5" x 8" trade paperback,
128 pages
ISBN 0-9767590-4-7
$11.95

Sample Pages

A review by Dennis Robinson, historian and creator of www.SeacoastNH.com 

Portsmouth Herald Review  

Book can be purchased at Rice Public Library in Kittery and at Amazon. 

Kittery: Gateway to Maine A History & Guidebook to Kittery & Kittery Point 

by Friends of the Rice Library

Kittery at your fingertips. A guidebook meant, primarily, to encourage the love of Kittery's history, to bring the old names and old stories alive once again these pages. Kittery, dating from 1647, has a great deal of history, after all, and a great deal of it is interesting indeed. The book is also designed to enlighten and inform those passing through on their way north or south.

HISTORY GALORE: Kittery's forefathers and how they got here; the origins of the name of Kittery; why fishing and shipbuilding were Kittery's big attractions and how Kittery became home to the oldest Navy base in the country.

THE ROMANTIC, BYGONE DAYS OF... Celia Thaxter, Appledore House, the history of the Isles of Shoals, the slower forms of 19th-century transportation and the resort hotels they served.

PRACTICAL AND FUN THINGS TO DO: From visiting parks, forts and beaches, swimming, picnicking, fishing, kayaking and sailing, to mini-golf and running your dog, to the gentler pleasures of cocktail harbor cruises, concerts and art galleries.

A SCENIC DRIVING TOUR OF ROUTE 103 ... with its historic homes, monuments and parks, its Historical & Naval Museum, schools and churches.

USEFUL KITTERY INFORMATION: Local businesses and outlet shops, restaurants, B&Bs and motels.

AND ~ learn how to cook and eat a real live Maine lobster!