| Marshfield Contributor(s): Hagar Krusell, Cynthia (Author), Galluzzo, John J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738545724 ISBN-13: 9780738545721 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) OUR PRICE: $22.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2007 Annotation: 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 countrys 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 towns 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - New England (ct, Ma, Me, Nh, Ri, Vt) - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Travel | Pictorials (see Also Photography - Subjects & Themes - Regional) |
| LCCN: 2006926051 |
| Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing) |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6.54" W x 9.26" (0.71 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - New England - Geographic Orientation - Massachusetts |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Hagar Krusell, Cynthia: - Marshfield historian Cynthia Hagar Krusell is the author of Of Tea and Tories, The Winslows of Careswell in Marshfield, and Plymouth County 1685 and the coauthor of Marshfield: A Town of Villages. John J. Galluzzo is the author of 11 Arcadia Publishing titles, including Scituate, Rockland, Hull and Nantasket Beach, Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations, and Mass Audubon. |