The Pavilion was a 79 foot, 3 inch long American sailing ship of no particular significance. She was one of many similar ships. The Pavilion spent half of her career carrying general cargo between merchants in New York City and their business associates in Baltimore. The second half of her career was spent hunting down whales. This book is the biography of that ship. It tells what is known of the ship and the ordinary people who worked with her. The story starts with details of ship construction at Higganum Landing, Connecticut along the Connecticut River, and ends in a struggle for survival...

This is a story of the World War I and World War II mobilization barracks built by the Quartermaster Corps staff, contractors, union laborers, and professional advisors who, when everything hit the fan, did the impossible. Camp Devens was carved from stands of scrub pines in central Massachusetts in 1917 as one of 16 National Army Cantonments that were needed to mobilize an army for World War I . This is the story of how a downsized, antiquated army rushed to provide housing for an army that was on requisition, to fight battles that had already been scheduled. In 90 days, a military city was...