Gardiner on the Kennebec (Images of America)

Prior to the American Revolution, Dr. SilvesterGardiner, a prominent Boston physician, acquiredland on Maine's Kennebec River. His grandson, RobertHallowell Gardiner, later devoted himself to the civic,industrial, educational, and religious development of thecommunity founded there.In this fascinating pictorial history, Gardiner's story istraced from Colonial times to World War II. The imagesdeliver us to intriguing destinations: along the picturesqueKennebec watching the steamer Star of the East sail toits wharf, and Depot Square in 1884 at the peak of therailroad era. We visit an ice house on the river, where"frozen gold" was harvested; Water Street during thedestructive 1896 flood; and Pulitzer Prize-winner Laura E.Richards' "Yellow House," during the visits of her mother,Julia Ward Howe, and her colleague, Helen Keller.