; then I shall have no explanations to make," President Roosevelt said. While they had guides, the president was unaccompanied by secret service, personal physician, or secretaries and, remarkably, took an 18-mile trek through hard country completely by himself on one occasion.  "He came back as fresh as when he started..."

"Jack and Jill," which has been out of print for over a decade, was originally published in 1880. It was the last of Louisa May Alcott's eight novels for children that began with "Little Women." Subititled "A Village Story," it is set in Harmony Village, a fictional small New England town. The book tells the story of neighbors and best friends Jack Minot and Janey Pecq, nicknamed "Jill" because she is Jack's constant companion. The two young people go up a snowy hill one December day and suffer a serious sledding accident. The story follows the two and their friends through their recovery, through winter and spring holidays and activities, summer vacation, and back to a new school year. ". . they were just beginning to look about them as they stepped out of childhood into youth . . . There are many such boys and girls, full of high hopes, lovely possibilities, and earnest plans, pausing a moment before they push their little boats from the safe shore."

Nancy Luce, a poor woman in ill health who lived alone and loved her chickens, spent her entire life (1814-1890) on Martha's Vineyard. She also wrote her own unique brand of poetry, which she self-published and sold to the summer trade. Walter Magnes Teller published this appreciation of Luce's life and poetry in 1984, with the help of the Dukes County Historical Society (today the Martha's Vineyard Museum). Said the New York Times, of the work in 1986, "Reading the book makes one wonder how many Nancy Luces and their male counterparts have existed - sensitive people doomed by invalidism and lack of both financial and emotional support, but determined to leave behind some record, some expression, no matter how meager."

As with her prior book King Lehr and the Gilded Age (1935), Lady Decies' Turn of the World (1937) is a fascinating semi-autobiographical history of American high society during the Gay Nineties through the first World War. Upon the book's publication, The Pittsburgh Press wrote, "The magnificent spectacle that went on behind the scenes in pre-war days of society's Gilded Age at Saratoga, Newport, New York and Paris is detailed by an insider, Elizabeth, Lady Decies, who was Miss Elizabeth Wharton Drexel... interesting, amusing and sometimes revolting, as with evident nostalgia she tells of extravagant parties and fortunes spent for clothes and jewels."

Christ Church Philadelphia and its Burial Ground is the final resting place of seven signers of the Declaration of Independence and five signers of the U.S. Constitution, the most famous burial being Benjamin Franklin.

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Otzinachson, or, a history of the West Branch Valley of the Susquehanna embraces a full account of its settlement-trials and privations endured by the first pioneers-full accounts of the Indian wars, predatory incursions, abductions, and massacres, &c., together with an account of the fair play system, and the trying scenes of the big runaway, interspersed with biographical sketches of some of the leading settlers, families, etc., together with pertinent anecdotes, statistics.

Published in 1850, this book provides a comprehensive illustrated guide to iron manufacturing processes in the United States and Europe.