Jonesport Raffle
Published on 1. September 2017
244 pages
978-1-60893-555-0 (ISBN)
Description
Beginning with the legendary story of a man in Jonesport (or was it Dexter or Waterford or Litchfield?) who raffled off his horse, which incidentally had been dead for some time, these twenty-nine tales cover the length and breadth of Maine and extend back to the sixteenth-century fishing camps that were set up a hundred years before Jamestown and Plymouth.
Learn about the origin and history of "schoolmarms," along with other classic tales on Down East thrift, the evils of drink, Maine weather, lumbering folklore, and Paul Bunyan. These yarns often pull your leg, so keep a sharp eye!
Such a collection makes for an encyclopedia of the great cultural achievement of Mainers, which has been compared to the Rosetta Stone and the birth of Chaucer. But essentially The Jonesport Raffle is a book of the highest humor that will be a source of infinite enjoyment.
Learn about the origin and history of "schoolmarms," along with other classic tales on Down East thrift, the evils of drink, Maine weather, lumbering folklore, and Paul Bunyan. These yarns often pull your leg, so keep a sharp eye!
Such a collection makes for an encyclopedia of the great cultural achievement of Mainers, which has been compared to the Rosetta Stone and the birth of Chaucer. But essentially The Jonesport Raffle is a book of the highest humor that will be a source of infinite enjoyment.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
4,50 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-60893-555-0 (9781608935550)
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Person
By John Gould
Content
- The Jonesport Raffle
- The Jonesport Raffle
- The Maine Schoolmarm
- Prairie Post Holes
- How Peabody Perished
- ? Few Appropriate Words
- Perley the Poacher
- Dr. Willoughby's Daughter
- The Bucksaw Ghost
- Some Foolish Fellows
- The Muscular Mother
- Why Frankie Was Late
- Down-East Thrift
- The Phantom Ship
- The Last Car?bou
- Horse in a Well
- The Poor Pooch
- About Another Grant
- The Evils of Drink
- Classical Unity
- History and Folklore
- A Short Discussion
- Home fr?m Sea
- The Ring of the ?x
- The One-Man Army
- New Boots on the Long Trail
- Short-Handled Whip
- Maine Weather
- Some Odds and Ends
- A Few lnventions
- Some Hors d'Oeuvres
- And Caveat Emptor
- Rolling off a Log
- The ?ale of the First Cat
- Acknowledgments
