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Newfound Freedom, Live
My novel, Newfound Freedom, is now available as a trade paperback and hardback from Amazon.com. The Electronic version is available from Kindle. Click on my books for direct ordering links. A brief...
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PreChristmas Book Signing Events
“…a rollicking tale, complete with sea battles, budding love affairs, familial infighting and even brief appearances by patriots George Washington and Nathan Hale.” A Kirkus Review excerpt of my novel...
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Newfound Freedom: Finalist for 2013 BOTYA
Newfound Freedom has been selected as a Finalist for the 2013 ForeWord Review’s Book of the Year Award in General Fiction. This recent novel of 18th Century colonial and nautical adventure and life is...
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Aboard an Historic Great Lakes Bulk Freighter
National Museum of the Great Lakes Entrance A long time ago—a very long time ago—I got to stroll the decks of a Great Lakes bulk freighters. When I was in elementary school, my father had connections...
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Margaretta Day in Machias, Maine 2014
“Huzza! In the face of Great Britain’s retribution, the people of Machias have voted to maintain their Liberty Pole that stands to commemorate the Patriots of Concord and Lexington.” This impassioned...
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CREMATORIUM OF SHIPS
Broad Cove, located between Eastport, Maine on the east and Shackford Head State Park on the west, plays a minor role in my recent novel Newfound Freedom. This is where my fictitious Captain Francklin...
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Finding Nautical History at Moosehead Lake, Maine
This past September (2015) Marian, my wife, wanted to photograph some moose. So we decided to spend a couple of days in Greenville, Maine, a little city at the southern end of Moosehead Lake. This town...
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Serene and Rugged Beauty – Grand Manan Blog I
North Head Community North Head Harbor In the first of my Jack Hollister novels, Newfound Freedom, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Buzzard takes up refuge off Grand Manan Island to wait out a weeklong...
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Battle at the Rim
When Jack Hollister is asked by General Washington to infiltrate the British Army, Jack accepts—without question. Will Jack succeed…or will he be discovered and hanged? BATTLE AT THE RIM, MODLIN’S...
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Battle of the Rim Reenactment
Patriots aligned for battle on White’s Point, Machias River, Machias, ME The actual Battle of the Rim occurred August 13 & 14, 1777, when Great Britain sought to avenge the capture the HMS...
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