Connecticut Waters

Connecticut Waters
Author: Caryn B. Davis
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-04-09
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 149304642X

Connecticut Waters is a tribute to Connecticut’s maritime roots both past and present. The book takes readers on a nautical journey exploring the many ways Nutmeggers use our lakes, rivers, sounds and shores for industry, education, and recreation. From boat builders, to antique, power and sailing vessels, to lobster shacks, the oyster and fishing industries, historic ferries, nautical arts, lighthouses and islands, charter boats, maritime festivals and celebrations, and more, this book showcases how these waterways have defined our culture and shaped our heritage as a state.

Quiet Water New Hampshire and Vermont

Quiet Water New Hampshire and Vermont
Author: John Hayes
Publisher: Appalachian Mountain Club
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-08
Genre: Canoes and canoeing
ISBN: 9781878239945

Discover more than 90 scenic destinations Z99 this updated and expanded edition of our popular guide

Fishing the Connecticut and Rhode Island Coasts

Fishing the Connecticut and Rhode Island Coasts
Author: Bob Sampson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781580801096

Here is a thorough guide to fishing in the Northeast, from a seasoned pro. Includes insider's tips on techniques and hot-spots guaranteed to produce results.

Flyfisher's Guide to Connecticut

Flyfisher's Guide to Connecticut
Author: Ron Merly
Publisher: Wilderness Adventures Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2011-12-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1932098895

Over 350 rivers, brooks, lakes and ponds are covered in this guide. Detailed maps show every oxbow, cove, campground, boat launch, and access point. Also included is hub city information, including accommodations, restaurants, fly shops and everything else needed to plan a trip. Also covers covers the pressing issues facing Connecticut's fisheries, including invasive species and funding issues facing Connecticut trout stocking.

Connecticut Architecture

Connecticut Architecture
Author: Christopher Wigren
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2018-10-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0819578142

Connecticut boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in New England, from Colonial churches and Modernist houses to refurbished nineteenth-century factories. The state's history includes landscapes of small farmsteads, country churches, urban streets, tobacco sheds, quiet maritime villages, and town greens, as well as more recent suburbs and corporate headquarters. In his guide to this rich and diverse architectural heritage, Christopher Wigren introduces readers to 100 places across the state. Written for travelers and residents alike, the book features buildings visible from the road. Featuring more than 200 illustrations, the book is organized thematically. Sections include concise entries that treat notable buildings, neighborhoods, and communities, emphasizing the importance of the built environment and its impact on our sense of place. The text highlights key architectural features and trends and relates buildings to the local and regional histories they represent. There are suggestions for further reading and a helpful glossary of architectural terms A project of the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation, the book reflects more than 30 years of fieldwork and research in statewide architectural survey and National Register of Historic Places programs.

The Hundred Waters

The Hundred Waters
Author: Lauren Acampora
Publisher: Grove Press
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2022-08-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0802159753

Celebrated by the Boston Globe as “a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs,” the deliciously weird and darkly offbeat Lauren Acampora returns to the secret lives of the polished Connecticut haven that got us all hooked on NPR Best Book of the Year The Wonder Garden, and jolts us with the sparks that fly when those lives collide “Acampora’s prose has a seductive, pearlescent allure.”—TIME Magazine Formerly a model and photographer trying to make it in New York, Louisa Rader is back in her affluent hometown of Nearwater, Connecticut, where she’s married to a successful older architect, raising a preteen daughter, and trying to vitalize the provincial local art center. As the years pass, she’s grown restless in her safe and comfortable routine, haunted by the flash of the life she used to live. When intense and intriguing young artist-environmentalist Gabriel arrives in town with his aristocratic family, his impact on the Raders has hothouse effects. As Gabriel pushes to realize his artistic vision for the world, he pulls both Louisa and her daughter Sylvie under his spell, with consequences that disrupt the Raders’ world forever. A strange, sexy, and sinister novel of art and obsession, in The Hundred Waters Acampora gives us an incisive, page-turning story of ambition, despair, desire, and the pursuit of fulfillment and freedom at all costs.

Hidden Waters of New York City

Hidden Waters of New York City
Author: Sergey Kadinsky
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-03-22
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1581573553

A guide to the forgotten waterways hidden throughout the five boroughs Beneath the asphalt streets of Manhattan, creeks and streams once flowed freely. The remnants of these once-pristine waterways are all over the Big Apple, hidden in plain sight. Hidden Waters of New York City offers a glimpse at the big city’s forgotten past and ever-changing present, including: Minetta Brook, which ran through today's Greenwich Village Collect Pond in the Financial District, the city's first water source Newtown Creek, separating Brooklyn and Queens Bronx River, still a hotspot for urban canoeing and hiking Filled with eye-opening historical anecdotes and walking tours of all five boroughs, this is a side of New York City you’ve never seen.