The Adirondack Guideboat

Stephen B. Sulavik

with revisions and additions by Edward Comstock, Jr. & Christopher Woodward

What started as a mid-19^th century working boat for sportsmen and their guides has turned into an icon of the Adirondacks. Now, its full story is being told in a lavishly illustrated new book.

Coming Soon! October 15, 2018. Now taking pre-orders Read More/Buy

The Light of What Comes After

Jen Town

Winner of the 2017 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize 

“‘I waited for you,’ writes Jen Town, “with a slip / of a message you’d burn after I’d gone.” And, true to its word, this is a book that lies in wait, always about to burst into flame.”

—Natalie Shapero, author of Hard Child      Read more/Buy

Circle Around Monadnock

Francelia Clark

Francelia Clark and her friends, Pam Godin and Shelley Mozier, find and follow two of the oldest trails in the Monadnock region into history—on horseback.

“To the Slow Food movement add a new one: Slow Travel. In Circle Around Monadnock, Francelia Clark and her companions, on horseback, cover eleven miles one day, six the next, following the traces of the old ways. They touch the essential mysteries of New England, the mix of past lives, the history that is known and unknowable, the fleetingness of even well-set granite foundations. These Slow Travel pioneers are time travelers, observers of the near-at-hand. They prove that what Thoreau said in 1858 still holds: Monadnock is ‘a wild place enough.’”

—Howard Mansfield            Read more/Buy

The Contrarian Voice

Ernest Hebert

The author of the critically acclaimed novel series The Darby Chronicles is back with his first poetry collection, The Contrarian Voice.

“Like his novels, Ernest Hebert’s poems are “truthful to the real world,” yet steeped in his own deep, often dark imagination. These are poems about our relationships — with loved ones, jobs, friends, enemies, and, as Hebert has said of his fiction, “that steamy, dreamy on-going nut-case story in our heads.”

–– Scott Edward Anderson, author of Fallow Field: Poems

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A Time to Dance

Richard Nevell

Long before “social capital” emerged as a world-wide term for trust and community building, country dancing had been meeting this need of urban and rural Americans alike for more than three centuries. A Time to Dance explores the evolution of American country dance from Colonial time to the present, taking the reader across the USA in search of the reasons why so many millions of Americans love to share the country dance floor with friends, neighbors, even total strangers, in a celebration of community.

—Lewis M. Feldstein, co-author with Robert D. Putnam of Better Together: Restoring the American Community

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Summer Over Autumn

Howard Mansfield

Howard Mansfield’s essays will delight readers from all walks of life: whether small town or big city, and encourage them to further explore their own homes. Mansfield has an uncanny ability to entice hidden stories from everything around him and it shines through in these essays about neighbors, animals, tractors, trees, yard sales, funerals, money, and fidelity to time itself. Read more/Buy

Albert Duvall Quigley

Artist, Musician, Framemaker 1891, 1961

Albert D. Quigley Exhibit Committee

Albert Duvall Quigley spent most of his life painting the people and landscapes of the Monadnock region.  A self-taught musician, he built and repaired fiddles, wrote dance tunes, and played at local dances. He also made frames known for their beautiful workmanship and originality, and prized by many Monadnock artists. This catalog has been compiled for an exhibition celebrating Quigley’s life and work that will open at  the Historical Society of Cheshire County (NH) in May 2017, and for the 250th anniversary celebration of the town of Nelson, NH, where Quigley lived for many years. Read more/Buy

Louder than Hearts

Poems

Zeina Hashem Beck

2016 May Sarton NH Poetry Prize winner

“I don’t know how Zeina Hashem Beck is able to do this. Her poems feel like whole worlds—potent conversations with the self, the soul, the many landscapes of being, and the news that confounds us all. They weave two languages into a perfect fabric of presence, with an almost mystical sense of pacing and power…”

– Naomi Shihab Nye

A Doubtful House

Poems

Alice B. Fogel

“Challenging, wildly inventive, philosophical, as intense as it is intimate, A Doubtful House reveals and deepens our understanding of the strangeness within the ordinary.”

—John Sibley Williams, author of Disinheritance

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Volcano

an A to Z and Other Essays about Geology,

Geography, and Geo-Travel in the American West

Neil Mathison

Neil Mathison’s writing explores the many ways in which the physical world influences our lives. He muses on heritage, boats, and the sea; ponders how living in the shadow of a volcano shapes a person; and ties the physical world to deeper themes of human life, such as relationships and personal tragedies. Read More/Buy