Paid much attention to dyer. They thought she was a crackpot, a lewin tuck. Who would write lunatic. Who would write books for 50 years decrying the shakers . Models of new england farm life and history. Yet as i read her text, i realized this isnt a woman whos insane, this is a woman whos angry. This was a woman who was placed in an untenable position as a woman in American Society in the first decades of the 19th century. The more i read, the more i realized this was more to this story than an angry woman trying to retrieve her children. Mary and joseph dyer were New Hampshire farmers living in the earliest years of the 19th century. At that time New Hampshire, especially in the far north, was still a frontier. And they were seeking security in an uncertain world. And they found it in religion. They became early converts to the religious group known as the shakers. The shakers are an american communal sectarian group. They are protestant in their orientation. They live separate from
Capture, john mccain talks about the impact of the vietnam war on his life and country sunday at 6 00 and 10 00 p. M. Eastern on American History tv on cspan3. Announcer American History tv is that the main Historical Society maine Historical Society collecting artifacts. One goes back to the 15th century. Welcome to the maine Historical Society, the third oldest Historical Society founded in 1822 and have been collecting at this location since 1907. For the early years, maine Historical Society moved around a bit, the public library, and city hall, and once the house was donated to the society, we built this library. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation where we added 13,000 feet to the back of the 1907 building. The temperature and humidity controls, climate controls. We also have an offsite storage case for larger collections since we have outgrown the footprint of our intown location. We collect specifically on maine , but our materials to reach back to the 15th century
Some of these authors have a will be appearing on booktv. You can watch them on our website, booktv. Org. Often i think of the beautiful town that is seated by the sea and often in fossil upanddown the pleasant streets of that town and my youth comes back to me. Welcome to portland, maine, on booktv. Located on a peninsula, it was the original capital of maine and started as a fishing and trading village. Today its the largest city in the state with a population of about 66,000. It still has strong ties to its maritime history with lobstering and tourism in its largest economic drivers. With help of our spectrum Cable Partners for the next 90 minutes will feature the areas history and literary community. Whitney kent are special feature on portland with a history of lobstering industry. We begin our special feature. Over here is my gps and radar. So and thought it helps us figure out where we are. I dont mark my traps with the gps. I i kind of do it by feel. Look at that bad boy. Its a
Watch on cspan. Org and on cspan, or listen in the freeseas bandwidth radio app. For the next hour, a book tv exclusive our cities to her visits portland, maine, to learn more about its unique history and literary life. For six years, we traveled in u. S. Cities, bringing the book seem to our viewers. You can much more of her visits at cspan. Org cities tour. More of our visits at cspan. Org cities tour. These are some of the items that i pulled out to show the , which of our collection documents the exploration and founding of maine from about the 16th century through the modern period. This is a piece from 1565, reportedly one of the first uses of this term in print. Is a legendary city, the el dorado of the american northeast. It is claimed to be a viking settlement of riches and gold never to be found, but often sought after, in the true sense in the age of exploration. This is all you three of for mobiles of a volume, loosely translated as a documentation of the exploration of the
States. We are founded in 1822. Collecting at this location since 1907 in portland. Historical city was in brunswick and moved to portland the 1870s, we moved from and c library to city hall once the society was donated, we library in 1907. In 2007, we underwent restoration and renovation and 13,000 square feet of archival Storage Space to the building. E that is what were in today, temperature and humidity control, climate controlled space, we store our collection. E have offsite Storage Space we use for larger collections and since weve outgrown our location. We connect on main, but have broader scope and reach back to the 15th century, terrible hat is not a amount of our collection, the bulk of our materials are from he 18th century and 19th century, from about the 17001900, although we have colonial and dating from the 1600s relating to canada and ime newsmakers. We are showing the treasures of society. Storical early in years we collected broadly on history, anything that had to d