Published 2007

 

294 pages, including 60 illustrations, bibliography, index. Hardcover $28.00; paperback $22.00. Published by Whale's Jaw Publishing

Purchase from booksellers on Cape Ann and the North Shore area; the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath, Maine; Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, Maine; Borders bookstores in Peabody, MA and Brunswick, ME; Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, MA; or online from Amazon.com.

The maritime culture of Cape Ann, Massachusetts is the mix of a noble maritime heritage; ubiquitous sea influences that reach as far as the quarries behind Rockport and into the haunted tracks of Dogtown Common; seductive but capricious natural splendors; and untidy independence that repels some but converts other visitors into lifetime devotees.

Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea portrays these contrasting elements in the makeup of Gloucester - plus Rockport, Essex and Manchester-by-the-Sea - and the wealth of painting, sculpture, music, decorative arts, poetry, fiction and narrative prose that the mix has somehow produced, bursting forth from every seam of this very different Massachusetts cape.

Gloucester Daily Times June 14, 2007

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"I simply could not put down (Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea) ... What will be found in these pages is not only an accounting of those who shaped the sea's many uses to our needs, but those who have done so as well through the arts ... Relaxing with a really fine book can be a special treat when it bridges time between what was and what is, and "Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea" does that very well indeed."

Bill Plante, former executive editor of Essex County Newspapers

 

Cape Ann Writers, Painters, Sculptors, Musicians

cited in Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea

George Aarons Sylvester Ahola Peter Anastas Milton Avery Kim Bartlett Gifford Beal Cecilia Beaux David Benjamin Theresa Bernstein David Black Catherine Drinker Bowen Virginia Lee Burton Lester Cady Bernard Chaet Antonio Cirino James B. Connolly Melvin Copeland S. Foster Damon Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Richard Henry Dana, Sr. Capt Solomon Davis Stuart Davis George Demetrios David Deveau Frank Duveneck T. S. Eliot Ralph Waldo Emerson Barbara Erkkila Clarence Manning Falt Vincent Ferrini Charles B. Fisk Robert Frost Joseph E. Garland Edmund Gilligan William Glackens Charles Grafly Gordon Grant Capt. Linda Greenlaw Edward Everett Hale Ellen Day Hale Walker Hancock Marsden Hartley George Harvey Childe Hassam Charles Boardman Hawes Sterling Hayden Aldro T. Hibbard

Thomas Wentworth      Higginson Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Winslow Homer Edward Hopper Lester Hornby Israel Horovitz William Dean Howells William Morris Hunt Anna Hyatt Huntington Electa Johnson Irving Johnson Sebastian Junger Herbert Kenny John Kieran Rudyard Kipling Leon Kroll Max Kuehne Fitz Henry (Hugh) Lane Lucy Larcom Marc Lescarbot Jonas Lie Henry Wadsworth     Longfellow Capt. Gorham Low Percy MacKaye Charles Edward Mann Paul Manship Gilbert Margeson A. Hyatt Mayor David McAveeney Raymond McFarland Merrill F. McLane William Meyerowitz William Vaughn Moody Frederick Mulhaupt Judith Sargent Murray Charles G. Nicastro Martha Oaks James F. O’Gorman, Charles Olson “Oliver Optic,” (William T.      Adams) Steven Parrish Carl Peters Jane Peterson Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Morgan Faulds Pike

Thomas Piraino Herb Pomeroy Edward Potthast Maurice Prendergast James Pringle George Procter Peter Prybot Waino T.Ray Kitty Parsons Recchia Richard Recchia Hiram Rich Sarah Fraser Robbins F. J. G. Robinson Elliott Rogers John Ronan Erik A. R. Ronnberg, Jr. Arthur K.Rose Epes Sargent Capt. Epes Sargent Nathaniel Southgate Shaler Henry Davis Sleeper John Sloan Capt. Joshua Slocum Capt. John Smith Sylvanus Smith William Lester Stevens Dana Story Marshall W. S. Swan R. Salve Testaverde Anthony Thieme Gordon Thomas Henry David Thoreau John Twachtman Yoichi Udagawa Mason Walton John Jay Watson John S., Webber, Jr. Nan Webber William S Webber, Jr. Katherine Lane Weems Stow Wengenroth Edwin Whipple John Greenleaf Whittier Alfred Wiggin John Wilmerding Rev. John Wise Clarice Yentsch

Gloucester author-historian Chester Brigham, the author of Gloucester's Bargain with the Sea, has also written The Stream I Go A-Fishing In: Musical Adventures of Gloucester Schoonerman John Jay Watson, and is the author/producer of "The Fiddling Fisherman," a narrated musical excursion based on the career of John Jay Watson.