This is the fishing book every game fisher should have! ISLAND STRIPERS is a result of the author's 45 years of fishing Block Island's waters and his offered contentions supported by science. This effort is filled with insights into its history and unique geology, its tides and currents, early native fishing, updates in striper biology and evolution, detailed day and night, surf and boat angling, striper diseases, major action spots and techniques, popular baits, recent record-breaking fish, fly and surf fishing interviews, forage species, various tagging agencies, results of his striper tagging, vessels used, and much, much more.... Early in 2012 he was selected for induction into the IGFA's World Fishing Hall of Fame, a result of his career tagging nearly 60,000 documented game fish for science, thanks to help from clients and friends. Of these 43,000 were striped bass for the American Littoral Society (ALS), the remainder for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), which included bluefin tuna, various billfish and shark species. Back in 2011 SPORTFISHING magazine commenced their annual Making A Difference (MAD) Campaign, to identify fifty individuals nationwide who made significant contributions to sport fishing. Capt. Al Anderson was announced as one of their five winners. He is a well-known New England charter skipper, author, lecturer and conservationist, long recognized for his ethic of marking game fish for science.

Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns—we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide, this pattern is leading to the rapid destruction of our coast. But her eloquent account also offers sound advice for salvaging the stretches of pristine American shore that remain. The story begins with the tale of the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900—the deadliest natural disaster in American history, which killed some six thousand people. Misguided residents constructed a wall to prevent another tragedy, but the barrier ruined the beach and ultimately destroyed the town's booming resort business. From harrowing accounts of natural disasters to lucid ecological explanations of natural coastal processes, from reports of human interference and construction on the shore to clear-eyed elucidation of public policy and conservation interests, this book illustrates in rich detail the conflicting interests, short-term responses, and long-range imperatives that have been the hallmarks of America's love affair with her coast. Intriguing observations about America's beaches, past and present, include discussions of Hurricane Andrew's assault on the Gulf Coast, the 1962 northeaster that ravaged one thousand miles of the Atlantic shore, the beleaguered beaches of New Jersey and North Carolina's rapidly vanishing Outer Banks, and the sand-starved coast of southern California. Dean provides dozens of examples of human attempts to tame the ocean—as well as a wealth of lucid descriptions of the ocean's counterattack. Readers will appreciate Against the Tide's painless course in coastal processes and new perspective on the beach.

The Mohegan Bluffs of Block Island were named after a band of Mohegan Indians who came to pillage Manisses Island (Block Island). However, they were destroyed by the local Manissean Indians at the Island's tallest bluffs, located on the Southeast corner of the Island. I have heard many versions of this story over the years. But, even after hearing it for the first time when I was eleven years old, I wondered about how it all happened. Why did the two tribes fight in the first place? What did it look like? Why did they come to fight at that location? Did the Manisseans literally push or throw the Mohegans off the bluffs?This book takes what little documented information is available and pieces together a fictional account of how this action might have taken place.

The new full colour Rough Guide to New England is the ultimate travel guide to this compelling historic region, packed with comprehensive coverage of every attraction. Honest, accurate reviews with first-hand opinions, clear maps, detailed practical information, insider tips and illuminating photographs throughout will ensure that your visit is a truly memorable one. Discover New England's highlights with in-depth accounts on everything from apple picking and beachcombing to Yankee cooking and zip lines. Hike the Appalachian Trail, or meander down country roads amid autumn foliage; savour New England's best clam chowder, regional beer and blueberry pie; spot a lighthouse, or even a whale; and walk in the footsteps of revolutionaries. Explore it all with our inspiring new itineraries, up-to-date descriptions and stylish colour maps pinpointing New England's best hotels, shops, restaurants and drinking taverns, for all budgets, so that you don't miss a thing. Now available in ePub format.

Explore the Ocean State's out-of-the-way attractions, including the annual Ancients and Horribles Parade in Chepachet, cabaret performances at the Sea Horse Grill in South Kingston, and New England's oldest Masonic Temple in Warren.

Through the story of a portrait of a woman in a silk dress, historian Zara Anishanslin embarks on a fascinating journey, exploring and refining debates about the cultural history of the eighteenth-century British Atlantic world. While most scholarship on commodities focuses either on labor and production or on consumption and use, Anishanslin unifies both, examining the worlds of four identifiable people who produced, wore, and represented this object: a London weaver, one of early modern Britain’s few women silk designers, a Philadelphia merchant’s wife, and a New England painter. Blending macro and micro history with nuanced gender analysis, Anishanslin shows how making, buying, and using goods in the British Atlantic created an object-based community that tied its inhabitants together, while also allowing for different views of the Empire. Investigating a range of subjects including self-fashioning, identity, natural history, politics, and trade, Anishanslin makes major contributions both to the study of material culture and to our ongoing conversation about how to write history.

In 1760, the merchants of New London, Connecticut conducted a lottery to raise money to build a lighthouse to guide ships into their harbor. Ever since, numerous lights have guided sailors past Block Island to the busy ports of Long Island Sound. Join author and photographer Kevin Woyce for an illustrated tour of eleven historic lighthouses—two on Block Island, the rest along the Connecticut Coast, including those at New Haven, New London, Stonington, and Stratford. Discover how and why these lights were built, and meet the brave men and women who tended them, under trying and often dangerous conditions. You’ll also find information about visiting lighthouses that are open to the public, and the best places to see offshore or privately owned lights. Illustrated throughout with original black & white photographs. Table of Contents: Introduction Chapter One – Block Island Chapter Two – New London Chapter Three – Bridgeport Chapter Four – Stratford Chapter Five – Stonington Chapter Six – New Haven Chapter Seven – Norwalk

Sea captain Alexander Hawkins has returned to his Block Island (RI) home after an extended voyage, and little has gone well in his absence. The family farm is struggling and his sweetheart greets him with cool contempt. In addition, the political atmosphere in the spring of 1776 is charged, as the American colonies scramble against the British. Many Sons of Liberty insist that freedom from British rule means freedom for all men, black and white. Yet many patriots wonder about losing their profits without slaves. Who will survive and what will it take to rekindle Alexander's passion to continue the fight for slave freedom? "Stone Wall Freedom--The Islander," the second book in Tucker's trilogy, picks up the threads of the original story and weaves a new one all its own. Drawn from the Block Island landscape, this historical fiction was written "as a tribute to the microcosm of the struggle for freedom that the men and women, both free and slave, faced on this blessed little land."

From Buenos Aires to Paris to New Orleans, Mike and Barbara Bivona have traveled and danced throughout the world. And in this memoir and travelogue, these two dance aficionados share their adventures and experiences. Ballroom dancers for more than twenty years, the Bivonas have traveled extensively while honing their dancing skills and meeting fellow dancers. Dancing Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona provides detailed accounts of their experiences in Argentina, Paris, Hawaii, Italy, the Catskill Mountains of New York, the Caribbean, and South Florida, as well as other destinations. This account not only includes dancing details, but also shares the history and flavor of the exciting locales they have visited. Augmented with photographs, Dancing Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona also includes background information on the art of ballroom dancing, a few dance lessons, biographies of select dancers who have performed on the television show Dancing with the Stars, current ballroom dancing philosophy, and information about the intellectual benefits gained from dancing.