Legendary Locals of Bristol
Legendary Locals of Bristol

Author: Christy Nadalin

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014-07-14

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1439646171

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The story of Bristol is the story of America, played out on the small stage of a lobster clawshaped peninsula at the heart of Narragansett Bay. From the massacre and displacement of the first Americans to the rise of the merchant class; exploration; slavery; war and peace; the Industrial Revolution; waves of immigrationall these wildly disparate facets of the American experience have been represented and reflected within these 20 square miles. Bristol has been home to patriots and pirates; ministers and murderers; captains who dominated at the helms of whalers, battleships, and 12-meter sailboats; larger-than-life industrialists; Hollywood and Broadway royalty; artists, writers, musicians, and culinary visionaries. But the bulk of the threads in Bristols remarkable tapestry are not bold-colored silk, bright metallic, or rich cashmeremost are simple and natural, unremarkably structured and hued, but each one quietly doing its part to form the strong, tightly-woven foundation of this very special place.

Legendary Locals of Foxborough
Legendary Locals of Foxborough

Author: Jeffrey Peterson

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 146710115X

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The story of a community is best told through the stories of its people. And Legendary Locals of Foxborough by veteran journalist Jeffrey Peterson aspires to do just that. Relying heavily on newspaper files and Foxborough Historic Commission archives, Peterson introduces readers not only to the movers and shakers who made headlines over the past two centuries but also to scores of common folks with decidedly uncommon stories: E.P. Carpenter, 19th-century industrialist and visionary; E.H. and B.B. Bristol, brothers whose Foxboro Company ushered in decades of unprecedented prosperity; outsized personalities like Betty Friedmann, Al Truax, and Herb Seltsam; lanky Gene Conley, Boston Red Sox pitcher and Boston Celtics center; Alex and Sonja Spier, who fled postwar Europe to establish a local real estate empire; beloved Deerfield Academy headmaster Frank Boyden; and renowned educators John Ahern, Mabelle Burrill, and Steve Massey. Images and biographical text on these and other remarkable residents provide a delightful retrospective documenting the rich and spirited community of Foxborough.

Hidden History of Bristol
Hidden History of Bristol

Author: Victor N. Phillips

Publisher: American Chronicles

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781609490478

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Join local author Bud Phillips as he explores the fascinating, and occasionally uproarious, lost tales of Bristol. Legend has it that in 1842 a local slave, Silas Goodson, dreamed of a large city spreading over the hills, and ten years later Bristol was founded on the border of Tennessee and Virginia. Much of Bristol's most unusual history is long forgotten, but local author Bud Phillips's collection of his Bristol Herald Courier columns brings light to the overlooked pages of the past. With stories of a jilted suitor's porcine revenge, the legendary fiddler Nora Cross and the Devil's Hideout and the search for the gold of Rosetta Bachelor, readers will delight in the history that they always wish they knew.

Legends Are Born in Bristol Notebook
Legends Are Born in Bristol Notebook

Author: Legends Are Born Notebook

Publisher:

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 9781676255246

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Legends Are Born In Bristol Notebook: Ruled Notebook For Legendary People Born In Bristol 120 White Lined Pages.A great gift idea for anyone on your list from your region: Wife, Mom, Husband, Dad, Coworker, Mother, Father, Boyfriend, Girlfriend, Boss.For Other Cities and States Just Click On The Author's Name ...

Bristol Urban Legends
Bristol Urban Legends

Author: Wilf Merttens

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2018-06-28

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0750988649

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Bristolians' love of banter and outlandish gossip provides a perfect environment for the urban legend to breed, expand and ferment. One can never be sure that these stories are not in fact entirely true – or that the truth behind them may not be stranger than the legend itself. What one can be sure of is that these stories have been passed, with increasing delight, from child to child, from uncle to aunt, from granddad to everybody, until they have become right rollicking tales. Forget small talk – this here is Bristol Urban Legends.

Legendary Locals of Holyoke
Legendary Locals of Holyoke

Author: Jacqueline M. Sears

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467101818

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Holyoke is home to some of the most amazing and courageous individuals. In 1658, European pioneer John Riley, along with other early planters, was instrumental in establishing a community in the West Springfield area called Ireland Parish, which eventually became known as Holyoke. This tenacious man led the way for many other trailblazers, including George Ewing, who envisioned utilizing hydropower to operate factories and inspired town engineers to design one of the first planned cities in the United States. In 1898, the progressive Elizabeth Towne encouraged Holyoke residents and an international audience with her New Thought movement that advocated a healthy lifestyle. Another outstanding citizen, Timothy Alben, judiciously leads the Massachusetts State Police, while Holyoke's Henry Jennings honorably served his country in the armed forces, as a commander of the Holyoke War Memorial Building, and on the Holyoke City Council. Barbara Bernard has astutely kept residents informed about current events for the last 70 years. Legendary Locals of Holyoke chronicles the community's finest men and women who survived and prospered through harsh circumstances and against all odds.

Bristol
Bristol

Author: Peter Aughton

Publisher: Carnegie Pub.

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 9781859360675

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The Little Book of Bristol
The Little Book of Bristol

Author: Maurice Fells

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2015-07-06

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 0750965436

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The Little Book of Bristol is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and trivia. A rich, and indeed sometimes bizarre, thread of history weaves its way through the ‘Bristol story’. Find out all manner of things from why local women were allowed to hang out their washing at a local beauty spot to why local bye-laws restrict carpet beating to certain hours. Along with a fresh look at city life past and present, these and many more anecdotes will surprise even those Bristolians who thought they really knew their city.