Gloucester and Rockport (MA) (Images of America)

This series of books features photos collected from various local sources including historical societies, chambers of commerce, churches, schools and postcards. The  Gloucester and Rockport (MA) (Images of America)  provides the same slice of life photos, and provides glimpses of a not too distant past. My grandfather was born and raised in Rockport, and my mother in Gloucester, and my recently released novel,  The Marvelous Journals of Miss Virginia Pettingill  is about a precos girl's seventh grade year in Gloucester. Consequently, I have a few quibbles about mislabeling of some of the photos. Often, these mistakes are found on images from postcards, where the captions on the reverse of the card were wrong, and author John Hardy Wright just repeated those errors.But those mistakes are minor compared with the massive undertaking of distilling almost 400 years of history into 128 pages. I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves Cape Ann.

Great for New England buffs and historians.

Awesome pictures

This is an amazing book, which contains colorful pages that tell us the story and important places of these magnificient towns.If you were to Gloucester or Rockport, this book is for you!!

Aunt loved this gift about her home town. These books in this type of series are excellent