Publisher Comments

Faced with the sale of the century-old family summer house on Cape Cod where he had spent forty-two summers, George Howe Colt returned for one last stay with his wife and children. This poignant tribute to the eleven-bedroom jumble of gables, bays, and dormers that watched over weddings, divorces, deaths, anniversaries, birthdays, breakdowns, and love affairs for five generations interweaves Colt's final visit with memories of a lifetime of summers. ... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Sarah Costin

If you delight in the "bizarre, the grotesque and the mysterious", this is the book for you. Joe Citro has collected many of Vermont's unique tales of ghosts, vampires, monsters (including Champ) and more. He combines them with eerie woodcuts and location maps to create a weird little gem of Vermont folklore and history.

Publisher Comments

A beautifully written memoir of nature, community, and poetry.

For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the light of kerosene lamps. They considered themselves part of the “back to the land” movement, but their choice to live off the grid was neither statement nor protest: they simply had built ... read more>>>