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Mass Audubon (MA) (Images of America)
John J. Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2005

Harriet Hemenway and Minna Hall might be surprised to see what their simple discussion over tea in Boston?s Back Bay in 1896 has led to more than one hundred years later. Concerned about the widespread killing of birds for use in the millinery trade, the ladies asked other society women not to wear dead birds on their hats and to join the Massachusetts Audubon Society for the Protection of Birds. Today, sixty-eight thousand households across the ...

Marshfield (MA) (Images of America)
Cynthia Hagar Krusell & John J. Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2007

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 ...

New Jersey Coast Guard Stations and Rumrunners (NJ) (Images of America)

1 review
Van R. Field and, John J. Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2004

The face of rum-smuggling
The New Jersey shore swarmed with rum smugglers during the 1920's. This book is a priceless collection of hard-to-find photos of this era. It is an excellent light-read. For those who are looking for a more in-depth account, look at this book: Alcohol, Boat Chases, and Shootouts! How the U.S. Coast Guard and Customs Fought Rum Smugglers and Pirates (Part I: 1919-1924)

Remembering Old Abington: The Collected Writings of Martha Campbell
Martha Campbell

The History Press, 2008

During the early 1800s, Abington's Smith and Shaw boys brawled their way to area fame. Legendary bare-knuckle boxer John L. Sullivan settled in Abington in the early 1900s. And on August 16, 1893, the community's combative reputation was permanently cemented when over two thousand men fought in a pitched battle, the infamous Railroad Riot , over a railroad's disputed right of way through downtown. In Remembering Old Abington , editors Donald ...

Rockland (MA) (Postcard History Series)
Donald Cann, John Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2005

A century ago, the words ?Rockland? and ?shoes? were synonymous. On any side road off Union Street, the town?s main thoroughfare, were some of the most important shoe-manufacturing facilities in America, among them Emerson Shoe, Wright Shoe, and the Hurley Brothers Shoe Company. As the industrial revolution reigned, Rockland peaked, but Rockland had another side to it. Postals sent from Rockland exported the innate beauty of Reed?s Pond, ...

When Hull Freezes Over
John Galluzzo

The History Press, 2005

The peninsular community of Hull, Massachusetts, reaches a total of seven thin, sandy miles into Boston Harbor, forming a protective barrier against intruding navies and pounding waves. Unfortunately for those residents who choose to live here for the three miles of crescent-shaped beach and its attendant summer advantages, exposure to the sea during the winter months can be, at times, trying, to say the least. When Hull Freezes Over , ...

The North River: Scenic Waterway of the South Shore
John Galluzzo

The History Press, 2008

There is no one way to see the North River. Its characteristic meandering cuts a twenty-three-mile path through the South Shore to Massachusetts Bay. Flowing through six towns Pembroke, Hanover, Norwell, Scituate, Marshfield and Hanson the river has played a prominent, if not definitive, role in shaping the identity of the region. John Galluzzo, who leads cultural and natural history tours of the river for Mass Audubon's South Shore ...

Lifesavers of the South Shore: A History of Rescue and Loss
John Galluzzo

The History Press, 2008

However cruelly the rocks of Massachusetts's South Shore have treated storm-driven sailors, there can be no questioning the selflessness and courage of the keepers and surfmen who played host to the no man's land between frozen beach and gale-tossed sea. Read John Galluzzo's enthralling account of the Life-Saving Service and meet legends like Joshua James, whose surfboat, Nantasket, once saved twenty-nine men from six boats in a ...

Hull and Nantasket Beach (MA) (Then & Now)
John Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2001

Since Myles Standish and the Plymouth Colony pilgrims first set foot on the Hull peninsula in 1621, the town has undergone several significant identity changes. At first a remote fishing village, Hull later became a military outpost, the first line of defense for the city of Boston during the American Revolution. After the Civil War, the residents of that city flocked to Nantasket Beach by the thousands each summer to partake of its ...

The Pendleton Disaster off Cape Cod: The Greatest Small Boat Rescue in Coast Guard History

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Theresa Mitchell Barbo; John Galluzzo and Captain W. Russell Webster; USCG (RET)

The History Press, 2007

Excellent insights into an historic rescue
The Pendleton Disaster gives new and important insights into Bernard C. Webber's impossible rescue of the crew of the SS Pendleton stern in 1952. The authors have done in-depth interview with the rescue crew and what emerges is heart-touching as well as insightful. The organization of the book is a bit choppy here and there with free-standing chapters on various aspects of the wreck. But the ...

Abington (MA) (Postcard History Series)
Donald Cann, John Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2004

Once known to native inhabitants as Manamooskeagin, or ?the land of many beavers,? Abington became an important manufacturing and financial center in Plymouth County by the early twentieth century. Postcard photographers and publishers caught every stage of the community?s growth and broadcast it to the world through images of workmen at shoe factories, parades celebrating the town?s 1912 bicentennial, and the dedication of the Island Grove ...

Squantum and South Weymouth Naval Air Stations (MA) (Images of America)

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Donald Cann, John J. Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2004

Amazing insight to a long gone piece of Boston-area history
I grew up just 5 miles from the former location of NAS Squantum and rode my bike on the old runway as a kid. But I never knew this base had a history that went back to very earliest days of aviation. I also had no idea that the base was the location of a ship yard that built US Navy destoyers. Those are a few of the gems that can be found in this easily read picture book. Images from NAS ...

A Day in the Life of Hull: You Don't Have to Catch Fish to Go Fishin'
John Galluzzo

The History Press, 2006

When the summer sun rises over the Atlantic Ocean and warms the sands of Nantasket Beach, fun-seekers from all over eastern Massachusetts begin their trek to the town of Hull to claim a spot on the scenic shore for a day. For many Hull residents, though, the summer sunrise is the start of the workday, and a hard day's work in Hull can be a unique endeavor indeed. Hull's geography and powerful ties to the sea create the need for ...

Boston Harbor (MA) (Postcard History Series)
Donald Cann, John Galluzzo

Arcadia Publishing, 2006

Postcard publishers had plenty to work with in the Boston area at the beginning of the 20th century, the heyday of the American postcard. The Boston Harbor Islands offered romantic scenery with their stunning natural features, historic lighthouses, and majestic coastal artillery forts. Picturesque summer destinations like Hull and Revere offered everything from sandy beaches to raucous amusement parks to grand hotels. Even the working ...

Crime, Corruption and Politics in Hull: The Rise and Fall of Boss Smith's Old Ring
John Galluzzo

The History Press, 2007

If you lived in Hull, Massachusetts, during the first four decades of the twentieth century, you were susceptible to two forces: the political machinations of Boss John Smith and the vitriolic editorial columns of Hull Beacon publisher Floretta Vining. Smith ran the town with an iron fist through fixed elections, padlocked town meetings, kickbacks, graft and bribes. Vining reported on it all and fought it like no other Progressive Era woman ...

The Pendleton Disaster Off Cape Cod
Theresa Mitchell/ Galluzzo, John/ Webster, W. Russell Barbo

History Pr, 2007

The plaque

1 review
John Galluzzo

Angel Publishers, 1997

A Sweeping Romance
What a great love story, so poignant and poetic. Reminds you of the strength and endurance of the heart.

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