Description: Hidden History of Maine, Maine, Hidden History, Paperback Discover four hundred years of Maine's history through the tales of its unique residents.Maine history would be bare but for the contributions of hardy and impassioned individuals whose lives make up the story of Maine's "hidden history." Author Harry Gratwick creates intimate and detailed portraits of these Mainers, from the controversial missionary Sebastien Rale to Woolwich native William Phips, whose seafaring attacks against French Canada earned him the first governorship of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Gratwick also profiles inventors such as Robert Benjamin Lewis, an African American from Gardiner who patented a hair growth product in the 1830s, and Margaret Knight, a York native who defied nineteenth-century sexism to earn the nickname "the female Edison." From soprano Lillian Nordica, who left Farmington to become the most glamorous American opera singer of her day, to slugger George "Piano Legs" Gore, the only Mainer to have ever won a Major League batting championship.
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Restocking Fee: No
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All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money back or replacement (buyer's choice)
Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9781596298156
Book Title: Hidden History of Maine
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Item Height: 0.3 in
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Historical, Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General
Publication Year: 2010
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Photography, Biography & Autobiography, History
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Harry Gratwick
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Book Series: Hidden History Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback