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Author Gencarella, Stephen Olbrys, 1971- author.

Title Wicked, weird & wily yankees : a celebration of New England's eccentrics and misfits / Stephen Gencarella.

Publication Info. Guilford, Connecticut : Globe Pequot, 2018.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  972 GENCARELLA    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  974 GENCARELLA    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  920 GENCARELLA    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  974 GEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  974 GENCARELLA    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  974 GENCARELLA    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  974 GEN    Check Shelf
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Contents Introduction: let us now praise eccentric folk -- The lord: Timothy Dexter (MA and NH) -- The secret keeper and the seer: Joseph Moody (ME) and Horace Johnson (CT) -- The unruly women: Mary Webster (MA) and Hetty Green (VT and MA) -- The hermits: John Smith (MA) and English Jack (NH) -- The healers: Elisha Perkins (CT) and Sylvester Graham (MA) and Robert Wesselhoeft (VT) and F.C. Fowler (CT) -- The settler: William Blackstone (RI) -- The poets: Sarah Helen Whitman (RI) and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (MA) -- The mesmerists: John bovee Dods (ME and MA) and Phineas Quimby (ME) -- The fortune tellers: Moll Pitcher (MA) and Mary Vanderbilt (ME) -- The prophet: William Sheldon (MA) -- The reformers: Smith Sisters (CT) -- The vagabonds: the Old Darned Man (Ct) and the Leather Man (CT) -- The bandit: John Wilson (VT) -- The wealth seekers: Edward Norton (NH and VT) and Samuel Bemis (NH) and Phineas Wright (CT) -- The benefactors: George Beckwith (CT) and Joseph Battell (VT) and Isabella Stewart Gardner (MA) -- The castle-builders: William Gillette (CT) and Madame Sherri (NH) -- The great American traveller: Daniel Pratt (MA) -- The visionaries of the ordinary: Joseph Palmer (MA) and William Rose (RI) and Elizabeth Tashjian (CT) and Bill Johnson (ME) -- The legendary eccentrics: Charles Dunbar (MA and ME) and Tombolin (MA) and Tom Cook (MA).
Subject New England -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New England -- Biography.
Eccentrics and eccentricities -- New England -- History.
Eccentrics and eccentricities. (OCoLC)fst00901271
New England. (OCoLC)fst01241913
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Online version: Gencarella, Stephen Olbrys, 1971- Wicked, weird & wily yankees. Guilford, Connecticut : Globe Pequot, 2018 9781493032679 (DLC) 2017053577
ISBN 9781493032662 (pbk.)
1493032666
9781493032679 (ebook)
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