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Wicked, weird & wily yankees, a celebration of New England's eccentrics and misfits, Stephen Gencarella

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

collective biography

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Wicked, weird & wily yankees

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Stephen Gencarella

a celebration of New England's eccentrics and misfits

Introduction: let us now praise eccentric folk -- The lord: Timothy Dexter (MA and NH) -- The secret keeper and the seer: Joseph Moody (ME) and Horace Johnson (CT) -- The unruly women: Mary Webster (MA) and Hetty Green (VT and MA) -- The hermits: John Smith (MA) and English Jack (NH) -- The healers: Elisha Perkins (CT) and Sylvester Graham (MA) and Robert Wesselhoeft (VT) and F.C. Fowler (CT) -- The settler: William Blaxton (RI) -- The poets: Sarah Helen Whitman (RI) and Frederick Goddard Tuckerman (MA) -- The mesmerists: John Bovee Dods (ME and MA) and Phineas Parkhurst Quimby (ME) -- The fortune tellers: Moll Pitcher (MA) and Mary Scannell Pepper Vanderbilt (ME) -- The prophet: William Sheldon (MA) -- The reformers: Smith Sisters (CT) -- The vagabonds: the Old Darned Man (CT) and the Leather Man (CT) -- The bandit: John Wilson (VT) -- The wealth seekers: Edward Norton (NH and VT) and Samuel Bemis (NH) and Phineas Gardner Wright (CT) -- The benefactors: George Beckwith (CT) and Joseph Battell (VT) and Isabella Stewart Gardner (MA) -- The castle-builders: William Gillette (CT) and Antoinette Sherri (NH) -- The great American traveller: Daniel Pratt (MA) -- The visionaries of the ordinary: Joseph Palmer (MA) and William Henry Harrison Rose (RI) and Elizabeth Tashjian (CT) and William Johnson (ME) -- The legendary eccentrics: Charles Dunbar (MA and ME) and Tombolin (MA) and Tom Cook (MA)

Wicked, weird and wily yankees