Here’s a lovely thing that just came in. YACHTING JOURNALS OF THE WILLIAM CARTER FAMILY, ALLSTON, MASS – MONHEGAN ISLAND AND MAINE COAST, 1914 – 1915. William and Isabelle Carter and their daughter Jamie lived in a comfortable but not over-the-top Victorian house in Allston, Mass. They owned a comfortable but not over-the-top yacht (it […] More >>
Archives for May 2011
The Rapture
J.P. Jones Plugs Lt. Grubb. (Details below.) What a difference a year makes! This Saturday morning, as I pulled up at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center to shop the second annual Philadelphia Book and Paper Expo,the parking lot was full. And so was the hall.Oh, wait a minute. That was the Eastern Pennsylvania Conference of […] More >>
Ferdinandea
Along with pirate treasure, white whales, female marines and flying Dutchmen, one of the most interesting byways of maritime lore has to do with disappearing islands. Atlantis comes first to mind – home of our greatest lost civilization and enough crackpot theories to populate several islands. Then probably Avalon, where King Arthur went for R&R […] More >>
Hold the Onions
One day in the late 1970s I was in Ernie Starr’s shop in Boston talking books with Ernie’s son Norm when a squatty little wise guy broke into our conversation and told me I should think about joining a new association of booksellers called MARIAB – Massachusetts and Rhode Island Antiquarian Booksellers. I made some […] More >>