Book Reviews

Reviews of the following books: The Boothbay Region, 1906-1960 by Harold B. Clifford; Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England,1500-1643 by Neal Salisbury; The Practice of Piety: Puritan Devotional Disciplines in Seventeenth-Century New England by Charles E. Hambrick-Stowe

How Augusta Became and Stayed the State Capital 1982

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How Augusta Became and Stayed the State Capital 1982

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Down East Bookshelf piece on Revolution Downeast: The War for American Indepe

Down East Bookshelf piece on Revolution Downeast: The War for American Independence in Maine, by James S. Leamon

Perspectives piece by Neil Rolde, president of the Seacoast Shipyard Associati

Perspectives piece by Neil Rolde, president of the Seacoast Shipyard Association, on the threat of closure that faces the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, noting that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld shows a preference to private shipyards over public shipyards when awarding contracts. The Seacoast Shipyard Association has for the first time hired a Washington, D.C. lobbyist, Dale Gerry, to fight for the shipyard

In the Public Arena piece by Maine historian and former legislator, Neil Rolde

In the Public Arena piece by Maine historian and former legislator, Neil Rolde, discussing the book, On Killing, by Lt. Col. Dave Grossman. Grossman presents a theory of how a nation of killers is being created by overcoming the innate human resistance to killing one\u27s own species

Books & the Arts piece on Woven Together in York County, Maine: A History 18

Books & the Arts piece on Woven Together in York County, Maine: A History 1865 - 1990, written by Madge Baker and published by Wilson\u27s Printers, Shapleigh, Maine