Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees - A Celebration of New England''s Eccentrics and Misfits

Wicked Weird & Wily Yankees explores and celebrates the eccentric personalities who have left their mark on the region in a way no other book has before. Stretching back to the colonial era and covering the development and evolution of New England society through the beginning of the twentieth century, this book captures the rebel spirit, prickly demeanors, and wily attitudes that have made the region the hotbed for oddity it is today.

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By Stephen Gencarella

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Gencarella, Stephen Olbrys Gencarella
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781493032662
• ISBN: 978-1-4930-3266-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Mark Twain, Leatherman, Folklore, Emily Dickinson, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, 20th Century, HISTORY / Reference, Witches, Reference works, Local History, Myth & legend told as fiction, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, US Northeast: New England, Writers, Outcasts, Fiction: Traditional stories, myths and fairy tales, naturalists, mediums, William Sheldon, Mary Webster, Mary Vanderbilt, Smith Sisters, John Moody, Madame Sherri, F.C. Fowler, bandits, vagabonds, Timothy Dexter, Colonial era, Gillette Castle, William Gillette, English Jack, eccentrics, Darn Man, reformers, preachers, Horace Johnson, Hermit, Phineas Quimby