Timeless Towns and Haunted Places: From Florida to Maine - Hardcover

J. R. Humphreys

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9780312023003: Timeless Towns and Haunted Places: From Florida to Maine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312023006 ISBN 13: 9780312023003

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1989

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Traces the author's travels through nineteen eastern states from Florida to Maine and depicts the cities and towns he found largely untouched by modernization

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From Library Journal:

Timeless Towns and Haunted Places is a rambling, personal, almost ethereal narrative on the adventures and observations of the author and his family as they explore villages and towns that they believe capture timelessness, a feeling of history, or a crossover into the past. The title is misleading; this is not about ghost towns or haunted houses. Rather, it is about looking for an aura of the past, such as evoking evidence of the colonial Dutch in present-day New York City. Their route covered the Eastern seaboard, north to south. While not truly a guidebook, this volume can serve as supplementary travel reading. Not a necessary purchase, however. Beyond the Interstate is stimulating and enjoyable reading as well as being a unique and useful travel guide. Its purpose is to introduce local celebrations and events, ranging from Idaho Spud Day to the Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The arrangement of the book is by region and then season. There is a lively description of each event, with address and phone contact, followed by detailed information on "accommodations with a personal touch," roadside food, very special short bibliographies, and addresses and descriptions of points of interest near the celebration. A real find for the travel shelf.
- Norma Allenbach, Amherst P.L., N.Y.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

America's architectural past is quickly disappearing, yet there are still places tucked away, off the main roads or in pockets of the larger cities, that appear as they did at the turn of the century or before. It is to these places that Humphreys, author of several books on travel, invites the reader. Armed with old maps, he and his wife traveled from Florida to Maine, finding individual structures, neighborhoods and occasionally entire towns that seem untouched by the passage of time. It is a leisurely tour that includes any number of anecdotal side trips, notably of a toilet-fushing ghost and a 300-year-old report of a UFO sighting. An appendix listing restaurants and inns in each town the author visited will assist readers who wish to travel beyond their armchairs. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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