Mysteries and Legends of New England: True Stories Of The Unsolved And Unexplained (Myths and Mysteries Series) - Softcover

McCain, Diana Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0762750596 ISBN 13: 9780762750597

Publisher: Globe Pequot, 2009

Synopsis

From vampires to an angel, a ghost rapper to a phantom ship, Mysteries and Legends of New England pulls back the curtain on some of the region’s most fascinating and compelling stories. 

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Thirteen Mind-Boggling Tales fromMaine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut,and Rhode Island  Dressed in leather scraps, the Leather Man walked the same 365-mile-long route through Connecticut   for more than twenty years, and his identity remained a mystery or did it?  Dr. Timothy Clark Smith feared being buried alive, so when he dropped dead in Middlebury,   Vermont, in 1893, his crypt included a window to his open casket, so passersby could raise the alarm   if his worst nightmare came true!  For more than a century, people have reported seeing something they can neither identify nor explain   in the waters of Lake Champlain exactly what that something is, is the mystery. From vampires to an angel, a ghost rapper to a phantom ship, Mysteries and Legends of New England pulls back the curtain on some of the region’s most fascinating and compelling stories. 

About the Author:

Diana Ross McCain holds an M.A. in history and is the author of It Happened in Connecticut and Connecticut Coast (both Globe Pequot), as well as the award-winning To All on Equal Terms, the story of Connecticut’s official state heroine, Prudence Crandall. She is a frequent contributor to Early American Life and Connecticut magazines and the Hartford Courant.

About this edition

• Publisher: Globe Pequot
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0762750596
• ISBN 13: 9780762750597
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192