Forever Yours, Boston, Cape Cod and the Islands: Antique Postcard Images of Historic Beantown and Beyond - Softcover

Brechlin, Earl

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1944762426 ISBN 13: 9781944762421

Publisher: Islandport Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Forever Yours, Boston, longtime journalist and author Earl Brechlin provides a fascinating look at Boston using more than one hundred antique postcard images to highlight such famous landmarks as Old North Church, Boston Public Library, and the Boston Market. Brechlin, a postcard collector, offers interesting information to accompany the images, which include scenes from early 20th Century Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard. Brechlin is also the author of Forever Yours, Bar Harbor, which features antique postcard images of the famous Maine resort town and Acadia National Park.

About this title

About the Author

Earl Brechlin, a long-time Maine journalist, has written several nonfiction books featuring Maine, including hiking guides and Forever Yours, Bar Harbor, a book of antique postcard images. After graduating from the University of Maine, Brechlin moved to Mount Desert Island where he worked as an island gardener. After first taking a job in the print shop, he soon rose to serve as editor of The Bar Harbor Times for nearly 20 years and was then founding editor of the Mount Desert Islander in 2001. Brechlin, now communications director for Friends of Acadia, is also a registered Maine Guide, a model railroad enthusiast, and sometimes attends comic book conventions to tout his Ancient Alien Expert business, offering interested parties potential degrees in Ancient Astronaut Theory, Cryptozoology, Zombie Survival, and Middle Earth History. He lives in Bar Harbor with his wife Roxie, a retired kindergarten teacher

Edition details

• Publisher: Islandport Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1944762426
• ISBN 13: 9781944762421
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120