Tragedy in Casco Bay
Author: Stacy L. Welner
Publisher: Tragedy in Casco Bay
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 0975933523
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Author: Stacy L. Welner
Publisher: Tragedy in Casco Bay
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 0975933523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Captain W. Russell Webster USCG (Ret.)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2014-08-12
Total Pages: 135
ISBN-13: 1625851189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn March 22, 1990, local fishermen Hokey Hokanson and his teenage son, Billy, set sail for Cape Cod in the "Sol e Mar." When disaster struck three days later, Billy transmitted a brief, heavily garbled radio distress call. A hoax call immediately followed Billy's cry for help, and believing that the two were connected, the U.S. Coast Guard did not launch rescue units for several days. The Hokansons' deaths prompted a new anti-hoax law and changed United States Coast Guard search and rescue procedures. Historian Captain W. Russ Webster, U.S. Coast Guard (Ret.), and journalist Elizabeth B. Webster chronicle the fascinating story of the "Sol e Mar" and its crew and explain the psychology of hoax callers and Coast Guard technological advancements since the tragedy.
Author: Williams Haynes
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 236
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Clement Colesworthy
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 56
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Rowe Snow
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories of shipwrecks, treasure, wars, fires, and other pieces of history from the Casco Bay area.
Author: William g TAPPLY
Publisher: Éditions Gallmeister
Published: 2016-06-02
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 2404001698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSept ans après le mystérieux accident qui avait effacé sa mémoire, Stoney Calhoun a repris sa paisible existence de guide de pêche, partagée entre la boutique de la belle Kate Balaban et sa cabane isolée dans les bois du Maine. Jusqu'au jour où, sur une île inhabitée de Casco Bay, il découvre un cadavre carbonisé. Peu de temps après, le client qui l'accompagnait est assassiné. Malgré ses réticences, Calhoun est entraîné dans l'enquête du shérif Dickman et ses vieux réflexes reviennent. Casco Bay, la deuxième aventure de Stoney Calhoun, nous amène une nouvelle fois dans les paysages marins du Maine qui laissent peu à peu resurgir les fantômes d’un passé menaçant.
Author: Frances Hill
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2009-06-16
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 0786748389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAgainst the backdrop of a Puritan theocracy threatened by change, in a population terrified not only of eternal damnation but of the earthly dangers of Indian massacres and recurrent smallpox epidemics, a small group of girls denounces a black slave and others as worshipers of Satan. Within two years, twenty men and women are hanged or pressed to death and over a hundred others imprisoned and impoverished. In The Salem Witch Trials Reader, Frances Hill provides and astutely comments upon the actual documents from the trial--examinations of suspected witches, eyewitness accounts of "Satanic influence," as well as the testimony of those who retained their reason and defied the madness. Always drawing on firsthand documents, she illustrates the historical background to the witchhunt and shows how the trials have been represented, and sometimes distorted, by historians--and how they have fired the imaginations of poets, playwrights, and novelists. For those fascinated by the Salem witch trials, this is compelling reading and the sourcebook.
Author: William Goold
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 620
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this book, first published in 1886, the author achieved his goal of preparing a volume of reliable local history which should be entertaining as well as instructive. Mr. Goold begins with Captain Christopher Levett, who settled a plantation in 1623 on an island near the coastal area that would later become the town of Portland, Maine. Beginning with 1623, he spends the remaining 500-plus pages spinning a chronological history of Portland and the surrounding area through the mid-19th century. The author's ability to strike a good balance among the various types of history-social, political, religious and armed conflict-is one reason for the success of this volume. The discussion of numerous individuals who played a role in and influenced the development of the region, such as Governor Robert Gorges, John Winter, Arthur Macworth, Governor Shirley and Governor Andros, to name a few, is another. Conflicts with the displaced Indian peoples were prevalent and came to a head during the First Indian (or Philip's) and Second Indian Wars of the late 17th century. These wars and their effects upon the populace and further settlement have received due attention, as have the later wars such as the French and Indian Wars, the Revolutionary War, the War with Tripoli and the War of 1812. An everyname plus subject index is available."--Heritagebooks.com.
Author: John Stevens Cabot Abbott
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 622
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