Marshfield, a seaside retreat famous for its beaches, hotels, and ocean views, has always shone in summer. It was the home of some of the country's leading families, specifically the Winslows and the Websters, and worldrenowned concert singer Adelaide Phillips, as well as the site of the first radio broadcast in America, engineered by Reginald Fessenden at Brant Rock on Christmas Eve 1906. Today the town's various villages retain the identities that defined them in the early 1900s, from hardworking Green Harbor to beachy Brant Rock to serene Sea View to the rolling Marshfield Hills. Marshfield... Read More
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Marshfield, a seaside retreat famous for its beaches, hotels, and ocean views, has always shone in summer. It was the home of some of the country's leading families, specifically the Winslows and the Websters, and worldrenowned concert singer Adelaide Phillips, as well as the site of the first radio broadcast in America, engineered by Reginald Fessenden at Brant Rock on Christmas Eve 1906. Today the town's various villages retain the identities that defined them in the early 1900s, from hardworking Green Harbor to beachy Brant Rock to serene Sea View to the rolling Marshfield Hills. Marshfield... Read More
Marshfield, a seaside retreat famous for its beaches, hotels, and ocean views, has always shone in summer. It was the home of some of the country's leading families, specifically the Winslows and the Websters, and worldrenowned concert singer Adelaide Phillips, as well as the site of the first radio broadcast in America, engineered by Reginald Fessenden at Brant Rock on Christmas Eve 1906. Today the town's various villages retain the identities that defined them in the early 1900s, from hardworking Green Harbor to beachy Brant Rock to serene Sea View to the rolling Marshfield Hills. Marshfield has celebrated its heroes, survived the great Ocean Bluff fire of 1941, and, most importantly, preserved its history through several historic preservation projects around town.
Details
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 6th June 2007
State: Massachusetts
Illustration Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738545721
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional) PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
Author Bio
DONALD CANN has been member of the Star Island Corporation since 1979 and has served on corporation committees, including many years on the Star Island Historical and Artifacts Committee as a member, chair, and advisor.
GAYLE KADLIK is the former curator of the Vaughn Cottage Museum on Star Island and a descendant of John Downs, author of Sprays of Salt: Reminiscences of a Native Shoaler.
JOHN GALLUZZO is a historian and author specializing in the history and nature of the Northeast. Together, Donald, Gayle, and John coauthored Images of America: Isles of Shoals. Among them they have published more than fifty history titles.
Margot Sullivan, local author and Monhegan resident, has written several articles on the history of Monhegan Island. Marshfield, Massachusetts, town historian Cynthia Hagar Krusell was the curator of the Monhegan Museum from 1979 to 1990 and is the author of several local history titles, including Marshfield. John J. Galluzzo is the author of 12 Arcadia Publishing titles, including Isles of Shoals, and is a nationally known authority on the history of the United States Coast Guard.
Marshfield, a seaside retreat famous for its beaches, hotels, and ocean views, has always shone in summer. It was the home of some of the country's leading families, specifically the Winslows and the Websters, and worldrenowned concert singer Adelaide Phillips, as well as the site of the first radio broadcast in America, engineered by Reginald Fessenden at Brant Rock on Christmas Eve 1906. Today the town's various villages retain the identities that defined them in the early 1900s, from hardworking Green Harbor to beachy Brant Rock to serene Sea View to the rolling Marshfield Hills. Marshfield has celebrated its heroes, survived the great Ocean Bluff fire of 1941, and, most importantly, preserved its history through several historic preservation projects around town.
Pages: 128
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
Series: Images of America
Publication Date: 6th June 2007
State: Massachusetts
Illustrations Note: Black and White
ISBN: 9780738545721
Format: Paperback
BISACs: PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional) PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials) HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
DONALD CANN has been member of the Star Island Corporation since 1979 and has served on corporation committees, including many years on the Star Island Historical and Artifacts Committee as a member, chair, and advisor.
GAYLE KADLIK is the former curator of the Vaughn Cottage Museum on Star Island and a descendant of John Downs, author of Sprays of Salt: Reminiscences of a Native Shoaler.
JOHN GALLUZZO is a historian and author specializing in the history and nature of the Northeast. Together, Donald, Gayle, and John coauthored Images of America: Isles of Shoals. Among them they have published more than fifty history titles.
Margot Sullivan, local author and Monhegan resident, has written several articles on the history of Monhegan Island. Marshfield, Massachusetts, town historian Cynthia Hagar Krusell was the curator of the Monhegan Museum from 1979 to 1990 and is the author of several local history titles, including Marshfield. John J. Galluzzo is the author of 12 Arcadia Publishing titles, including Isles of Shoals, and is a nationally known authority on the history of the United States Coast Guard.
