Katharine Lee Bates, the author of America the Beautiful and the most honored native-born resident of Falmouth, Massachusetts, lived on Cape Cod from 1859 to 1871. In Voice of the Tide, readers get to know the Falmouth of her youth and how this little strip of silver shore influenced her life and writing. Katharine described herself at this time as a shy, near-sighted child, always hiding away with a book. By the time she was eleven years old, she was a precocious, erudite child whose favorite writers were Charles Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, Louisa May Alcott, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Voice of the Tide recalls Katharine s earliest poetry, journal entries, and school compositions made while attending the Village Grammar School. At a young age Katharine confronts the realities of death and the hardships of a life raised by a widowed parent. She reflects on the people, lifestyles and habits of the town with its collection of crusty seafarers, diligent farmers, and pious Christians ever maintaining her independent thought and progressive ideas. Katharine Lee Bates was a respected scholar during her lifetime (1859-1929), writing 23 volumes of prose and poetry and 31 diverse works as an editor and translator. Her passion for writing began as a child in Falmouth and continued while she was a student at Wellesley High School and as a post-graduate student for two years at Newton High School. In 1880, she was president of the second graduating class at Wellesley College and joined the faculty in 1886, where she taught English literature for 39 years. In Voice of the Tide, Leonard Miele introduces Katharine Lee Bates to a new generation of readers and shows how her childhood on Cape Cod influenced her thinking and writing all her life. It was in Falmouth where she acquired the Yankee values of independence, hard work, and common sense. Voice of the Tide is a reconstruction of the Falmouth that Katharine Lee Bates knew as a young girl and the writings that were inspired by this fair sea-village, wrapt in its pearly haze.

Voice of the Tide: The Cape Cod Heritage of Katharine Lee Bates

Biographies & Memoirs

Leonard Miele

Community & Culture

Spinner Publications, Inc.

Under Sun, Stars and Sails is the story of a 19th century family s real-life adventures at sea during two whaling voyages. This intimate account tells a unique story of Nantucket whaling master, Captain Joseph Marshall and his wife, Malvina Pinkham Marshall who became partners in the whaling industry while at the same time devoted themselves to each other and created a distinctive family life with their young daughter, Helen as they sailed the world s wide oceans in search of whales. Joseph had been at sea since he was seventeen, Malvina was the well-educated daughter of a noted whaling master, and Helen, a precocious child, was destined to become a world traveler. While all three are familiar figures in the literature of Nantucket and New England whaling, nowhere do they appear together as a family sharing long sea voyages. Nor has anyone previously told the detailed story of their trips across the Atlantic and their adventures in the vast reaches of the Pacific. But now Under Sun, Stars and Sails offers a narrative richly laden with information gleaned from archived letters, unpublished memoirs, journals from private collections, and ship s records a story that not only gives an authentic account of the Marshall family s life at sea, but also contextualizes their triumphs and challenges in the unique era of American history between 1851 and 1861. The importance of the Nantucket and New Bedford whaling industry, the social and demographic impact of the California Gold Rush, the rise of the anti-slavery movement, the outbreak of the Civil War, and the discovery of petroleum all make it clear that America was undergoing evolutionary change. Many books with similar topics focus on the drama, danger, and documented details of whaling this account offers personal and familial insight into life aboard a whale ship through the eyes and experiences of the ship s captain, his wife and young daughter as they sail around the world.

Under Sun, Stars and Sails

Marsha Hall Brown

After Moby-Dick, An Anthology of New Poetry is comprised of sixty-one poems, all based on Melville s great novel and written since 2000 by thirty-three contemporary American poets. Two of the poets featured in the anthology are residents of the New Bedford area and have published collections of poetry with Spinner Publications: Laurie Robertson Lorant, author of The Man Who Lived Among the Cannibals and Everett Hoagland, author of This City and Other Poems. Hoagland also edited Spinner s Ocean Voices: An Anthology of Ocean Poems. Recognizing that Moby-Dick, itself a seafaring epic song, inspired numerous poets during the twentieth century, After Moby - Dick editors conducted a national search for twenty-first century Moby-Dick poetry. From approximately 100 submissions, they chose thirty-three poets to contribute to the anthology. Using those poems as the nucleus for the anthology and drawing on other poems related to Moby-Dick by established twentieth-first century poets, After Moby-Dick is the stunning and memorable result. The anthology includes prefaces by both editors: Elizabeth s focuses on Moby-Dick-inspired poetry primarily of the twentieth century, establishing a poetic and historical context for the poems in the anthology; Kylan s preface focuses on the diversity and contemporaneity of the poems focusing on their style and subject matter contained in the anthology itself. The anthology is divided into two parts: Re-Presenting Moby-Dick sets forth poems in relation to the narrative of Melville s novel, the appearance of its characters, and the order of its events and images and Re-Incarnating Moby-Dick groups poems in relation to a range of concepts represented in the novel. Although some of the poets in After Moby Dick do not yet have national recognition, others included in the anthology such as Dan Beachy-Quick and Jessica Cuello are both well-known and highly regarded poets.

After Moby-Dick: An Anthology of New Poetry

Elizabeth Schultz & Kylan Rice

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Paul Cuffe (1759-1817), was born on Cuttyhunk Island in Massachusetts to African and Native American parents. Largely self-educated, he rose to become a widely-known paragon of virtue and commitment to improving the well-being of his fellow man, especially the people of Africa and the African diaspora. This book focuses on clarifying or resolving uncertainties about three aspects of his remarkable life: the purpose of his travels to Africa; the nature of his relationships with several important persons who contributed significantly to his success; and the various properties that he owned in and around the town of Westport including their locations, how and why they were acquired, and the purposes for which he used them 
 Review 
Paul Cuffe may well have been the best-known African American in the Early Republic. He enjoyed private audiences with statesmen in Washington, bankers in London, and headmen in Sierra Leone. David Cole, Betty F. Slade and Richard Gifford s meticulous research and insightful analysis show that we can only understand Cuffe s exalted standing in the Atlantic World if we recognize that he was a product of the New England Coast. We can only understand his rise to international renown if we remember his roots in the farms, shipyards and Quaker Meeting House of Westport, Massachusetts. --James Sidbury, author of Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the Early Black Atlantic. Oxford University Press, 2007

Paul Cuffe: His Purpose, Partners and Properties

David C. Cole

Betty F. Slade

Richard Gifford

Portuguese Spinner: An American Story is the first attempt to capture, in popular form, the saga of Portuguese migration and the people's struggle to build a new life in America. This diverse collection includes oral history, folk tales, original literary contributions, scholarly reports and popular journalism. Hundreds of photographs portray the magnificent beauty of the Portuguese islands and the mainland, and take us into the many corners of American life where Luso Americans have left their mark.

Portuguese Spinner: An American Story

History

Joseph D. Thomas

Donna Huse

Marsha L. McCabe

Americas

An inspiring, true rage-to-riches memoir of a woman who comes of age in gritty 1970s New Bedford, Massachusetts. On a whim, she takes up bricklaying--and ends up paving her way as an entrepreneur in a man's world. A Benjamin Franklin Award Finalist.

Brick by Brick: A Woman's Journey

Lynn Donohue with Pamela Hunt

This is the second textbook in the Bom Dia! Portuguese language curriculum. Like its predecessor, Bom Dia! Level 2 will meet Portuguese language requirements for grades 7-12 and will stimulate learning with hundreds of colorful photographs. But it does more! This follow-up book includes an overview of the world’s Lusophone cultures, in countries and regions where Portuguese is the official language: their national identity, geography, history, people, customs, and more. Students will go beyond mainland Portugal to learn about the autonomous regions of Madeira and the Azores, as well as Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome, Angola, Mozambique, and East Timor.

Bom Dia! Level 2 - Portuguese Language Textbook (Portuguese Edition)

Marcia Matos

Sara Neto-Kalife

Reference

These 37 poems—elegant, witty, sometimes disturbingly direct—explore public and private worlds and their surprising intersections. Often set in a distinctly unpicturesque New England, they are poems about sex, love, death, and aging, about the pressures of the marketplace and the ambiguities of human relationships.

Throwbacks: Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

James Bobrick

Poetry

If God had a divine plan for Thomas Harrington, he made it abundantly clear right from the start. Saint Lawrence Roman Catholic Church and Fire Station 5 loomed side by side across the street from Thomas’s boyhood home in New Bedford, Massachusetts. It was a foreshadowing of what would become his life’s work: the priesthood and the fire service. Thomas grew up to become Father Harrington, a catholic priest in the Diocese of Fall River, and eventually Monsignor Harrington. Meanwhile, he served as fire chaplain for several departments. While the firefighters responded to the call to save lives, Fr. Harrington answered his own call, to save souls. Together they worked and prayed…and shared some of the most dramatic, gut-wrenching, joyous, and awe-inspiring experiences imaginable. From raging conflagrations such as that which leveled Fall River’s Notre Dame Church in the 1980s…to the solemn march through Worcester in remembrance of six brothers lost in the smoke and flame of a warehouse in the 1990s, Msgr. Harrington’s journey—his own call to save—has brought him joy and sadness, compassion and courage. Above all, it has brought great admiration for the brave men and women of the fire service. This memoir is a tribute to them.

A Call to Save: The Memoir of a Fire Chaplain

Thomas J. Harrington

Leaders & Notable People

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