Blending personal reminiscence and history, this affectionate look at the life on Martha's Vineyard in the recent past and present chronicles its change from a predominantly farming and fishing community to a tourist haven

Martha's Vineyard: An Elegy

History

Allen, Everett S.

Americas

Little,Brown & Co

A rousing tale of American nautical lore and skullduggery, The Black Ships reveals a little-known, intriguing episode of American history. One of the nation's best-kept secrets, rum-running during Prohibition provided fast bucks for adventurous boatmen along the Atlantic Coast. The Black Ships unfolds the saga of the smuggling fleet that, at great risk, illegally imported liquor to America's shores. Drawing on interviews with rumrunners and their kin, government reports, and some of his own boyhood memories, Everett S. Allen reveals how the Coast Guard bravely tried to stem the flow of liquor, and how, in boats too fast to catch, the rumrunners circumnavigated the law.

The Black Ships: Rumrunners of Prohibition

Little,Brown

First Edition. AUTHOR SIGNED along with the name of the person it was to. on half title page, in blue ink. The dust jacket is in very good shape except for a couple of tiny tears at the top of the binder area. Binding is tight(not sure the book was actually ever read). Page edges have tiny yellow spotting(from age). No must or mold. Illustrated with B&amp;W photos, reproductions and 2 maps. 302 pages

Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet

Discusses the settlement of New Bedford by the Quakers, their development of the whaling industry, and the events surrounding the destruction of the Arctic fleet in 1871

Business & Money

Parnassus Imprints

A wry memoir of life on the Vineyard from the author's childhood there in the 1920s until the early 1980s.

Martha's Vineyard, an Elegy (Allen Reprints)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Commonwealth Editions

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Martha's Vineyard: An Elegy

The Black Ships: Rumrunners of Prohibition

Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet

Children of the Light: The Rise and Fall of New Bedford Whaling and the Death of the Arctic Fleet

Martha's Vineyard, an Elegy (Allen Reprints)