The Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine
The Mount Hope Cemetery of Bangor, Maine

Author: Trudy Irene Scee

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609493370

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Mount Hope Cemetery was established in 1834 by the Bangor Horticultural Society to accommodate the growing needs of a booming lumber town. Shortly after it was created, its founders reincorporated as the Mount Hope Cemetery Corporation and proceeded to establish a nonsectarian, horticultural-based cemetery. The corporation began to beautify its grounds, creating walkways, gardens, bridges and ponds--making it the second garden cemetery in the United States and earning it a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. From Bangor mayors, Civil War heroes and a United States vice president to lumber barons and gangsters, the cemetery is the resting place of the city's most colorful and venerable residents. With the erection of monuments and the donation of land, Mount Hope Cemetery also made important contributions to the City on the Penobscot. In the twenty-first century, it remains a popular location for burials and with visitors to its picturesque ground. Join historian Trudy Irene Scee as she celebrates this enduring centerpiece of the Bangor community.

Cemetery Tours and Programming
Cemetery Tours and Programming

Author: Rachel Wolgemuth

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-03-08

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1442263199

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Cemetery Tours and Programming: A Guide shows the range and opportunities of cemetery programming that go beyond basic starting points like dog-walking or traditional historic walking tours. It illustrates the reuses of both historic and contemporary burial grounds through the lenses of recreation, education, and reflection. This guide takes readers through the historical roots of cemetery programming, options for creating diverse programming, and step-by-step suggestions for executing events. While most cemeteries do not have a large paid staff, this book is accessible to anyone (paid staff members, volunteers, a Friends Group, or museum or historical society) looking to broaden the scope of how their local cemetery is utilized.

A Tomb with a View - the Stories and Glories of Graveyards
A Tomb with a View - the Stories and Glories of Graveyards

Author: Peter Ross

Publisher: Headline

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9781472267788

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"Enter a grave new world of fascination and delight as award-winning writer Peter Ross uncovers the stories and glories of graveyards. Who are London's outcast dead and why is David Bowie their guardian angel? What is the remarkable truth about Phoebe Hessel, who disguised herself as a man to fight alongside her sweetheart, and went on to live in the reigns of five monarchs? Why is a Bristol cemetery the perfect wedding venue for goths? All of these sorrowful mysteries - and many more - are answered in A Tomb With A View, a book for anyone who has ever wandered through a field of crooked headstones and wondered about the lives and deaths of those who lie beneath"--Publisher's description.

Explorer's Guide Maine (Sixteenth Edition) (Explorer's Complete)
Explorer's Guide Maine (Sixteenth Edition) (Explorer's Complete)

Author: Christina Tree

Publisher: The Countryman Press

Published: 2012-06-04

Total Pages: 793

ISBN-13: 1581577834

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The Swiss Army knife of guidebooks and the standard by which all other Maine travel guides are judged, this 16th edition of the best-selling guide to the Pine Tree State continues to expand its coverage. Maine: An Explorer’s Guide, the Swiss Army knife of guidebooks, is the standard that all other Maine travel guides are judged by. This sixteenth edition of the longest-established and best-selling guide to the Pine Tree State continues to expand its coverage and is replete with more than 25 detailed maps, as well as listings you can trust for the best lodgings, dining, attractions, shopping, and much more.

The Humane Gardener
The Humane Gardener

Author: Nancy Lawson

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 2017-04-18

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1616896175

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In this eloquent plea for compassion and respect for all species, journalist and gardener Nancy Lawson describes why and how to welcome wildlife to our backyards. Through engaging anecdotes and inspired advice, profiles of home gardeners throughout the country, and interviews with scientists and horticulturalists, Lawson applies the broader lessons of ecology to our own outdoor spaces. Detailed chapters address planting for wildlife by choosing native species; providing habitats that shelter baby animals, as well as birds, bees, and butterflies; creating safe zones in the garden; cohabiting with creatures often regarded as pests; letting nature be your garden designer; and encouraging natural processes and evolution in the garden. The Humane Gardener fills a unique niche in describing simple principles for both attracting wildlife and peacefully resolving conflicts with all the creatures that share our world.

Lady Long Rider
Lady Long Rider

Author: Bernice Ende

Publisher: Farcountry Press

Published: 2018-06-27

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 1560377453

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Riding 2,000 miles on horseback from Montana to New Mexico sounds like a crazy but thrilling dream or pure hardship and exhaustion. According to Bernice Ende, the trip was all that and more. Since swinging her leg over the saddle for that first long ride in 2005 (at the age of 50), Ende has logged more than 29,000 miles in the saddle, crisscrossing North America on horseback - alone. More than once she has traversed the Great Plains, the Southwest deserts, the Cascade Range, and the Rocky Mountains. Along the way, she discovered a sense of community and love of place that unites people wherever they live. From 2014-2016, she was the first person to ride coast to coast and back again in one trek, winning acclaim from the international Long Riders' Guild and awe from the people she met along the way. Bernice Ende's memoirs are illuminated by accompanying maps of her routes and photos from her journeys, capturing the instant friends she meets along the way, and her ongoing encounters with harsh weather, wildlife, hard work, mosquitoes, tricky route-finding, and the occasional worn out horseshoe. Ende reveals her inner struggles and triumphs - testing the limits of physical and mental stamina, coping with inescapable solitude, and the rewards of living life her own way, as she says, "in her own skin." Saddle up and come along for the journey of a lifetime.

Guide to Historical Resources in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Guide to Historical Resources in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo

Author: Elizabeth Macnaughton

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 0889207186

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Guide to Historical Resources in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo identifies the archival collections of over one hundred and seventy-five museums, libraries, archives, government offices, social agencies, clubs and business in the Waterloo region and beyond. It provides a comprehensive approach to surveying the community, and should suggest to the creative research further avenues for investigation. The guide will facilitate access to many areas of historical study, and will be of interest to teachers, students, and researcher of local history as well as members of government and heritage organizations in the Waterloo region. The survey of historical resources was a project of Doon Heritage Crossroads' curatorial and research staff, and was made possible by the work of dedicated volunteers and by the support of the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, the Ministry of Culture and Communications and the Good Foundation.

Women in the World of Frederick Douglass
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass

Author: Leigh Fought

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0199782377

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A biographical study of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass through his relationships with the women in his life that reveals the man from both a political/public and private perspective.

Bea Nettles
Bea Nettles

Author: Jamie M. Allen

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781477319253

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From her hand-colored, machine-stitched photographic prints to her artist’s books and well-known Mountain Dream Tarot card deck, the first-known photographic treatment of the tarot, Bea Nettles’s work has always upended tradition. Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory presents the span of her art across half a century, in conjunction with an exhibition co-organized by the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, and the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, Missouri. Recognized for her innovations in mixed-media photography, Nettles used alternative photographic processes that produced textured works with subjects including self-portraits; investigations of the body and its relationship to nature and landscape; and the experience of mothering, loss, and aging. A tremendously productive artist, Nettle’s work has received critical acclaim, and been acquired into the permanent collections of museums coast to coast. Now, for the first time in her fifty-year career, Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory offers a large-scale retrospective, tracing the journey of an artist who profoundly illuminates our inner worlds.