{"product_id":"a-boston-harbor-islands-adventure-the-great-brewster-journal-of-1891-paperback","title":"A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephanie Schorow\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eFriends of the Boston Harbor Islands\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England's prim and proper society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the Acrobat, and the Autocrat, the women rusticated in a cottage on Great Brewster Island, reveling in the chance to shed their identities of wife, mother, and daughter. Relive their sojourn through their remarkable journal, filled with observations, illustrations, photographs, and poetry, reproduced here by the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Great Brewster Journal project was conceived and coordinated by Stephanie Schorow, the author of eight books about Boston history, including \u003ci\u003eEast of Boston: Notes from the Harbor Islands\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cocoanut Grove Nightclub: A Boston Tragedy\u003c\/i\u003e, both for The History Press. Support for the project came from the Friends of the Boston Harbor Islands (FBHI) under the direction of Suzanne Gall Marsh, founder of FBHI, a current FBHI board member and a former National Park ranger for the Boston Harbor Islands. Stephanie and Suzanne assembled a team of nine writers and researchers, many of them longtime volunteers for FBHI, including Ann Marie Allen, Allison Andrews, Vivian Borek, Carol Fithian, Walter Hope, Pam Indeck and Marguerite Krupp. Elizabeth Carella, a photographic historian, provided analysis of the journal's photos. Martha Mayo, retired director of the Center for Lowell History at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, provided Lowell background.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 9.04 x 6.19 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 05, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52586051404069,"sku":"9781467151689","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0987\/2487\/2485\/files\/J_EVhTdoMO9781467151689.webp?v=1781605413","url":"https:\/\/c4lhome.com\/products\/a-boston-harbor-islands-adventure-the-great-brewster-journal-of-1891-paperback","provider":" Companion for Life Five Home","version":"1.0","type":"link"}