High Time
$28.95In āHIGH TIME,ā Abigail Trafford masterfully braids two worlds: the culture and history of an accomplished East Coast family well anchored in time and place, and the life of an adventurous journalist navigating her way through new territoriesāprofessional and personal in diverse locales including Paris, Washington, D.C., Houston and Australiaās Northern Territory.
Summer Restoration: Rosie Dresser and The Cobblers
$21.00IN 1947āhaving spent the better part of the war as a Red Cross volunteer with Pattonās Third Army in EuropeāRosie Dresser returned to the coastal village of Somesville, Maine where she had spent long and idyllic summers as a child. Unmarried, thirty-eight years old and a Vassar dropout, she bought a decaying house built in 1852 that she named The Cobblerās and restored over the course of the summer with the active involvement of the communityāsummer and local.
The Perfect Assignment: A Memoir of Journalism in the Golden Age
$28.00WRITTEN WITH GRACE, intimacy, candor, insight, and humor, Jonathan Larsenās The Perfect Assignment is a timely, first-hand account of the ascendancy and decline of print journalism over the better part of the twentieth century.
Loaded With Dynamite: Unintended Consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s Idealism
$28.00āLOADED WITH DYNAMITE,ā was the prescient reaction of Woodrow Wilsonās secretary of state when he heard the president promote national self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920. Wilsonās call became a rallying cry to the many rather than the select few for whom it was intended.
Pitch Uncertain: A Mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice
$24.95TOUCHING AND INCISIVE, Pitch Uncertain is a beautifully drawn account of Maisie Houghton’s struggle to find her own voice as the middle child of two parents whose marriage and lives she slowly decoded as she came of age in the 1950s. Growing up in the gentle ambience of Cambridge, Massachusetts, spending full summers in Dark Harbor, Maine, and regularly visiting her relatives in the socially polished reaches of greater New York, Maisie and her two sisters had the makings of an ideal childhood. But their parents were an enigma.
Late Bloomer: A Memoir of School Days
$24.95HALF A CENTURY ON, Nat Bickford revisits the predatory advances of two boarding school masters, one at Phillips Exeter, the other at Williston Academy, whose provocative behaviorāsadistic in one case, tragic in the otherāviolated the genteel codes of prep school life in the late 1950s. Less cynical than Catcher in the Rye and more disturbing than A Separate Peace, the narrative benefits from the distance.
Making Hay: Tales from Oakholm, a farm in Massachusetts
$28.00COMBINING LOCAL HISTORY, family memoir and a naturalist’s simple affection for place, John Jeppson recalls his family’s efforts to adapt a well-loved property to changing times. Bought in 1925 and now hosting a fifth generation of the Jeppson family, Oakholm has been optimistically run as a commercial enterprise in Brookfield, Massachusetts during the better part of a century in which farming has virtually disappeared from the local landscape.
Civil and Uncivil Wars: Memories of a Greek Childhood, 1936 – 1950
$26.95LESS EXTREME THAN the wartime experiences of J. G. Ballard or Jerzy Kosinski but in the same vivid tradition, Civil and Uncivil Wars is a profound, touching, occasionally disconcerting, unfailingly candid, and consistently engaging reminder that the full measure of war and domestic unrest cannot be appreciated without the telling insights of the young.
Driving Backwards
$24.95GILMANTON WAS BRIEFLY the most famous town in America. Today the town, nestled amongst the hills of Central New Hampshire and along the curve of the Suncook River, is a microcosm of the changing ways and enduring values of rural life in the twenty-first century.
Fake Smiles: A Memoir
$26.95FAKE SMILES IS A GRACEFUL, moving and reflective memoir of a contentious father-son relationship set against the backdrop of the Eisenhower and Nixon eras.
Beating the Odds: University of Massachusetts Medical School, A History, 1962-2012
$55.00SINCE ITS INCEPTION fifty years ago, the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, Massachusetts, has kept true to its original mission of training family doctors while defying the odds in becoming one of the nation’s leading centers of biomedical research.