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Set in a colorfully painted but crumbling housing project near a Buffalo, New York, steel mill, this "novel full of wisdom, grace and poetry" (Newsday) traces two decades in the lives of the project's residents. At the heart of this collective portrait is the Taylor family: Sam, Mary Kate, and their five children. For the Taylors and their neighbors, this is a time of tremendous optimism. The oldest boy, Mikey, shows special promise at school. Sam eats alongside his white coworkers at the local diner after his shift in the mill's inferno. The door to the white world seems to be opening. But...

Since the development of photography in the mid-nineteenth
century, the camera has been used as a tool of both discovery and
preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past and can
open a floodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a
sense of history.
From its early settlement in the 1600s to the present, the area
known as "the Port" and "the Cape" has typified what it means to
live or vacation on the Maine coast. Kennebunkport is a study in
contrasts: fishermen work the sea while tourists fill Dock Square in
search of art,...

This compelling collection of more than two hundred old photographs brings to life South Portland and Cape Elizabeth in the century of change between the 1850s and the 1950s. Most of the photographs in this fascinating visual history are rare and many have never before been published. They are taken from family albums which provide an intimate chronicle of the history of the area, ranging from the Spurwink River to the boatyards at Ferry Village, the estates at Delano Park, and the many neighborhoods that make up South Portland. The photographs introduce us to the people, places, and events...