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Dogtown : death and enchantment in a New England ghost town
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Title
Dogtown : death and enchantment in a New England ghost town / Elyssa East.
ISBN
9781416587040
1416587047
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Published
New York : Free Press, 2009.
Physical Description
vii, 291 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Summary
An exploration of the strange, dark history of a wilderness ghost town and a brutal 25-year-old murder.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 03, 2010
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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".
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