• Books & Media
  • Author: Allen Young
  • Publisher: Haley's, 2003
  • Title: North of Quabbin Revisited
  • Price
  • $23
  • Sold At:
  • Bruce's Browser
  • Haley's Antiques and Publishing
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North of Quabbin Revisited

The essential guidebook to the North Quabbin - history, culture, nature, and more.

Description:

In effect, this is the book that started it all - the one that identified the North Quabbin as a region, a special place, deserving of respect and joy for its rich history, its friendly communities, and its glorious natural resources. Indeed, North Quabbin Revisited is one of the touchstones of the North Quabbin Woods Project and the creation of the Tully Trail.

Athol, Erving, New Salem, Orange, Petersham, Phillipston, Royalston, Warwick, Wendell - the nine-town arc rimming the north end of the Quabbin Reservoir and stretching up to the New Hampshire border - are brought to vivid life in these pages. Author Allen Young wrote the original 1983 edition as a "kind of tribute to a unique region." In the 2003 edition, he specifically celebrates a sense of place; he invites long-time residents, newcomers, and visitors to recognize, nurture, sustain, and celebrate local connections.

Antiques, apples, architecture? Cemeteries, clubs, communes? Fishing, forestry, fountains? Lakes, laurel, Lithuanians? Water, wildlife, writers? It's all here, alphabetically arranged from airport to Zita (Empress Zita, that is) - enormous fun to browse through or read from cover to cover, every entry an invitation to explore and to cherish.

North of Quabbin Revisited is available for borrowing from area libraries and for purchase at the Millers River Environmental Center and at numerous shops throughout the region, such as Bruce's Browser, Trail Head Store, New Salem General Store, and Petersham Country Store.

To see a list of other guidebooks and cultural histories of the North Quabbin region, click here.

 

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