Jogging Around New England

Charles Hanson Towne

• Publisher: A Thousand Fields
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781528700238
• eBook ISBN: 9781528783507
• Subtopic: North American History

First published in 1939, this vintage book contains a charming travelogue of the author's experiences jogging around New England, north-eastern United States. An authentic glimpse into American life in the early twentieth century, "Jogging Around New England" is not to be missed by fans and collectors of vintage travel writing. Contents include: "On the Hurry of Americans", "A Dig at Dare-devils", "In Praise of Suburban Architecture", "A Little Fling at Gas-stations and Outdoor Advertising", "Getting into Connecticut", "Lunch at Silvermine", "Guildford and its Old Houses", "A Chance Meeting", "Pine Orchard", "Summer Theatres", "Old Lyme and Round About", etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Title
• Charles Hanson Towne
• Dedication
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Author’s Note
• I On the hurry of Americans. A dig at daredevils. In praise of suburban architecture. A little fling at gas-stations and outdoor advertising.
• II Getting into Connecticut. Lunch at Silver-mine. Guilford and its old houses. A chance meeting. Pine orchard. Summer theaters
• III Old Lyme and round about. A captain and his home. The legend of Bride Brook
• IV The country round Old Mystic. Watch Hill. Narragansett, yesterday and to-day. On to Kingston. From Jamestown to Newport
• V In praise of “Tourists Accommodated.” Fall River, and Lizzie Borden’s old house. On to New Bedford. A suggestion as to naming streets. The boat to Nantucket
• VI Quaint Nantucket. Soft and rugged Martha’s Vineyard. Wood’s Hole. Cape Cod. In praise of back roads
• VII Plymouth Rock. The Boston Tea-Party wharf. Salem. Beverly Farms. Hamilton and Ipswich. Concord
• VIII The vanished moors of Gloucester, and Marblehead. Lowell and Lawrence and Haverhill. Newburyport, and Kent’s Island. Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Kennebunkport
• IX A Danish village. Portland, and Longfellow’s house. The Desert of Maine. A roadside lunch. Brunswick and Bowdoin College. Bath. The way to Newcastle. Other villages. Belfast
• X Bar Harbor, on Mount Desert Island. Skowhegan and Lakewood. Lonely country. Vanished tramps. Bethel
• XI Into New Hampshire. A sigh for vanishing covered bridges. Mount Washington and the Old Man of the Mountain. Crawford Notch. Bretton Woods. Concord, and St. Paul’s School. On the duplication of village names. Newbury. Deerfield and Indian House. Northampton and Smith College. Coolidge’s old home. Amherst. The Mohawk Trail. Rural school-houses
• XII Back to New Hampshire and Dublin. A friendly open door. Falling leaves. A little song of September. The MacDowell colony at Peterboro. A pleasant policeman. Those sturdy Vermonters in their peaceful valleys
• XIII Old Bennington in a storm. The Monument. Dear little Ascutney. Windsor, and on to Woodstock to call on Otis Skinner. Another covered bridge. The Long Trail. Bristol and a movie. Close to Canada and Lake Champlain. French signs. Through the rain to Sudbury. Polished Manchester. Dorset, and an old cemetery at Arlington
• XIV A last glimpse of Vermont. A poet’s house on a hill. Back to Connecticut and Massachusetts. The wild course of the hurricane. Queena Mario’s school. To Washington and round about Stockbridge. Edith Wharton’s old house at Lenox. Back to New York