JOE GARLAND'S BIOGRAPHY A newsman, American Newspaper Guild organizer and later a freelance writer. After his graduation from Harvard, Joe Garland has covered politics, civil liberties, labor relations, economics, medicine, science, the environment, and social, political and maritime history. He has also written some 350 columns for the Gloucester Daily Times and nineteen books, including thirteen on the North Shore of Boston and his home town of Gloucester, where he lives with his wife Helen on the harbor shore of Eastern Point. He has finished a memoir of his infantry combat intelligence platoon in Europe during World War II.
Excerpts from Joe Garland's most recent book, BEAM REACH- Further voyaging in the Gloucester Daily Times with other miscellaneous musings 1951-1997,are now available!
Choose from these exciting tales:
How We Got to be So Salty
The Merry Bull
An' Ya Don' Know Whare Yer At?
The Big Fish Chase the Little Fish
The Wild Filming of Bride 13 New!
The Wilder Filming of As Ye Sow
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Check back soon to see what new chapters have been added.
NORTH SHORE BOOKS BY JOSEPH E. GARLAND |
| LONE VOYAGER |
The Life of Howard Blackburn |
| THAT GREAT PATTILLO |
The Life of James William Pattillo |
EASTERN POINT
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A Nautical, Rustical and Social Chronicle of Gloucester's Outer Shield and Inner Sanctum, 1606-1950 |
| THE GLOUCESTER GUIDE |
A Stroll through Place and Time |
| GUNS OFF GLOUCESTER |
Cape Ann in the American Revolution
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| BOSTON'S NORTH SHORE |
Being an Account of Life among the Noteworthy, Fashionable, Wealthy, Eccentric and Ordinary 1823-1890. |
| BOSTON'S GOLD COAST |
The North Shore, 1890-1929 |
| DOWN TO THE SEA |
The Fishing Schooners of Gloucester |
| ADVENTURE |
Queen of the Windjammers |
THE EASTERN YACHT CLUB |
A history from 1870 to 1985 |
| BEATING TO WINDWARD |
A voyage in the Gloucester Daily Times through the stormy years from 1967 to 1973. |
GLOUCESTER ON THE WIND
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A Photographic History of America's Greatest Fishing Port in the Days of Sail: 1870 to 1938
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BEAM REACH
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Further voyaging in the Gloucester Daily Times with other miscellaneous musings 1951 to 1997
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