Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931 by Hesselberg, Erik

Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781493044498)

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Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931 by Hesselberg, Erik

Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931

$45.00
Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931 by Hesselberg, Erik

Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1815-1931

$45.00
Format: Hardcover
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Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut 1824-1931, is a portrait of the vanished steamboat days - when a procession of stately sidewheelers plied between Hartford and New York City, docking at Peck's Slip on the East River in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge. Steamboating not only brought people and goods--Colt's firearms and Essex's pianos--down river to New York for export to world markets, but also helped America's inland "Spa Culture" transplant itself to the seashore, making steamboating not just convenient transportation but also a social phenomenon noted by such writers as Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

Author: Erik Hesselberg
ISBN-10: 1493044494
ISBN-13: 9781493044498
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.65lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.50d
By Erik Hesselberg
By Erik Hesselberg
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Erik Hesselberg has been writing about the Connecticut River for 20 years, first as an environmental reporter for the Middletown Press, and after as executive editor of Shore Line Newspapers in Guilford. CT. He was President of the Middlesex County Historical Society, where his research on 18th century Middletown and the West Indies trade, "A Vanished Port," appearing in Wesleyan Magazine, led to an award-winning exhibit. He was a regular contributor to the Hartford Courant and continues to write about the Connecticut River at his blog, voicesontheriver.com. Night Boat to New York; Steamboats on the Connecticut 1815-1931, is his first book. He lives in Haddam, CT.

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