Visit Lovell, Maine and travel in time through the years! Dr. Robert C. Williams has retired to Lovell, Maine, and taken the opportunity to use his educational background combined with his love of history and finely honed writing skills to produce this first professional history of the town of Lovell. Read this book and follow the settlement from the survey of the Merrimack River in 1652 through the famous battle at Pequawket in 1725 to the current struggle between the forces of development and preservation. Williams haunted local archives, as well as state archive collections of Massachusetts, Maine and New Hampshire to produce this comprehensive history of Lovell, Maine. The writing is enlivened by current and historical photos and illustrations. For the historical researcher Williams has added a very thorough index.
About the Author
Dr. Robert C. Williams (Ph.D., Harvard, 1966) is a semi-retired historian and the author of numerous books and articles in modern Russian, European, and American history. He has taught at Williams College, Washington University in St. Louis, Davidson College and part-time at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He first came to his grandfather's summer camp on Kezar Lake in West Lovell in 1939. He and his wife Ann now live permanently in Center Lovell.
Reviews
"Lovewell's Town is a fascinating, well-presented story of Lovell's complex history, especially the convoluted colonial period when politics, border disputes and land claims bounced the town around between states...a comprehensive and entertaining small town history, from early colonial settlement and Indian wars, to the 19th century economics and today's development and conservation." — William Bushnell, The Times Record
About the Author
Dr. Robert C. Williams (Ph.D., Harvard, 1966) is a semi-retired historian and the author of numerous books and articles in modern Russian, European, and American history. He has taught at Williams College, Washington University in St. Louis, Davidson College and part-time at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. He first came to his grandfather's summer camp on Kezar Lake in West Lovell in 1939. He and his wife Ann now live permanently in Center Lovell.
Reviews
"Lovewell's Town is a fascinating, well-presented story of Lovell's complex history, especially the convoluted colonial period when politics, border disputes and land claims bounced the town around between states...a comprehensive and entertaining small town history, from early colonial settlement and Indian wars, to the 19th century economics and today's development and conservation." — William Bushnell, The Times Record
