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

On the Edge of No Answer

Prose Poems

Joal Hetherington

Reading a Hetherington poem is like examining a fine diamond—each word, each facet, a tiny, shimmering surprise.

—Andy Merton, author of Lost and Found

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Justice Approximated

Dispatches from the Bottom Rung of the Judicial Ladder

L. Phillips Runyon, III

“A young guy came in trying to evict an older woman from an apartment in his house,” Runyon recalls. “While it seemed a little harsh to be pushing for this with two weeks left before Christmas, it turned into Greek tragedy when I realized about 10 minutes into the testimony that the tenant was the landlord’s own mother.”   Read More/Buy

Sheds

Howard Mansfield

Photographs by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey

“Sheds are buildings where utility and beauty are one: woodsheds and barns, boathouses and bob houses, covered bridges and summer cabins. Sheds, in addition to holding old tools and broken chairs, hold a few hints about living well.” 

Howard Mansfield draws on material from his recent book Dwelling in Possibility while exploring different types of sheds found around New England and beyond. Sheds shows the connection between the design of these structures and their roles in our lives. Read more/Buy

Rust Belt Boy

Stories of an American Childhood

Paul Hertneky

“The inside truth of a life, or a culture–of anything–cannot be tricked together. It has to grow from what’s been bred in the bone and tested in the day’s real living. Paul Hertneky’s RUST BELT BOY has the savor of that living. It is a rueful, bittersweet expression of loss and a brave reenactment of memory.”
— Sven Birkerts, author of THE GUTENBERG ELEGIES and THE OTHER WALK.

In Paul Hertneky’s RUST BELT BOY: Stories of an American Childhood  the author counts himself among the millions of Baby Boomers who fled the industrial north upon fulfilling their parents’ dreams of a college education, leaving behind a rich cultural legacy that has all but disappeared. Read more/Buy

Watching Great Meadow

Gordon Russell

“Gordon Russell’s Watching Great Meadow is an eloquent, moving account of the astounding integrity and beauty of an ecological community’s adaptation in the wake of unprecedented transformation. This journal is a gift.”    – Lisa Brooks, author of The Common Pot: The Recovery of Native Space in the Northeast

Conservationist Gordon Russell shares his observations and insights surrounding the 100-acre wetlands that are his backyard. Watching Great Meadow (April 2016, $24.95, Paperback/Gatefold) is a delightful celebration of nature as well as a cautionary tale. Read more/Buy

Notes from Old Lyme

Life on the Marsh and other Essays 

Sydney Williams

“Step into the calm water of common sense. The essays of Sydney Williams are deep and clear—cool enough to refresh and warm enough for comfort. One essay is about frogs who turn up in Sydney’s swimming pool. Read Notes from Old Lyme and you’ll see why even the frogs are attracted.” —P. J. O’Rourke

After forty-seven years on Wall Street, Williams writes from home about what truly matters. Notes from Old Lyme (May 2016, $22.50, Paperback/Gatefold) reflects on the precious moments of life spent in contemplation, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday grind. Read more/Buy