Eastern Point

by Garland, Joseph E.

• ISBN13: 9781889833071
• ISBN10: 188983307X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: Memoirs Unlimited

Summary

A social history of Eastern Point, written by Gloucester native Joe Garland.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition	xi
Preface to the Second Edition	xiii
Discovered	3	(6)
Granted	9	(6)
Settled	15	(6)
A Very Rough Farm	21	(8)
Shipwreck Shore	29	(10)
Lighthouse	39	(12)
Ku-Shing	51	(10)
The Coming of Thomas Niles	61	(10)
An Open and Shut Case	71	(8)
The Four-Cent Ferry	79	(6)
I Did not Like His Conduc	85	(10)
Farmer Niles Beleaguered	95	(8)
Fort No-Name	103	(12)
The Battle of Eastern Point Heights	115	(8)
Breakwater Talk	123	(10)
Mother Ann's Cow	133	(12)
Oceana	145	(8)
Eastern Point Associates	153	(16)
Sea Voices	169	(12)
Knights of the Brush	181	(22)
The Reef of Gloucester's Woe	203	(18)
Camp Wolcott: Bastion Against the Spaniard	221	(8)
The Ramparts	229	(14)
Mrs. Raymond's Regime	243	(12)
The Colonial Arms	255	(8)
Some Men of the Old School	263	(12)
A Dab of Dabsville	275	(18)
More Dabs of Dabsville	293	(12)
Dramatis Personae Dabsvillea	305	(20)
Of Politics and Pratfalls	325	(14)
The American Field Services	339	(10)
Masonry Temples	349	(10)
More Pratfalls and Politics	359	(14)
The Teetering Twenties	373	(18)
Comings and Goings	391	(16)
Old Regatta Days and the Cape Ann Yacht Club	407	(8)
The Belle Epoque of Yachting	415	(12)
The Eastern Point Yacht Club	427	(18)
These Parlous Times	445	(56)
FORTY YEARS ON, 1950--1990
Nautical	463	(20)
Rustical, and More or Less Sociable	483	(18)
Acknowledgments	501	(2)
Bibliography	503	(4)
Chapter Notes	507	(12)
Index	519	(17)
Index of Vessels	536