Unknown New England - Softcover

Marcus, Jon

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1414020023 ISBN 13: 9781414020020

Publisher: 1st Book Library, 2003

Synopsis

Think you know New England? Think again. Sure, the area is home to many of America's most famous tourist destinations, but its woods, hills, craggy seacoast, and historic cities also hide these nearly 1,100 other extraordinary attractions that are just as—if not more—interesting than the places that get all the ink. A museum brimming with artifacts from the Titanic, for example, the site of the first liquid-fueled rocket launch, and the field where the first World Series was played. There’s the town in Vermont that was the site of a little-known battle in the Civil War, the only place in America shelled by enemy guns during World War I, and the real Pepperidge Farm. You can ponder the sites of presumed Viking settlements, Stonehenge-like ruins, ghost towns, graves of reputed vampires, and the tombstone of a 3,800-year-old Egyptian mummy—in a cemetery in Vermont. Or check out the town that was the model for Riverdale of the Archie comic books, Al Capone's bar, a ! Cold War-era nuclear missile silo, and the laboratory where Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

Many tiny New England museums are largely unknown, but their holdings are superlative, including the world’s largest collections of mounted dinosaurs, antique trolley cars, and Hollywood memorabilia. There’s a collection of postage stamps second in size only to that in the Smithsonian Institution, and the only museum in America devoted to indoor plumbing. Hidden in these small depositories are Marie Antoinette’s harpsichord, the case that carried Louis XV’s crown jewels, the world’s largest ring, a compass owned by Galileo, the skull of Blackbeard the pirate, the bones of a whale found mysteriously buried 150 miles from the ocean—even Elvis Presley’s gallstones.

So don’t wait. Discover the secrets of unknown New England

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About the Author

Jon Marcus is a lifelong New Englander, born in Boston and schooled in Maine, who began his professional career on Cape Cod. He is the editor of Boston Magazine and writes about travel for Yankee and Conde Nast Traveler, and for newspapers including the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and Washington Post. His stories on other topics have appeared in the Melbourne, Australia, Sunday Herald Sun, The Independent (London), and in the magazines New York Times Upfront and the American Journalism Review. He has won several journalism awards.

Marcus is also the author of Our Boston (Voyageur Press, 2003) – which Foreword Magazine called "packed with information" and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel said "brings Boston to life through interesting, little-known details" – Lighthouses of New England (Voyageur Press, 2001), and The Complete Illustrated Guidebook to Boston's Public Parks and Gardens (Silver Lining Press, 2002). A U.S. education correspondent for The Times of London, Marcus previously was a full-time Boston-based reporter for The Associated Press. He began his career as a writer at The Cape Cod Times. He is a graduate of Bates College in Maine, Oxford University and the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University.

About this edition

• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1414020023
• ISBN 13: 9781414020020
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208