This previously unpublished memoir of George N. Cross, born in Methuen, Mass. in 1853, is a vivid picture and historical account of rural life in the 1800's of a small town in Massachusetts along the Merrimack River caught between the two emerging and thriving cities of Lawrence and Haverhill. His detailed descriptions of his home and the ways of the farm offer a real flavor of a bygone era. George N. Cross was a true Renaissance man of his day. For many years Cross was the Headmaster of the Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter, NH and then became a celebrated world travelling lecturer. His Yankee values and pride in his community and family comes through in his writing.

Written in 1934, Shay based his work of the life of famed pirate Mary Read on the available histories. In this delightful novel she is depicted as a fetching pirate wench who roams the Romantic Carribees, despoiling shipping and taking lovers. Read lived disguised as a boy by her mother, from an early age, as an adult she proved herself in the military, and aboard ships. When a West Indies bound ship that she was on was taken by pirates, she was forced her to join them. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, the female pirate Anne Bonny. The rest as they say, is history.

"This book is so good that even someone who knows nothing about cooking can tell from these recipes how the dishes will taste. There are many recipes in it that you won't find in other cookbooks. " Daily Boston Globe, 1947. A brand new edition, not a PDF reprint. Fully indexed.

A super-compendium of money-saving and money earning tips that are often overlooked. Tips for household, office, family and personal money saving in today's depressed economy. Some are your basic 'whack on the side of the head', other suggestions are best practices for couponing, pet, home and car care. Contents: Personal Advice Dealing with Friends and Family Clothing Reading Material Viewing Material Entertainment Eating In Eating Out Health Food Shopping Food Storage Cooking Couponing Non-Food Baby Fix things Climate Control Electricity Water Laundry Yard Communication & Data Devices Financial Transportation Traveling Pets Reduce Recycle and Reuse Decluttering How to Earn a Little More Samples: Save your pocket change but don't count it just bring it to the bank when you go and put it in your savings account. Learn how to make craft cocktails at home, save money and impress your friends. Have a hemming party Borrow a sewing machine invite friends and family bring their clothes to be hemmed items over. Have your doctor write you a three month prescription - then you only pay one co-pay instead of three. Stock piles aren't just for disasters, if you have a week or a months worth of food you can dip into it to tide you over when you run out of food money. Don't forget to fill it up again. Think of it like your own food bank

In August 1878, Rev. Pliny Steele Boyd, then of Amesbury, Mass. and his sons Wendell and Parsons took a month long sojourn up the Merrimac River from Powow River in Amesbury, Mass. to Passaconnaway Island in New Hampshire and back again.. Joined by Mrs. Boyd for the Amesbury leg of the trip, they soon were battling the Merrimac's strong current for a 50 mile journey, through Northern Massachusetts and Southern New Hampshire, traveling by canal lock and portage the rapids, even once by dray wagon. A boys own adventure of camping, swimming and fishing in their own backyard. Pliny Steele Boyd, (1836-1887), was a Congregational clergyman, he wrote mostly for religious periodicals. He and his wife Mary Jane Allen (1836-1905), had six children all of them boys.

During the 1920's, Rev. Frederick Hayward was active in the Christian League of Methuen and as well as being an avid local historian, writing the Merrimack Valley Fact a Day column for the Lawrence Telegram. In many ways, this exhaustive history of the First Congregational Church of Methuen, Massachusetts mirrors the history of the City of Methuen. It lovingly covers the very early history of the town, the ministers and the various meeting houses, including the splintering and later absorption of the Second Parish, and the many generous endowments of the devoted Congregation members. The Appendix contains a complete census of Deacons and Roster of Members up to 1929.

Author and feminist, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward (1844-1911) was an early advocate of clothing reform for women, urging them to burn their corsets. This memoir originally published in 1896 and serialized, recounts anecdotes from her life in Massachusetts towns of Andover, Gloucester, Newton, and elsewhere. Over her long life she was friendly with: Celia Thaxter, Lucy Larcom, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lydia Marie Childs, Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriet Beecher Stowe.

If you are putting together a bug out bag for yourself and your family, don't forget the rest of your loved ones. Your pets are dependent upon you at home and away, and pre-planning for their care in an emergency is how you have to keep them happy and healthy until you return home. This extended article (8K word) is a comprehensive reference, covering the complete emergency supply list for all your pets: dogs, cats, and other small household pets. It includes a full checklists of materials and product recommendations for First Aid Kits and Bug Out Bags. Chapters include: Why prepare an evacuation kit? Where are you evacuating to? What should you bring with you? Emergency Information What if you are not at home? First Aid for Pets Bug out Bag for Dogs Dog Evac Checklist Bug out Bag for Cats What do you do if your cat gets loose? Cat Evac Checklist Bug Out Bags for Other Housepets Additional Resources J. Godsey, is a publisher, editor and ghost writer with Sicpress.com. She has been doing pet and wildlife rescue for over 12 years; as well as working with Animal Rescue Merrimack Valley in Massachusetts and Animal Rescue Veterinary Services of Londonderry, NH, and Wolf Adventure wildlife rescue and rehabilitation of Goffstown, NH. She has brought her experience with animal handling to her community's Community Emergency Response Team. Your purchase goes towards animal rescue care and rehabilitation.

Maurice B. Dorgan's book contains a wealth of pragmatic knowledge on the city. A compendium of facts about every conceivable topic related to the history of Lawrence, Massachusetts. An invaluable tool constantly in use by researchers over the years. From the history of the eagle atop City Hall to Industrial Upheaval of 1912. This modern volume, was assembled with the cooperation of the Lawrence Public Library, to be an efficient reference edition, including a comprehensive index to all its contents. Forward by Louise Sandberg, Special Collections Library, Lawrence Public Library.

This previously unpublished memoir of George N. Cross, born in Methuen, Mass. in 1853, is a vivid picture and historical account of rural life in the 1800's of a small town in Massachusetts along the Merrimack River caught between the two emerging and thriving cities of Lawrence and Haverhill. His detailed descriptions of his home and the ways of the farm offer a real flavor of a bygone era. George N. Cross was a true Renaissance man of his day. For many years Cross was the Headmaster of the Robinson Female Seminary in Exeter, NH and then became a celebrated world travelling lecturer. His Yankee values and pride in his community and family comes through in his writing.

Leverett Bradley Jr. served in the First Massachusetts Heavy Artillery for nearly 4 years and was witness to some of the most intense fighting of the Civil War. At 15 years old he had joined his father's military unit, as did his eleven year old brother Jerry. During this time the he wrote home constantly. For a person so young his letters were wonderfully written gives the impression that he wanted to share his experiences with those he loved. Slightly wounded on more than one occasion, Leverett, Jr. survived the war and mustered out as a first lieutenant. Turning to the church he found his calling as a minister in the Episcopal Church and died in 1902. In memoriam, his widow, Susan Hinckley Bradley, privately published these letters and some sermons written in his honor in 1905.

Written in 1888, Howe revises his early version, doubling its length by including twelve more years of research. Scare for many years, this volume includes material not found in other Methuen histories. Joseph Sidney Howe was born in 1832 and was a direct descendant of one of Methuen's founders. He later became Town Clerk and served in that position probably longer than any other clerk. Was one of the founders of the original historical society and became its first president and wrote a number of Methuen History articles for various publications. In 1876 he wrote "Historical Sketches of Methuen and in 1888 revised this material into his longer work "History of the Town of Methuen" In 1923 Joseph Howe died at the age of 91. This edition has a preface by Stephen N. Zanni, Mayor of Methuen.

Written in 1927, Cross' book is the story of Dolly Copp, who settled in Pinkham Notch in the 1840's. Dolly's husband, Hayes Dodifer Copp, built their farmhouse to provide lodging and meals to travelers going north to Gorham and Randolph. About her husband, Dolly is famous saying "Hayes is well enough. But fifty years is long enough for a woman to live with any man." George N. Cross's Dolly Copp and the Pioneers of the Glen was originally published in 1927. Cross is the author of Randolph old and new: its ways and its by-ways and My Childhood in Pleasant Valley published in 2012 by SicPress. Cover image: "Peabody River."

Rain, Hail and Baked Beans combines two things New England is famous for recipes and weather. The recipes are contributed by Miss Duncan Macdonald well known Boston radio-broadcaster and food columnist, with cheerful Yankee interludes by almanac publisher Robb Sagendorph. This beloved classic from 1958, has many of our childhood comfort foods and those of our parents. It is a staple of the New England bookshelf.

This is the Large Print Title. A super-compendium of money-saving and money earning tips that are often overlooked. Tips for household, office, family and personal money saving in today's depressed economy. Some are your basic 'whack on the side of the head', other suggestions are best practices for couponing, pet, home and car care. Contents: Personal Advice Dealing with Friends and Family Clothing Reading Material Viewing Material Entertainment Eating In Eating Out Health Food Shopping Food Storage Cooking Couponing Non-Food Baby Fix things Climate Control Electricity Water Laundry Yard Communication & Data Devices Financial Transportation Traveling Pets Reduce Recycle and Reuse Decluttering How to Earn a Little More Samples: Save your pocket change but don't count it just bring it to the bank when you go and put it in your savings account. Learn how to make craft cocktails at home, save money and impress your friends. Have a hemming party Borrow a sewing machine invite friends and family bring their clothes to be hemmed items over. Have your doctor write you a three month prescription - then you only pay one co-pay instead of three. Stock piles aren't just for disasters, if you have a week or a months worth of food you can dip into it to tide you over when you run out of food money. Don't forget to fill it up again. Think of it like your own food bank

The Town of Methuen Massachusetts in nineteen hundred and three: pictorial souvenir issued in connection with the Old Home Week celebration. An up-to-date booklet, for the visitor, the resident, and for transmission to show something of Methuen, one of the most attractive suburban towns of the Old Bay State.

A unique collection of delicious recipes from 1927. Contributions from the women of Methuen's First Congregational Church. Contributions from the women of Methuen's First Congregational Church Major contributors are Mrs. Maude A. Buswell, Miss Florence Dodge, Mrs. H.A. Dodge, Mrs. J. A Emerson, Mrs. William Enos, Mrs. E. W. A. Jenkinson, Mrs. Charles H. Oliphant, Mrs. Charles E. Russell, Mrs. George Tenney, Mrs. Hattie A. Wardwell.

Excerpted from the longer volume Sketches of Andover, this volume details the accusations, tortures, trials and executions of the Andover citizens victimized by the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s. During the Salem witch trials in 1692, more than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft and twenty were executed. Over forty Andover citizens, mostly women and their children, were were accused and arrested for witchcraft. More than any other town in New England, including the most confessed witches, and the highest number of children arrested. Three Andover residents, Martha Carrier, Mary Parker, and Samuel Wardwell, were convicted and executed. Five others either pled guilty at arraignment or were convicted at trial: Ann Foster, Mary Lacey Sr., and Abigail Faulkner Sr. (daughter of Andover's minister, Francis Dane) in 1692 and Wardwell's wife Sarah and Rev. Dane's granddaughter, Elizabeth Johnson Jr. in 1693. Those who were not executed were granted reprieves by Gov. William Phips, but the convictions remained on their records. In 1713, in response to petitions initiated in 1703 by Abigail Faulkner Sr. and Sarah Wardwell, Massachusetts Governor Joseph Dudley reversed the attainder on the names of those who were convicted in the episode. Eventually, the colony admitted the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. Since then, the story of the trials has become synonymous with paranoia and injustice, and it continues to beguile the popular imagination more than 300 years later.

Jeremiah N. Reynolds (1799-1858), an American newspaper editor, lecturer, explorer and author who became an influential advocate for scientific expeditions. Reynolds gathered first-hand observations of Mocha Dick, an albino sperm whale off Chile who bedeviled a generation of whalers for thirty years before succumbing to one. Mocha Dick survived many skirmishes (by some accounts at least 100) with whalers before he was eventually killed. In May 1839, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine published Reynolds' "Mocha Dick: Or the White Whale of the Pacific," the inspiration for Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick. In Reynolds' account, Mocha Dick was killed in 1838, after he appeared to come to the aid of a distraught cow whose calf had just been slain by the whalers. His body was 70 feet long and yielded 100 barrels of oil, along with some ambergris. He also had several harpoons in his body.

The true story, of a woman who survived 18 years of slavery, saw her family ripped apart by greedy masters, her mother and siblings sold off, and witnessed the beginnings of the Civil War in St. Louis, Missouri before she escaped to Lawrence, Massachusetts and freedom.

A handy guide for booksellers and book collectors offering practical advice on how to improve the quality and look of your books and ephemera. Finally a book on book repair for the rest of us. Clear, easy to follow directions for repairing books at home or in the shop. Includes torn pages, shaken spines, library pockets, bookplates, stickers, crayon, writing, insects, leather care and much more. 88 pages.