Title & Author:
Massachusetts : a guide to its places and people / written and compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of Massachusetts ; Frederick W. Cook, secretary of the Commonwealth, cooperating sponsor.
Publication:
Boston, [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1937.
Cambridge, [Mass.]: The Riverside Press
Description:
xxxvi, 675 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm + folded map in pocket.
Series:
American guide series
Notes:
"Copyright, 1937, by George W. Nutting, Director of Publicity, Commonwealth of Massachusetts"--Title page verso.
Map, "Key to Massachusetts tours" on front lining-paper.
Maps on verso of folded map in pocket: Winter sports area[s] / courtesy of the Massachusetts State Planning Board -- Public picnic sites, beaches & camp grounds / courtesy of the Massachusetts State Planning Board -- Boston.
Includes 64 unnumbered pages of photographs in eight groups, each preceded by a half-title not included in the paging.
Includes "Fifty books about Massachusetts" (p. [637]-638) and index.
One moment, please! -- General information -- Calendar of events -- [I].Massachusetts : the general background: Clues to it's character ; Natural setting ; First Americans ; Enough of it's history to explain it's people ; Government ; Labor ; Architecture ; Literature ; Literary groups and movements ; Music and the theater ; Art -- II. Main Street and village green (city and town descriptions and city tours): Amherst : an adventure in quietude ; Arlington : history and homes ; Boston : the hub of the universe ; Brockton : city of shoes ; Brookline: opulent confort ; Cambridge : university city ; Chelsea : city of transformations ; Chicopee : the future-minded ; Concord : golden age heaven ; Dedham : the sober-minded -- Deerfield : a beautiful ghost ; Everett : industrial half sister ; Fall river : city of falling water ; Fitchburg : the farmer goes to town ; Gloucester-Rockport (Cape Ann) : Mother Ann's children ; Haverhill : from hardscrabble to hats and shoes ; Holyoke : the power of water ; Lawrence : warp and woof ; Lexington : a town of heroic past ; Lowell : company founders and city fathers ; Lynn : machine city ; Malden : neighbor of Boston ; Marblehead : where tradition lingers ; Medford : rum, ships and homes ; New Bedford : thar she blows! ; Newburyport : city of the Captains' houses ; Newton : commuter's haven ; Northhampton : from Jonathan Edwards to Sophia Smith ; Northfield : a prophet with honor ; Norton : typical New England ; Pittsfield : power-source and playground ; Plymouth : The colony's first 'Main Street' ;l Provincetown : way up along ; Quincy : iron ships and great men ; Revere : a beach beside a city ; Salem : New England's treasure-house ; Somerville : traditons of the trade ; South Hadley : milk, butter and ideas ; Springfield : the metropolis of western Massachusetts ; Taunton : largest city for its size ; Waltham : city of five-score industries ; Watertown : cradle of the town meeting ; Wellesley : town of schools... and a college ; Weymouth : aggregate of villaged ; Williamstown : buckwheat, barley and gentlemen ; Wobrun : home of a Yankee count ; Worcester : heart of the Commonwealth -- III. High roads and low roads (mile-by-mile description of the state's highways): Tour 1. From New Hampshire (Portsmouth) to Rhode Island (Providence), US 1 ; Tour 1A: From Newburyport to Everett, State 1A ; Tour 1B: From Dedham to North Attleborough, State 1A ; Tour 1C: From Beverly to Uxbridge, State 62 and 126 ; Tour 1D: From Boston to Milford, State 109 ; Tour 2: From Boston to New York (Troy), State 2 (Mohawk Trail); Tour 2A: From Orange to New Hampshire (Peterboro) to Littleton, State 119 ; Tour 2B: From Orange to New Hampshire (Keene), State 78 ; Tour 3: From Boston to New Hampshire (Concord), US 3 ; Tour 4: From Boston to New York (Albany), US 20 ; Tour 4A: From Woronoco to Great Barrington, State 17 ; Tour 4B: From Huntington to Hinsdale (Sky Line Trail) ; Tour 5: From Boston to New Hampshire (Salem), State 28 ; Tour 6: From Orleans to Rhode Island (Providence), US 6 ; Tour 6A: From Orleans to Provincetown, US 6 ; Tour 7, From New Hampshire (Seabrook) to Worcester, State 110 and State 70 ; Tour 7A: From Newburyport to Haverhill, State 125 ; Tour 8: From Boston to Pittsfield, State 9 ; Tour 8A: From Williamsburg to Hinsdale, State 143 ; Tour 9: From Vermont (Stamford) to Connecticut (Salisbury), Appalachian Foot Trail ; Tour 10: From Plymouth to Rhode Island (E. Providence), US 44 ; Tour 11: From New Hampshire (Fitzwilliam) to Connecticut (Thompson), State 12 ; Tour 11A: From Westminster to Worcester, State 64, 31, 122A -- Tour 12: From Provincetown to Wiliamstown (Capes to the Berkshires Bridle Trail) ; Tour 13: From New Hampshire (Rindge) to Connecticut (Granby), US 202 ; Tour 14: From New Bedford-Martha's Vineyard-Nantucket -- Tour 15: From Vermont (Guilford) to Connecticut (Thompsonville), US 5 ; Tour 15A: From New Hampshire (Hinsdale) to Bernardston, State 10 ; Tour 15B: From Adams to Springfield, State 116 ; Tour 15C: From Northampton to Westfield, State 10 ; Tour 15D: From West Springfield to Connecticut (Suffield), State 5A ; Tour 17: From Vermont (Pownal) to Connecticut (North Canaan), US 7 ; Tour 17A: From Pittsfield to Connecticut (Salisbury), State 41 ; Tour 17B: From Lanesborough to Summit of Mt. Greylock (Rockwell Rd.) ; Tour 19: From Boston to Bourne, State 28 ; Tour 19A: From Orleans to Bourne, State 28 ; Tour 21: From Vermont (Stamford) to Connecticut (Winsted), State 8 ; Tour 23: From Athol to Rhode Island (Providence), State 32 and 122 ; Tour 23A: From Barre to Connecticut (Willimantic), State 32 ; Tour 23B: From Grafton to New Bedford, State 140 ; Tour 25: From Boston to Rhode Island (Tiverton), State 138 ; Tour 27: From Boston to Bourne, State 3 ; Tour 27A: From Quincy to Kingston, State 3A ; Tour 27B: From Weymouth to East Bridgewater, State 18 -- Chronology -- Fifty books about Massachusetts.
Also available online from the HathiTrust and Internet Archive websites.
Subject:
Historic sites Massachusetts.
Lieux historiques Massachusetts.
Historic sites
Manners and customs
Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Guidebooks.
Massachusetts Social life and customs.
Massachusetts History.
Massachusetts Guides.
Massachusetts Mœurs et coutumes.
Massachusetts Histoire.
Form/genre:
travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.
Added entries:
Cook, Frederic W. (Frederic White), 1873- sponsor.
Nutting, George M., sponsor.
Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration of Massachusetts, author.
Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth, sponsor.
Massachusetts. State Planning Board, cartographer.
American guide series.
Massachusetts
Holdings:
Location: Library main 318037
Call No.: 318037
Copy: 1
Status: Available
