Cape Cod National Seashore: The First 50 Years (Images of America) by Daniel Lombardo

Cape Cod National Seashore: The First 50 Years (Images of America) by Daniel Lombardo

When Pres. John F. Kennedy established the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961, it was acclaimed as the finest victory ever recorded for the cause of conservation in New England.

When erosion and overdevelopment threatened the Cape, the idea of a national seashore took hold, forever protecting this treasured place. The park preserves 44,000 acres of forest, marsh, bog, and ponds, and a 40-mile stretch from Provincetown to Chatham, which Henry David Thoreau called the Great Beach. Unlike other national parks at the time, the Cape Cod National Seashore was created from a combination of private, town, state, and federal lands. Cape Cod National Seashore: The First 50 Years captures the political drama of the creation of this extraordinary seashore. Images detail an early Native American presence and the romance of whaling, shipwrecks, lighthouses, windmills, and dune shacks.

Lombardo, Daniel: - Daniel Lombardo, curator of special collections at the Jones Library in Amherst, has created a journey through the seasons in the towns of Amherst and Hadley that will fascinate and delight young and old alike. Lombardo has written a number of other books, including Amherst and Hadley, Massachusetts in the Images of America series, and his work makes an important contribution to the recorded history of the area.

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ISBN 13	9780738572840
ISBN 10	0738572845
Title	Cape Cod National Seashore: The First 50 Years (Images of America)
Author	Daniel Lombardo
Series	Images Of America Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Arcadia Publishing
Year published	2010-07-12
Number of pages	128
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