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Down on the Island, Up on the Main
A Recollected History of South Bristol, Maine
Compiled and annotated by Ellen Vincent
Paperback, $30; ISBN 0-88448-250-2
8.5 x 10, 320 pages, 300 B&W photos
Regional/History
MAINE BOOKS:
America’s Kitchens —NewA Coastal Companion: A Gulf of Maine Almanac, from Canada to Cape Cod —New
In the Shadow of the Eagle: A Tribal Representative in Maine —New
North by Northeast: Wabanaki, Akwesasne Mohawk, and Tuscarora Traditional Arts —New
Partners in Wilderness: Buzz Caverly and Baxter State Park —New
Patriarch of Maine Shipbuilding: The Life and Ships of Gardiner G. Deering—New
Remarkable Americans: The Washburn Family —New
Sharing the Ocean: Stories of Science, Politics, and Ownership from America's Oldest Industry —New
A1 Diner
Antiqueman's Diary
The Camera’s Coast: Historic Images of Ship and Shore in New England
Catboat Era, The
Changing Maine
Confluence: Merrymeeting Bay
Continental Liar from the State of Maine: James G. Blaine
Day's Work, A (Vol. I)
Day's Work, A (Vol. II)
Doryman's Day, A
Down on the Island, Up on the Main
Downeast: A Maritime History of Maine
Eminent Mainers
Fly Rod Crosby
Interrupted Forest, The
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. I
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. II
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast, Vol. IV
Journalism Matters
Just One More Thing, Doc
Letters from Sea
Life Between the Tides
Little Pine to King Spruce
Maine Hamlet, A
Maine Made Guns & Their Makers
Maine's Visible Black History
Not Your Average Bear
Old Town Canoe, The
On Wilderness
One Man's Meat
Place on Water, A
Rangeley and Its Region, The
Red right Returning
Rediscovering S. P. Rolt Triscott
Same Great Struggle, The
Sea Struck
Shipyard in Maine, A
Snow Squall
That Yankee Cat
Turnaround
Unsettled Future, Unsettled Past
Upriver Passamaquoddy, An
Voyage of Archangell, The
Voyage of Detroit, The
Voyages: A Maine Franco-American Reader
While You're Here, Doc
Wood and Canvas Canoe, The
Worthy of the Sea: K. Aage Nielsen and His Legacy of Yacht Design
- "Readers with even a casual interest in Maine history will appreciate this important compilation..." —Down East Magazine
- ...They have become a community again, all those generations of South Bristol, and it was Ellen that began it, by her curiosity and caring and love.—Gordon Bok
The oral history project that Vincent began grew as school children became involved in learning their parents’ and grandparents’ stories, a local historical society was begun, and a culminating exhibit of photos and artifacts and reminiscences drew just the response Vincent had hoped for: mixed-generation groups of people clustered around the photos and stories, putting their fingers onto them, talking and laughing and teary-eyed. Many wrote down their own memories and pinned them up on the walls. The community had come together to create a collective memory of place, spoken in the words of its people. Their strength of character and unflagging humor has carried them through many decades, and it resonates in the cadence of their tales.
Now between the covers of a book, this recollected history and its 300 vintage photographs brings you the heritage and stories of one town-but they are stories and images that will echo up and down the coast of Maine.
Ellen Vincent is an award-winning photographer and sculptor whose writing credits include photo essays and critical reviews for Country Magazine and The Washington Post. A native of Maryland, she currently lives in Wisconsin where she is Professor of Art at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She summers in South Bristol, Maine.
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