By Matthew P. Mayo
Published: Globe Pequot, 2011.
297 pp. Softcover in original binding. Not Ex-Lib.
The story of New England is built on an endless armature of fascinating tales of Yankee ingenuity and intrepid characters, and Bootleggers, Lobstermen & Lumberjacks brings together the top 50 wildest among them--shipwreck victims surviving any way they could; Indian, pirate, and shark attacks; cougar and bear attacks; and, of course, rum runners and bootleggers doing what they do best. Read these stories and many more: Boon Island's Curse: A winter wreck in 1710 strands fourteen sailors on this barren rock off the coast of York, Maine. Ten survive--through cannibalism. Massachusetts Bay Man-Eater: Angler Joseph Blaney, in 1830, attracts the attention of two great white sharks in the middle of Massachusetts Bay. The Last Vampire: In 1892, to ward off evil spirits, a Rhode Island girl's corpse is exhumed, her organs are burned, and family members inhale the smoke.
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