Everything one ever wanted to know about the beach plum, its history, botany, nutrition, and best recipes is contained within this book that shows how to find, store, and use these luscious berries and includes 70 delectable dishes, ranging from appetizers through fish and meat, to deserts and beverages. Jellies and jams, entrees and side dishes, muffins and pies, grogs and brandies, they are all here. Includes delightful illustrations, a detailed bibliography, and a thorough index. Elizabeth Post Mirel has summered most of her life on Martha's Vineyard, where she and her family have tried and tested all of the recipes and other directions in this book.

Plum Crazy: A Book About Beach Plums

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Post Mirel, Elizabeth

Regional & International

On Cape Publications

Overflowing with period photographs, illustrations, and maps, this book brings to life a unique age of heroism along the treacherous shores of Olde Cape Cod. In 1902, writer J. W. Dalton set out to visit each of the 13 U.S. Lifesaving Service stations on Cape Cod, from Wood End in the north to Monomoy Point in the south. This book is the result and remains the most minutely detailed account of station life at the high point of the service's existence. Dalton's research covers not only the history of the service and descriptions of each station, but also provides a paragraph on each and every keeper and surfman then serving along the Cape's seashore. He even includes entries on the names and habits of the stations' pets. Dalton even provides space for Keeper Seth Ellis of the Monomoy station to tell his version of the lifesaving disaster of the previous March 17, of which Ellis was the only survivor.

The Life Savers of Cape Cod

History

Dalton, J. W.

Americas

Henry Kittredge recounts the words and deeds of hundreds of Cape Cod skippers. Beginning with the Colonial coasters, Kittredge gives a vibrant chronicle of the voyages, cargoes, and battles. Perhaps more importantly, he paints a captivating portrait of the Cape Cod men who sailed their vessels around the world. Readers come to know the humor, piety, vigor, and resourcefulness with which these rare men carried their cargoes, braving hurricanes, fevers, and pirates all along the way.

Shipmasters of Cape Cod

Kittredge, Henry C.

This classic regional title is a practical hiking guide to one of America's most popular vacation destinations, a historical guide to 19th-century Cape Cod, and a literary guide to one of the world's most beloved writers and philosophers all in one. It includes walking routes—ranging from a quarter-mile to 14 miles, fascinating entries on many of the Cape's most famous historic cites, detailed hiking maps, illustrations of subjects Henry David Thoreau saw and wrote about while on Cape Cod, dozens of inspiring quotes from Thoreau on the "Art of Walking," and informative essays on Thoreau and 19th-century Cape Cod.

In the Footsteps of Thoreau: 25 Historic & Nature Walks on Cape Cod

Literature & Fiction

Gamble, Adam

History & Criticism

Haunted Inns of New England

Jasper, Mark

A lovely coloring book for artists of all ages, created by a true, old-time Cape Codder who also happens to be one of the region's best artists and most knowledgeable historians, James Owens. It features many of the most interesting subjects in the region, including fishermen, the Provincetown monument, lighthouses, historic homes, the Kennedy Clan, submarines, estuaries, lifesavers, pirate ships, and much more.

Coloring Cape Cod Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket

Arts & Photography

Bostonians, like Texans, Georgians, and the British, have their own version of the English language: this is its Rosetta Stone. Natives can brush up on their dialect, and travelers or newcomers to the "Hub of the Universe" can learn how to communicate with the indigenous folk. The Boston Dictionary is now widely considered a classic book of Bostonian Humor, a best-seller wherever books or gifts are sold in Boston.

The Boston Dictionary

Humor & Entertainment

Powers,John

Humor

This is the definitive history and contemporary explorer’s guide to the Quabbin Reservoir. Located in Central Massachusetts, the reservoir is an amazing wilderness with an equally amazing history. The Quabbin has 118 miles of undeveloped shoreline, with surrounding reservation spanning some 81,000 acres of protected open space. The great city of Boston gets all its water from the Quabbin/Ware River/Wachusett watersheds, as do 45 other communities in Massachusetts. This book explores topics such as building the Quabbin and how it works; hiking, wildlife viewing, biking, and fishing; visiting the region’s best waterfalls; Quabbin rules and regulations; as well as information on accommodations, restaurants, camping, orchards, swimming, golf, general stores, crafts, antiques, history, and more.

Quabbin: A History and Explorer's Guide

Michael Tougias

Featuring nearly 50 paranormal events throughout the region, this book has the power to make even the most skeptical among us vulnerable to visits by uninvited guests. Best read by a crackling fire in a house that creaks on a howling snowy night, this collection explores Cape Cod and the Islands that were thought to no longer exist.

Haunted Cape Cod & the Islands

The 39 inns of New England that are profiled in this book have all been visited by the author and have passed his test as among the most stately and elegant in the Northeast, and all of them are haunted. These are tales sworn to be true by the innkeepers and guests who have reported a ghost or presence of someone who checked out long ago.

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Plum Crazy: A Book About Beach Plums

The Life Savers of Cape Cod

Shipmasters of Cape Cod

In the Footsteps of Thoreau: 25 Historic & Nature Walks on Cape Cod

Haunted Inns of New England

Coloring Cape Cod Martha's Vineyard & Nantucket

The Boston Dictionary

Quabbin: A History and Explorer's Guide

Haunted Cape Cod & the Islands

Haunted Inns of New England