Synopsis

NORTH HAVEN SUMMERS
An Oral History

by Eleanor Richardson

$29.95

“Of course, that last summer she came in an ambulance. She wasn’t the first grandmother to do it when she could no longer get to North Haven under her own steam. Not to come was unthinkable. That would have meant her life was over.”

So begins the story of the tenacious people of the summer community on a lovely island in Penobscot Bay, Maine. Little did the two men who visited on Memorial Day in 1882 dream of the effect of that visit – or did they? The pull is strong for those who summered there in ensuing generations, so strong that some have moved to the island permanently.

North Haven Summers, first published in 1991, describes the drama, humor and adventure of life on this small island told by more than 90 summer and year-round residents, illustrated with 165 photos gleaned from crumbling family albums or taken by the author. Revisions for this second edition are minimal. This work stands as a snapshot in time.

Hardbound, 258 pages, 167 photographs. Includes Appendix and is fully indexed. Second printing. ISBN: 978-0-9741152-7-6

Island Thorofare

1886 Picnic