I found an old favorite today while we were shopping at the Concord Antique Gallery. I bought this book years ago in Newport, Rhode Island, or was it Watch Hill? I've always been a fan of used bookstores, though they seem to be slowly disappearing, and had my favorites in both towns that I would visit religiously every summer when we went up to Charlestown Beach. This book was an impulse buy that turned out to be a gem. It's chock full of information, salty stories, New England lore and line drawings. It's compulsively readable and entertaining and you actually learn a thing or two hundred along the way.
I have no idea where my original copy is, somewhere buried in boxes of books. But this afternoon I'm revisiting an old favorite that reminds me why I love New England and why I am so happy to be back here again.
Years Past
July 6, 2010
