Block Island Revealed
Title | Block Island Revealed PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard Closset |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-04-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781792337703 |
A History of Block Island
Title | A History of Block Island PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Truesdale Livermore |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 1877 |
Genre | Block Island (R.I. : Island) |
ISBN |
Block Island
Title | Block Island PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Regional Photos |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9781933212418 |
"With his gallery on the wharf and thirty-plus years on the island, Malcolm Greenaway is the Rembrandt of Block Island photographers."
The Palatine Wreck
Title | The Palatine Wreck PDF eBook |
Author | Jill Farinelli |
Publisher | University Press of New England |
Total Pages | 258 |
Release | 2017-09-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1512601179 |
Two days after Christmas in 1738, a British merchant ship traveling from Rotterdam to Philadelphia grounded in a blizzard on the northern tip of Block Island, twelve miles off the Rhode Island coast. The ship carried emigrants from the Palatinate and its neighboring territories in what is now southwest Germany. The 105 passengers and crew on board-sick, frozen, and starving-were all that remained of the 340 men, women, and children who had left their homeland the previous spring. They now found themselves castaways, on the verge of death, and at the mercy of a community of strangers whose language they did not speak. Shortly after the wreck, rumors began to circulate that the passengers had been mistreated by the ship's crew and by some of the islanders. The stories persisted, transforming over time as stories do and, in less than a hundred years, two terrifying versions of the event had emerged. In one account, the crew murdered the captain, extorted money from the passengers by prolonging the voyage and withholding food, then abandoned ship. In the other, the islanders lured the ship ashore with a false signal light, then murdered and robbed all on board. Some claimed the ship was set ablaze to hide evidence of these crimes, their stories fueled by reports of a fiery ghost ship first seen drifting in Block Island Sound on the one-year anniversary of the wreck. These tales became known as the legend of the Palatine, the name given to the ship in later years, when its original name had been long forgotten. The flaming apparition was nicknamed the Palatine Light. The eerie phenomenon has been witnessed by hundreds of people over the centuries, and numerous scientific theories have been offered as to its origin. Its continued reappearances, along with the attention of some of nineteenth-century America's most notable writers-among them Richard Henry Dana Sr., John Greenleaf Whittier, Edward Everett Hale, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson-has helped keep the legend alive. This despite evidence that the vessel, whose actual name was the Princess Augusta, was never abandoned, lured ashore, or destroyed by fire. So how did the rumors begin? What really happened to the Princess Augusta and the passengers she carried on her final, fatal voyage? Through years of painstaking research, Jill Farinelli reconstructs the origins of one of New England's most chilling maritime mysteries.
Ghosts of Block Island
Title | Ghosts of Block Island PDF eBook |
Author | Frances Huggard Migliaccio |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Block Island (R.I. : Island) |
ISBN | 9780977363902 |
The Block Island Mystery
Title | The Block Island Mystery PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher J Dacey |
Publisher | Out of the Past Mysteries |
Total Pages | 298 |
Release | 2021-05-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Its October 1970. Out of work police detective Duke Jameson is asked to investigate the mysterious deaths of two male students at the University of Rhode Island. As soon as Jameson arrives on campus, hidden forces begin to work against him. A missing professor, a corrupt sheriff, an eccentric millionaire, campus drug pushers, and more than one beautiful woman draw him into the Block Island Mystery
Dangerous Crossing to Block Island
Title | Dangerous Crossing to Block Island PDF eBook |
Author | Lars Trodson |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020-11-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780578785721 |
In this ingenious, exciting thriller, two agents working for the federal government hide a witness on Block Island in order to keep him alive and safe.