Maine Books

Ideal for planing your trip to New England area. You will have several routs to explore this part of the country. Tips, Maps and Photographs that give you a very good picture of your trip. This will help you to don't miss any of the important places of the road.

Maureen Alsop's "Nightingale Habit" is a collection of exquisitely rendered and masterfully crafted poems which captivate the reader with their continually surprising imagery and use of language. The poems are grounded firmly in a concrete reality that is at once familiar and unsettling, requiring the reader to explore his or her own experience of reality from entirely new perspectives, yielding insights that range from the physical to the metaphysical. Alsop's poetry will transport you deeper into yourself, but be prepared: the way in will be filled with shock, humor,and intentionally unbearable beauty.

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This is a comprehensive town history. It is valuable to students of history as well as genealogy.

A profound and wonderful book about life and the north woods of Maine. Nan Turner Waldron writes with the ease of one who has spent childhood summers on a farm in the north woods of Maine and these summers are what sparked her passionate and active works as a conservationist, naturalist, birdwatcher and nature photographer. It is a brave and courageous account of one womans journey to herself. This book is a must read! Another must read is Ms. Waldron's Journey To The Outermost House also on Amazon!

I don't own this book yet, but I have looked at it in libraries. It is a very useful book, and I would love to purchase it. It's just that I don't want to pay out this amount of money for a book right now. Maybe later.

Set in Maine, the book, "Olivia Macllister, Who Are You?" takes place in the present day. It is about the adventure of two 10 year old cousins from New Mexico, who go to visit an uncle for the summer. They discover that they have a 250 year old ancestor "Olivia", a ghost, who still lives in their uncles house. It is a great, easy read for kids 8 years and older. It is filled with mystery and intrigue. Its a great read to get in the mood for Halloween.-

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Ever had a dog? A cat? A mouse in the house? Overnight guests? A motorboat?
Found a treasure in the flotsam along the shoreline? Caskie Stinnett's "One Man's Island;Reflections On Maine Life From Slightly Offshore" will perhaps bring a unique perspective to SOME aspect of YOUR life. Humorous, insightful, and provocative this collection of essays from his column "Room With A View" in Down East magazine is by an extraordinary writer who was formerly Executive Editor of "Travel And Leisure" and "Holiday" magazines. A worldwide traveler, he was, as his time lengthened and experience widened, simply in love with Maine and LIFE. I know how he felt. You too soon will.

Charles Scontras is considered the "dean of labor studies" in Maine, and this book is a good example why. The book covers, in very great detail, the founding of the American Federation of Labor in Maine in 1895 to roughly 1910. The book begins where Scontras' two previous books ("Organizing Labor and Labor Politics in Maine, 1880-1890" and "Two Decades of Organized Labor and Labor Politics in Maine, 1880-1900") left off. In many ways, the book is an example of the "old labor history," and focuses heavily on leaders and unions. That is not a criticism, however: These are the best-documented aspects of the labor movement, and union leaders were the most prominent actors in the period.

Scontras does not neglect common workers, however. In many ways, his book is reminiscent of the style of the legendary labor historian Philip Foner, in that he litters his text with terrific, apt details about the state of working conditions in Maine. Scontras' labor history is not one of men in suits in offices in Portland, but "on the ground" labor history -- lobstermen, textile workers, lumberjacks, sausage makers and others who struggled against incredible opposition to form unions and improve their lives. The book contains a wealth of information about Maine at the turn of the century, and is a real resource.

The footnoting is terrific, with sources and comments at the bottom of each page for easy reference. For a footnote hog like me, that was a huge plus. The book also has a large number of photographs, and reproduces key documents, fliers, advertisements and other ephemera throughout. That, too, is a big plus, and gives the reader a real flavor of the times.

The book also contains two important appendices. One is a history of the important and near-forgotten Lobster Fishermen's International Protective Association. The other is a near-complete listing of every union (local, regional and statewide) in Maine, along with information on dues, officers, membership and more. Both are major contributions to labor history in and of themselves, but serve as mere capstones to this otherwise pathbreaking and eye-opening work.

My only criticism of the book is that Scontras sometimes jumps around chronologically. In a paragraph about child labor laws in 1900, for example, the reader may find Scontras dicussing child labor statistics from 1907 or AFL political expenditures from 1914 to help support his point. It's disconcerting. It would be one thing if Scontras were using the "future stats" to document how effective the legislation was, but that's usually not the case. The information is interesting, but serves more as a distraction and raises the feeling that perhaps there isn't as much support for Scontras' arguments as the author would have the reader believe.

Despite this, Scontras' "Organized Labor in Maine: Twentieth Century Origins" is a readable (even exciting), wonderfully detailed and vibrant history of the origins of the modern labor movement in Maine. For anyone in Maine -- and for anyone interested in labor history -- it really is a must-read.