Welcome to the Monhegan Book Shelf
The purpose of this sub section to Monhegan Commons is to furnish suggested titles of Monhegan related books and articles for all the “Monhegan Book Geeks”, as Karen Shaw Knapp so eloquently put it. You know who you are! This section will grow and flourish, if you, as well, will share your suggestions here as you find Literature on Monhegan. We would ask that there is a substantial Monhegan content to what you suggest for reading. It can be in the form of books or articles. The beginning content of the list below is that, just the beginning. This section will go on as long as there are books written about and including Monhegan, and as long as readers like yourself share the titles and articles with all of us who wish to read about our beloved island.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions, and/ or suggestions, at oceanpt9 at verizon.net Any and all ideas, or offers of volunteering to help with researching and finding titles and/or articles, are truly welcome! The inclusion of as much information regarding publishing, etc. is also a plus for those of us who wish to seek them out.
I thank you in advance,
R.A. Szostek
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Monhegan, Her Houses and Her People 1780-1970 by Ruth Grant FallerPublished by Mainstay Publications 1995
ISBN 0-9658593-1-2
The Island Shepherd by Yolla Niclas
Published by Viking 1959
Rediscovering S. P. Rolt Triscott, Monhegan Artist and PhotographerBy Richard H. Malone & Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.Published by Tilbury House Publishers, Gardiner, Maine 2002
ISBN 0-88448-240-5
A Year on Monhegan by Julia Dean
Published by Ticknor & Fields 1995
The Lobster Coast, Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier by Colin WoodardPublished by Viking, Penguin Group 2004
ISBN 0-670-03324-3
Under the Grey Gull’s Wing by Alta AshleyPublished by Grey Gull Publications Fifth printing 1995
ISBN 0-9614592-0-4
This is the Island by Ann Mears WaitzPublished by Amereon House 1994
ISBN 0-8488-1714-1
Five Monhegan Days by Cindy DrakeAlso available a companion video to this book, “Roses in December, the Soul of Monhegan Island”Published by Acorn Productions 2001
1-888-432-2676
Monhegan the Artists’Island by Jane & Will Curtis and Frank LiebermanForeward by Carl LittlePublished by Down East Books 1995
ISBN 0-089272-347-5
Poet’s Cove: an Anthology, Monhegan in Poetry 2000-2002 edited by Marjorie MirPublished by New Monhegan Press
ISBN 0-9742276-0-9
ADDITIONS TO THE BOOKSHELF OCTOBER 2004
Monhegan: Her Houses and Her People 1780-2000 by Ruth Grant Faller, Second Edition
Published 2001\Mainstay Publications. 78 Bellevue Ave., Melrose, MA 02176
ISBN 0-9658593-2-0
The Weather and Climate of Monhegan 04852 by Alan Faller
Published by Mainstay Publications
Melrose, Massachusetts
781-979-0983
ISBN 0-9658593-3-9
A Foraging Vacationby Raquel Boehmer
Published 1982 Down East Books, Camden Maine
An Eye for the Coastby Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr.
Published 1998Tilbury House Publishers
Gardiner, Maine
An Image of Monhegan by John Kleinhans
Second edition 2000
Published by Precipice Publications
West Hurley, New York
914-679-7626
ISBN 0-9660091-2-6
The Art of Monhegan Islandby Carl Little and Arnold Skolnick
ISBN 0-89272-648-2
Available November 1, 2004
Down East Books Camden, Maine
Marjorie of Monhegan and Ben of Old Monhegan
Both by Sidney Baldwin
Both published by June B. Day 1973 in paperback Ben of Old Monhegan in hard back published 1933 byRow, Peterson and Company Evanston, Illinois
Birds of Monhegan Island, Maineby Monhegan Museum
1970 Pamphlet
Monhegan Museum, Monhegan, Maine
Clear Sailing by Harold B. Clifford
Published by Grey Gull Publications 1987
Monhegan Island, Maine
David and the Sea Gulls by Marion Downer
Published 1956 Hardcover
By Lothrop,Lee and Shepard Company, Inc. New York
Hark to the Bell Bouys’ Song by Alta Ashley
Published by Grey Gull Publications 1990
Damariscotta, Maine
Island Dreams and Dreary Day Dances by Charlie Charles
Published by Charlie Charles 1993
Island Winter by Charles E. Martin
Published 1993 Hardcover by Greenwillow Books, New York
Islands of the Mid-Maine Coast:Volume III:Muscongus Bay and Monhegan Island by Charles B. McLane Published by Tilbury House and the Island Institute of Maine 1992
Monhegan Island and its Lighthouse by Thomas W.Taylor
Published by Infinity Publishing, Haverford, PA 2003
Monhegan Island Maine, Yesterday and Todayby Ade Mersfelder
1966
Monhegan Memories
William Vaughan
Monhegan Island Maine 1998
Monhegan Mishmashby Ruth Lothrop
Published by Ruth Lothrop 1987
Monhegan, Maine: Photosby Lorimer E. Brackett by Lorimer E. Brackett
Published by Colonial Offset Printing,Inc. 1980
Monhegan: The Cradle of New Englandby Ida Sedgwick Proper
Published by The Southworth Press, Portland, Maine 1930
Mug-Up Time on Monhegan by Helen L. Jahn
Pubished by Helen L. Jahn, Monheagan Island, Maine 1956
Raquel’s Guide to Northeast Winter Vegtables by Raquel Boehmer
Seafood Soundings Press, Monhegan, Maine 1988
Raquel’s Main Guide to New England Seafoods by Raquel Boehmer
Published by Seafood Soundings Press, Monhegan, Maine
1988
Sea Horse: A Shetland Pony Comes to Monhegan by Harold B. Clifford
Published by Grey Gull Publications Monhegan, Maine 1987
Side by Side on Monhegan: The Henri Circle and the American Impressionistsby Susan Danly
Monhegan Museum, Monhegan Island, Maine 2004
Summer Business by Charles E. Martin
Pub. By Greenwillow Books, New York 1984
The Allure of the Maine Coast: Henri and His Circleby Jessica F. Nicoll
Portland Museum of Art, Portland Maine 1995
Time Before the Boat by Alta Ashley
Published by Grey Gull Publications, Monhegan Maine 1985
Trailing Yew: A Story of Monhegan by Patience Stapleton
Hudson Printing Company, Boston, MA 1921
The Fortunate Island of Monhegan by Charles Francis Jenney
Reynolds Printing, New Bedford, MA 1927
Island Voices:Poetry of Monhegan, Selected Poems from the Island Visions/Island Voices Shows, Monhegan Island, Maine
Stone Island Press, 2001
Monhegan Memories by Clara Burton
Impatiens Press 1998
Monhegan Island Cooks: Recipes,Art,Poetry
Pub. Monhegan Memorial Library
Monhegan Island, Maine 2002
Post Cards from Monhegan,circa 1900 by Steve Mitchell
Pub. Steve Mitchell, Brunswick, Maine 1995
Lawrence C. GoldsmithA Life in Watercolor by Carl Little, with Foreword by Mel Gussow
Hudson Hills Press New York and Manchester 2004
ISBN 1-55595-242-9
Abraham J. Bogdanove: Painter of Maineby Jessica F. Nicoll
Spanierman Gallery, LLC, New York 1997
It’s Me O Lord by Rockwell Kent
Published by Dodd, Mead & Co. New York 1955
On IslandChristopher Crossman
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 2000
Rockwell Kent’s Forgotten Landscapes by Scott R. Ferris
Down East Books, Camden, Maine 1998
Watercolors by William Trost Richards by Linda S. Ferber
Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. New York 1989
Dead Cat Museum, Monhegan Island by David Grima
James Graham & Sons, Inc. New York 1999
Jamie Wyeth-Monhegan by Lauren Smith
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 2000
Jamie Wyeth: Islands by Christopher Crossman
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine 1993
Murder with Puffins by Donna Andrews
St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2001
Monhegan A Guide to Maine’s Fabled Island by Mark Warner
ISBN 978-0-89272-721-6 DownEast Books www.downeast.com
Monhegan Windows by Matthew Kiell copyright 2009 by Matthew Kiell
Hope and Hard Times….communities, collaboration and sustainability by Ted Bernard copyright 2010 by Ted Bernard Paperback ISBN 978-0-86571-654-4 New Society Publishers 1-800-567-6772