Most accounts of Amelia Earhart's life barely mention her wedding, except to say she got married-reluctantly. The 2009 movie Amelia, starring Hilary Swank, shows her getting married outside, despite the early February date. Excerpt from Amelia Earhart Was Married Here: Mary Anderson, Curator of the Noank Historical Society, confirmed what my breakfast companion Barbara told me-that Earhart was secretly married in a simple civil ceremony in the square, flat-roofed house I found on Church Street. Learning I was including this information in a book about the area, Mary said, You tell everybody that the wedding scene portrayed in the movie Amelia] is inaccurate. My husband's grandfather, the Groton probate judge, performed the ceremony, and my father-in-law, Robert Anderson, a young Noank lawyer at the time, attended as a witness. When the judge congratulated her after the ceremony, calling her Mrs. Putnam, she replied, 'Please sir, I prefer Miss Earhart.' Note: This booklet, Amelia Earhart Was Married Here, is an excerpt from the book, Mystic Seafarer's Trail. If you already purchased the Mystic Seafarer's Trail, you do not need to purchase Amelia Earhart Was Married Here.

Henry Gale responded to Paul Revere's call to Lexington and was honored as a patriot. Yet a decade later, he was considered a traitor for his leadership role in Shays' Rebellion-a movement to stop courts from prosecuting and jailing the many Revolutionary War veterans unable to pay their debts in the post-war credit crisis. After a military conflict between the insurgents and the militia, Henry Gale was arrested, found guilty of treason and sentenced to "be hanged by the neck until he be dead." Marched up to the scaffold, the gathered crowd watched as the noose was placed around his neck and prayers were said. Moments before this father of young children was to be dropped from the land of the living, the sheriff pulled out a piece of paper and read a statement from Governor John Hancock. This dramatic account was first published in the Daughters of the American Revolution magazine, American Spirit (March/April 2008).

When people think of Mystic, Connecticut, they think of Mystic Pizza. Yet when they visit this quaint seacoast village, they find a lot more than pizza National Geographic named Mystic one of the top "100 Adventure Towns" in the U.S. Mystic Seafarer's Trail is a historical--and sometimes hysterical--adventure book, which includes little known facts behind Mystic's pizza, Amelia Earhart's wedding, hurricanes, cemeteries and massacre, plus information on area shipwrecks, Benedict Arnold's treachery and Ernie the Ledge Light Ghost. Summary: While searching for the "7 Wonders of Mystic" with her beagle/basset hound, author Lisa Saunders uncovers the secrets behind the Titanic's shoes, Captain Sisson's hunt for gold and Amelia Earhart's wedding. But will she ever find an adventure of her own? One that will make her thin and famous? Then it happens: when walking the Mystic Seafarer's Trail (which Lisa designed for those who don't like to go uphill), she meets a blind sailor who invites her on a long, winter voyage. Can this landlubber defy squalls, scurvy, and her fear of scraping barnacles to survive this epic journey? Excerpt Chapter 1: Shortly after stepping out of my new home with my hound for our first stroll through the historic seacoast village of Mystic, a woman pulled over in her van and yelled, "Excuse me." Assuming she was a tourist wanting directions to Mystic Pizza or some other attraction, I wasn't prepared for what she really wanted to know. "Do you realize the back of your skirt is tucked into your underwear?" What a debut in my new hometown-I don't think this is what National Geographic meant when they named Mystic one of the top 100 adventure towns in the U.S...

A test of young courage. Lisa is a chubby city girl searching for friendship and excitement. She leaves home, and the elevators and bullies of a big apartment complex, to spend a summer in the country at her grandparents' farm. Culture shock Accompanied only by her loyal beagle, Donald Dog, Lisa faces a summer in a very different environment with its own challenges and dangers. Using an outhouse is the least of her problems She is terrified of her new pony. Lisa's grandfather is injured by a charging cow and needs her to ride the pony to get help. Remembering Grandma's lesson about how love overcomes fear, she tries to push past her worries to ride alone and obtain the help her grandfather needs. Book includes Study Guide, Workshop for Aspiring Writers, and sample horse facts and worksheets from Cornell University's "Horse Book in a Bucket" Program.

The transcribed letters of Charles McDowell and his wife, Nancy, display remarkable devotion, and offer readers a unique perspective of the Civil War. These letters contain little known details about: hangings, prostitution, amputations, desertions, theft and murder among Union troops. Charles also describes personal contacts with Lincoln and Seward (of "Seward's Alaskan Folly"); battles of Cold Harbor, Jerusalem Plank Road, Monocacy, Opequon, Fisher's Hill, Cedar Creek; the Siege of Petersburg; Mosby's Men; and the Shenandoah Valley and Appomattox Campaign. The Ninth Heavy Artillery was a part of the Sixth Corps. This story is cohesive and informative yet charming and romantic in a very personal way. Vintage photographs enhance the text.