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Strawbery Banke : A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making by J. Dennis Robinson (2008, Hardcover)

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Rich with pictures and painstakingly researched, this work is actually two books in one. The story then goes behind the scenes to the controversial founding of Strawbery Banke Museum in 1958.

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Winner of the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History (2008) Strawbery Banke Museum is a rich core sample of an ever-changing America. The ten-acre museum campus, New Hampshire's earliest neighborhood, began as a British plantation on a tidal inlet. Abandoned by its founders in 1635, the settlement "accidentally" named Strawberry Bank survived to become New Hampshire's only seaport. A century later the bustling Portsmouth waterfront was home to royal governors, tall ships, skilled artisans, and wealthy merchants. When the maritime economy crashed and the city burned in the nineteenth century, the "Puddle Dock" neighborhood drew waves of immigrant families to its ancient low-rent buildings. Then in the twentieth century, fearful of urban "blight," a federal redevelopment project went off here like a neutron bomb. The population and the junkyards disappeared, but a grassroots preservation movement saved many historic buildings from the bulldozers of progress. Rich with pictures and painstakingly researched, this work is actually two books in one. The first tracks 400 years of history along the Piscataqua River with dramatic tales that will surprise even New Hampshire natives--and reads like a thrilling adventure novel. The story then goes behind the scenes to the controversial founding of Strawbery Banke Museum in 1958. Tapping into private letters, unpublished records and personal interviews, the author explores the politics of preservation in a small blue-collar city. Always lively, this highly readable history tracks modern Portsmouth from a gritty working seaport to a cultural heritage destination, assessing what is gained and what is lost along the way.

Product Identifiers

PublisherStrawbery Banke Museum

ISBN-100960389628

ISBN-139780960389629

eBay Product ID (ePID)64288487

Product Key Features

Book TitleStrawbery Banke : a Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Museums, Tours, Points of Interest

Publication Year2008

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, History

AuthorJ. Dennis Robinson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Weight52.1 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width8 in

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Reviews"[Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making] is really two books in one, for the volume covers both the four-hundred-year history of the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only major seaport, and the more recent fifty-year history of Strawbery Banke, Inc (now Strawbery Banke Museum) . . . Robinson has done a superb job telling this tale, weaving together the two stories in an almost seamless pattern."- Historical New Hampshire, "[T]he dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a Britishplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago."--Accent, "[Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making] is really two books in one, for the volume covers both the four-hundred-year history of the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only major seaport, and the more recent fifty-year history of Strawbery Banke, Inc (now Strawbery Banke Museum) . . . Robinson has done a superb job telling this tale, weaving together the two stories in an almost seamless pattern."--Historical New Hampshire, "[Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making] is really two books in one, for the volume covers both the four-hundred-year history of the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only major seaport, and the more recent fifty-year history of Strawbery Banke, Inc (now Strawbery Banke Museum) . . . Robinson has done a superb job telling this tale, weaving together the two stories in an almost seamless pattern."-Historical New Hampshire, "[T]he dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a Britishplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago."-Accent, "[T]he dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a Britishplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago."ÑAccent, [Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making] is really two books in one, for the volume covers both the four-hundred-year history of the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only major seaport, and the more recent fifty-year history of Strawbery Banke, Inc (now Strawbery Banke Museum) . . . Robinson has done a superb job telling this tale, weaving together the two stories in an almost seamless pattern., "[T]he dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a British\Rplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago."--Accent, "[The dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a Britishplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago."-Accent, "[The dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a Britishplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago."--Accent, "[T]he dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a Britishplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago."- Accent, "[Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making] is really two books in one, for the volume covers both the four-hundred-year history of the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only major seaport, and the more recent fifty-year history of Strawbery Banke, Inc (now Strawbery Banke Museum) . . . Robinson has done a superb job telling this tale, weaving together the two stories in an almost seamless pattern."ÑHistorical New Hampshire, [T]he dramatic story of New Hampshire's oldest neighborhood and only seaport. In 400 pages and over 300 photos and illustrations, Robinson's enthralling narrative takes you back to the neighborhood's beginnings as a Britishplantation and its bustling Colonial heyday up through its near destruction and controversial founding as a museum fifty years ago., "[Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making is really two books in one, for the volume covers both the four-hundred-year history of the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only major seaport, and the more recent fifty-year history of Strawbery Banke, Inc (now Strawbery Banke Museum) . . . Robinson has done a superb job telling this tale, weaving together the two stories in an almost seamless pattern."-Historical New Hampshire, "[Strawbery Banke: A Seaport Museum 400 Years in the Making is really two books in one, for the volume covers both the four-hundred-year history of the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire's only major seaport, and the more recent fifty-year history of Strawbery Banke, Inc (now Strawbery Banke Museum) . . . Robinson has done a superb job telling this tale, weaving together the two stories in an almost seamless pattern."--Historical New Hampshire

Photographed byHaynes, Richa, Jr., Armsden, Douglas, Morang, Ralph

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