The Real McCoy is the biography of the Prohibition-era rum-runner turned national hero whose quality liquor and fair dealing perpetuated the phrase "it’s the real McCoy." Long out of print, this maritime classic has been updated with new text and photographs.

The Real McCoy

History

Frederic F Van de Water

Americas

Flat Hammock Press

On a dock over the coastline's rocky shallows a child and his dog prepare to catch crabs. Dropping a line he has prepared himself, the boy waits - but not too long! One by one the feisty creatures grab the bait. The boy watches closely and pulls. Carefully he plunks his busily munching catch down into a bucket of seawater. Unforgettable, color-washed images of children and dock activity deliver you into this crabbing adventure. The story, told in easy rhyme, is written from a child's point of view. The boy is in charge, completely taken in by his prideful endeavor. At the end, he leaves the dock, taking care to attend to his assembled audience of gulls, happy, successful and ready to go back again soon because, as any young crabber will knowledgeably tell you, if it's summer, it's always a good day for crabbing.

It's Always a Good Day for Crabbing

Children's Books

Karin Whiting Burgess

Action & Adventure

In 1653, Sir Izaak Walton penned The Compleat Angler, the landmark discourse on the joys of fishing. Now, nearly four centuries later, Christopher Arelt and Sebastian O'Kelly (aka The Brown Water Boys) bring you The Offbeat Angler, a modern day take on Sir Izaak's favored sport as told through a collection of amusing fishing stories highlighted by over 100 illustrations. Something fishy is going on, and these two will stop at nothing to cast their flies in big city ponds, polluted canals, highway ditches, nuclear power plant outflows, and other spots where man and beast dare not tread. No technique is off-limits, no species too unusual, as they do battle with carp, shad, bowfin, tarpon and exotic rejects from the local aquarium. Besides some astounding catches, you'll bear witness to a boatload of antics and miscues, meet a host of colorful characters, and wince at an ample creeful of bad fishing puns. So, take a journey to the far side of a fishing life with two of Sir Izaak's 21st Century descendants and share some laughs along the seldom-traveled way in this easy-to-read collection of angling adventures that speaks to the fisherman in us all.

The Offbeat Angler

Sports & Outdoors

O’Kelly, Sebastian

Arelt, Christopher

Hunting & Fishing

Tucked into a corner of Connecticut, Mystic is one of New England's most photographed villages. But few visitors, even most locals, do not have the time or inside knowledge to see all the hidden splendors the region has to offer nor experience its full change of seasons. 
In this stunning collection of color photographs, award-winning photographer Stephen Sisk offers an intimate glimpse of the area in and around Connecticut's most fable village. From the shoreline, with its crashing surf, white sand beaches and many boatyards, to the countryside, where rural back roads lined with rock walls string together quaint boroughs, open fields and working farms, the beauty and diversity of Mystic make it a special home for some and destination for so many others.

Mystic Memories: Photographs

Arts & Photography

Sisk, Stephen

Photography & Video

"The story of a real cat who lived in an old fashioned boatyard." -- back cover.

Scratch the Boatyard Cat

JONES, STEPHEN

Literature & Fiction

Mystic, Connecticut is one of New England's most picturesque villages and it has a colorful history to match.  Historic Glimpses is a collection of wonderful vignettes highlighting the history of Mystic and its surrounding communities, written by local historian Carol W. Kimball and culled from the pages of The Day newspaper.  More than 130 columns and illustrations revisit the people, places, events, businesses and vessels that built, shaped and impacted the region - from explorers to entrepreneurs, quarries to factories, tragic fires to celebrations, and fishing smacks to warships.  Readable and perusable, it provides fascinating insight into this wonderful and special place.  Historic Glimpses will stir memories for some and have others discovering new and surprising episodes of the past.

Historic Glimpses: Recollections of Days Past in the Mystic River Valley

Carol W. Kimball

Charles Robert Patterson (1878-1958) reinvigorated nautical painting by combining nearly a decade of seafaring experience with academic art training. His vision of the ship under sail has influenced every generation of nautical artists following in his wake.

Sailor-Painter: The Uncommon Life of Charles Robert Patterson

Webb, Robert Lloyd

Patterson, Charles Robert

Individual Artists

This is the adventurous, true story of Sinbad, mascot of the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell during World War II, whose exploits became legend. Although famous to thousands of people in many nations, Sinbad was happiest at sea, treading the decks of the sleek Campbell, where he was treated as just another member of the crew. He slept and ate his chow with the men and even had his own battle station. Battles and hurricanes never dulled his love of standing on the heaving deck with spray breaking over his wiry body. To Coast Guardsmen on the Campbell and all over the world he was real hero. This new edition, the first in 60 years, includes photos of Sinbad and an introduction by Mike Walling, author of Bloodstained Sea, The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic 1941-1944.

Sinbad of the Coast Guard

George F. Foley Jr.

Military

Rum Row: The Liquor Fleet That Fueled the Roaring Twenties [Paperback] [Feb 28, 2007] Robert Carse

Rum Row: The Liquor Fleet That Fueled the Roaring Twenties

Robert Carse

In the 177 years since it was first published, Jared Sparks' biography of John Ledyard remains the best source on the life of the explorer who has come to be referred to as "America's Marco Polo."  The book was the culmination of ten years of effort and travel on the part of Sparks and it set a precedent in historical research.  Sparks would go on to be a Harvard professor, serve as that college's president, and write and edit many other works on great Americans.  Today he is included in any "Who's Who" volume of American history.

The Life of John Ledyard, the American Traveller: Comprising Selections from His Journals and Correspondence

Biographies & Memoirs

Jared, Sparks

Travelers & Explorers

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