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Author East, Elyssa.

Title Dogtown : death and enchantment in a New England ghost town / Elyssa East.

Imprint New York : Free Press, ©2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  917.445 Ea77d 2009    ---  Lib Use Only
Description vii, 291 pages : maps ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-279) and index.
Contents The prophetic pictures -- The birth of tragedy -- Cynomancy -- The painter of Dogtown -- Le Beauport -- The baron in the trees -- Ghost dog -- Rollicking apparitions -- Taking care of its own --- In the time of pirates -- The green man -- Dooming the seats -- Shadow hunting -- God's burning finger -- Confession -- In gypsy ways -- "Viva San Pietro" -- Life's book -- Island heart of darkness -- Maximus, to Dogtown -- The masked man in yellow -- The geography of being -- Into the deep woods -- City bred tenderfoots -- "No intention of leaving this courtroom alive" -- Nature working her magic unmolested -- Confabulation -- Mountains in stone -- Notes on the term "Dogtown."
Summary An exploration of the strange, dark history of a wilderness ghost town and a brutal 25-year-old murder.
Subject East, Elyssa -- Homes and haunts.
Dogtown Commons (Gloucester, Mass.) -- Description and travel.
Gloucester (Mass.) -- History.
Ann, Cape, Region (Mass.) -- History.
Homes. (OCoLC)fst01353235
Travel. (OCoLC)fst01155558
Massachusetts -- Cape Ann Region. (OCoLC)fst01347182
Massachusetts -- Gloucester. (OCoLC)fst01208694
Massachusetts -- Gloucester -- Dogtown Commons. (OCoLC)fst01328130
Dogtown Commons (Gloucester, Mass.) -- Description and travel.
Gloucester (Mass.) -- History.
Ann, Cape, Region (Mass.) -- History.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781416587040
1416587047
9781416587057
1416587055

 
    
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