Rhode Island Books

This book is a welcome addition to nineteenth century history: the story of a fascinating but almost forgotten New England woman who was involved in many social movements of the century. Written with clarity and depth, the author's research and expertise is abundantly evident. Fascinating, informative, absorbing and a good read!

By far the most engaging real deal college guide I've seen in all my four years anxiously awaiting to go to college in this godforsaken retirement community town my parents decided to move to following the WTC attack. RISD, it turns out, is not always the shizzdee its reputation would imply.

This is a great book if you are doing a report. I highly recomend it. Very informative. Interesting

This is a smashing little book! I picked it up, looking for a few little interesting tidbits to help me plan a surprise weekend away to celebrate our anniversary. The authors are clever, witty and know all the best little secrets. If you're looking for a great way to find those little known hideaway moments, this is it!

Gary has produced another excellent dive guide. As always it is well writen and informative. Full of history's and locations of the wrecks. A fine addition to the library.

I've had the pleasure of knowing Howard Stone since I was a kid and there is no one more devoted to Bike Riding in Rhode Island. If you are a Rhode Islander and are taking up Biking or are a Biker moving to our area, this one is really worth picking up.

Scott P. Morin, WebMaster, [e-mail]

This is an excellent book with lots of great quality black and white photos. I think anyone interested in Rhode Island history, particularly Smithfield Rhode Island history will love this book. I grew up in Smithfield and have been away nearly 30 years and learned more about my hometown in a an hour than I ever did growing up.

Imagine seeing old buildings that you went by a thousand times but had no idea what they originally were for or driving up a street over and over again and not knowing that it was named after a WWI hero who died during the great war. After all these years I finally learned what at the time wasn't that important to me but is very important to me now.

It was a thrilling journey for me and what made it even better is that I actually know two of the three authors who were very kind to me growing up. They may not remember me but I was a Smithfield Police explorer in the 70's and all three of the authors were at one time police officers. In fact, I was actually in the building manning the phones at the time the group photo was taken of the police officers in one of the pages int he book. It was one of those, "I knew excactly where I was at the time of this photo" moments.

This book brought back a flood of memories for me. Those happy carefree times of my youth. I remembered my schools, my first love, those adults that were such a great and positive influence to me and many of them are in this book! I would like to congratulate and thank the authors for their hardwork and I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves the old town as much as I. Thanks for the memories.

The Smithsonian Natural Guides are my new bibles for travel. Who really cares about those guides for motels, restaurants and cheesy attractions anyhow? These guides take one to the real America behind (and often above) the tourist traps!

Finch and Wallen team up to the best of their expertise with splendid descriptive writing and photography (the latter always a trademark of this series!). Cape Cod, The Berkshires, the Connecticut and Rhode Island Coasts as well as other areas of natural interest are brought right to the reader and make you want to go there immediately and see what you've just read about.

Vietnam Veteran Frank Gryzb came up with an excellent way to convey the many details of the Vietnam war. He interviewed 15 Veterans ranging from infantry men to nurses to cooks and more. The Veterans tell us in their own words what they felt and experienced every step of the way. Gryzb's format took us from the day these kids first enlisted, or were drafted, to the day the book was published some 30 years later. There was a section on nearly everything you could think of. Gryzb would briefly preface each section with some quality information and then the various Veteran quotes would follow. All the bases are covered here, everything from smells to sights to comic relief and everything in between. There is no bias here whatsoever. It's very up close and personal. You really feel like you know these people by the end of the book. But, more importantly you have an accurate account of the various things that happened in that time period as a result of the war. What a great book! This book is highly recommended.

Mrs. Fiske has carefully sorted through early documents and developed a thorough and friendly history of the Thomas Cook line. She presents new thoughts, supports them with evidence, and makes this book a very valuable resource for those working anywhere along this line. Two fat! volumes may be obtained (be sure to tell Amazon which, or both, that you want) and you'll learn more than you ever dreamed possible about the Cooks. There are a few errors as can be expected in a work of this size (Grandpa's middle name was Orlando, not Oleander) but they appear minor in relationship to the vast number of entries.