Between 1776 and 1850, the people, politicians, and clergy of New England transformed the relationship between church and state. This book examines how church and state collided over disestablishment, Sunday laws, and antislavery and built the foundation of what the author describes as a religion-supported state.
Eat’n Park Hospitality Group team members share their experiences to paint a vivid picture of the evolution of a 75-year-old family-oriented, community-minded company. They trace its transformation from a single carhop restaurant into a multi-dimensional hospitality group with concepts throughout the eastern half of the United States.
At the age of nineteen, Robert F. Weir of West Point, New York, ran away to sea, where he spent the next ten years. Assuming the pseudonym Robert Wallace, Weir sailed aboard the bark Clara Bell out of Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, in 1855 for a voyage to the whaling grounds of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Upon the death of the boatsteerer, Weir ......
Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of ......
A captivating story of environmental crisis and community on Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Island environments are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of rapidly rising waters, accelerating ecological crisis. While we often think of this environmental reality in terms of the Global North and South, Alaska, or Micronesian or Indian ......
Little does he know, but a Harvard PhD's discovery of Pertica quadrifaria in the northern Maine wilderness in the mid-1950s will help scientists unlock the details of a major event in the history of our planet--the transition of plants to land, an occurrence that continues to have a critical influence on the Earth's life-supporting processes, ......
Wilderness Camping in the Adirondacks is a handy and helpful guide for adventure seekers planning weekend or two-day camping trips in the Adirondack Park. Bill Ingersoll, guidebook author and chairman of Adirondack Wilderness Advocates, features 25 relatively easy outings scattered throughout the 6-million-acre park for campers to hike trails or ......
Witches and Warlocks of New York is a collection of legends and historical accounts about witches and warlocks from the Empire State. This will be the second in a series (the first being Massachusetts publishing September 1, 2021). New York has a surprisingly rich history of witches and witchcraft. These stories are known locally in the towns ......