Campobello: Roosevelt's Beloved Island [Hardcover]

Stephen O Muskie (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 131 pages
• Publisher: Down East Books for the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission; 1982 Edition edition (1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892721375
• ISBN-13: 978-0892721375
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,325,342 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Oral History at its Finest, July 20, 2009

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John Galluzzo (Weymouth, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Campobello: Roosevelt's "Beloved Island"

Oral histories are monologues frozen in time, and Muskie's work captures a snapshot of Campobello and its people around twenty years after, thanks to the construction of the Rainbow Bridge, it was connected to the mainland, and had started to lose its island identity.

While the first chapter quotes heavily from Alden Nowlan's Campobello: The Outer Island, the rest of the book is a mixture of oral histories and full color photographs that capture the color of the community, from the sardine cannery to the fishing weirs to the centers of religion to the stories behind the scenes at Roosevelt International Park.