Bøger af Jim Marquardt

Though a relatively small town, Sag Harbor on the East End ofLong Island, New York, has a fascinating history. Members ofthe Algonquin Indian tribe lived and summered here thousandsof years ago. English colonists arrived nearby in 1645, found thesoil ideal for farming and established some of the earliest settlementsin the New World.At one time, Sag Harbor commerce was busier than New YorkCity's and led to establishment of the first Custom House on LongIsland. Sag Harbor may be best known as one of the leading whalingharbors on the East Coast. At the industry's height in the 1840s, it washome port for some 60 whaling ships that roamed the world's oceans, supported by the village's rope works, coopers, blacksmiths, sailmakers, and shipbuilders. Revenue from the industry built distinctivehomes that still line Main Street. The first Long Island newspaper was published here in 1791. The Revolutionary War and Civil War affected Sag Harbor and its people like hundreds of other small towns in young America. The endof whaling in the latter half of the 1800s brought a period of decline, other businesses unable to keep up with modern advancements. In later years, writers and artists began coming here for respite from the City, and a freer, less expensive lifestyle. Now, close to, but still separate in spirit from the fabled Hamptons, Sag Harbor attracts visitors from all over the world.These stories which originally appeared in the Sag Harbor Express over the last ten years create an intimate picture of some of the events and people that created the unique personality of an "American Beauty

Whaling Adventures, Indians and Colonists, Wars, Shipwrecks, Writer and ArtistsJim Marquardt explores the fascinating history of the Village in a series of colorful stories, from the Indians and colonists to whaling, wars, shipwrecks, writers and artists. Did you know that at one time whaling was the third largest industry in the United States? Or that Sag Harbor sailors jumped ship and became kings of South Seas islands? Or that wives sometimes sailed with their captain husbands on three-year voyages? Rather than a broad-stroke history, the entertaining stories cover a variety of personal accounts and incidences that vividly illustrate the lives of earlier Harborites, like the indefatigable Captain Thomas Royce who was first to hunt whales in the Bering Sea, or the friendship between Chief Wyandanch and Lion Gardiner, or the Harbor journalist sued by Alexander Hamilton, or the lighthouse that may have caused a shipwreck. Copies of True Stories of Old Sag Harbor are available on line and at local bookstores and at the Historical Society. Jack Youngs, president of the Historical Society says that "It doesn't matter how many generations you've been here, it's always good reading when Jim dips his pen in the ink." The more than 70 essays in the book are organized into six sections: Sag Whalers Sailed the World, Native Americans and Colonial Life, Sag Harbor in War, Living With the Sea, Business Enterprises, Writers Artists and Personalities, and Homes and Places.