Canoeing the Charles: Images and Field Notes from 1902-1912

Sports & Outdoors

Ralph Frederick Perry

Water Sports

Hollis Publishing Company

Father and son have teamed up to share their baseball knowledge with kids of all ages. Nine easy-to-read chapters offer baseball tips that every youngster should know and learn to become a better player. Included in each chapter are photos and words of encouragement from former Major League Baseball players, who have a genuine interest in today's young baseball players.

Hey Dad, Wanna Play Catch?

Children's Books

Hughes, Jim

Hughes, Nick

For ten year-old Tessy, there's nothing better than spending the summer with Gramps at his Maine house. But this summer was different, when Gramps shows Tessy an unfinished tourmaline necklace meant for her grandmother. Gramps tells Tessy about working in Maine's tourmaline mines as a young man, and immediately the two are set upon revisiting the lost mine and finding a tourmaline stone to finish the necklace.    In an narrative story told from the point of view of Tessy, the little girl and her grandfather equip themselves for a trip to old mines and find a secret cave where Gramps had years earlier found tourmaline to start the necklace gift. Mustering her bravery, and thanks to her small size, Tessy is able to crawl into a part of the cave where no one else had been able to reach and finds a piece of Maine's famous "watermelon" tourmaline to finish the necklace.     Through Tessy's eyes we see how family ties are reinforced through shared tasks, and how the rarest gems are not necessarily those taken from the ground, but those we find in our own lives as we show love, exchange gifts, and create family legacies.

Tessy and the Lost Tourmaline Mine

Cravatts, Sara

Campaign for President: The Managers Look at 2000 is a behind-the-scenes account of the country's oddest presidential election, as recounted by those who called the shots. In February 2001, the Kennedy School's Institute of Politics hosted its quadrennial gathering of the candidates' key decision-makers. The meeting was a lively, humorous, and endlessly educational exchange. The Managers Look at 2000 is a record of that weekend's discussions.

Campaign for President: The Managers Look at 2000

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Today women make up 52 percent of our country but only 14 percent of our Congress. What's worse is that the number of women running for office nationally is declining. Why? With that question, a group of undergraduate students at Harvard University set out to ask women in the political world why young women should choose a career in politics.

Skirting Tradition

Concord, Massachusetts, is known throughout the country as the idyllic font for such literary heavyweights as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott. The town boasts notable landmarks recognizable to anyone familiar with United States history: Old North Bridge, Walden Pond, and Wright s Tavern, where the Concord minutemen gathered in April 1775 to oppose the approaching British troops.
But this is what you already knew about Concord.
In History's Embrace, written by Leslie Perrin Wilson, a curator with the Concord Free Public Library, refuses to simply retell the tales. Wilson concentrates her historical research and literary talents on some of the most memorable and well-worn accounts of the past, singling out the gem-like details that breathe fresh life into old stories. She then directs our gaze to the present, reminding us that Concord is a living town, facing the same challenges and dilemmas of any modern township in America.
How does a place so steeped in the past move its citizens forward and deal with the pressing modern concerns of development, education, business, and civic responsibilities? What compromises must be struck between preserving the historical fabric of Concord while making the town livable and workable for its present and future inhabitants? It is a delicate balance, to be sure, and Wilson s keen eye zeroes in on the nuances involved in blending a tourist industry, integral to Concord s economy, with the everyday demands of local residents.
Yet, Concord is special. Its history is the history of our country, and readers of In History's Embrace are treated to wonderful and rich description in the form of masterful storytelling, sprinkled with archival photographs that bring the people and places of Concord off the page and into our imaginations. A foreword by the award-winning author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin whets the reader s appetite for the stories to come.
In History's Embrace honors the past while blowing the dust off some of Concord's most well known legends. If you think you know the story of this New England town, you might be surprised, and delighted, to find you are mistaken.

In History's Embrace: Past and Present in Concord, Massachusetts

History

Leslie Perrin Wilson

Americas

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