John Williams : A Composer's Life, Hardcover by Greiving, Tim, Like New Used,...
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John Williams : A Composer's Life, Hardcover by Greiving, Tim, Like New Used,.... John Williams : A Composer's Life, Hardcover by Greiving, Tim, ISBN 0197620884, ISBN-13 9780197620885, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "THE MUSIC BEGAN IN AN ANCIENT FOREST. Most of Maine, ninety percent of the state, is forest. Hardy Norway maple, white ash, American elm, and Northern white cedar made the state's central coast a banquet for shipbuilders. When the first European steppedon the soil of present-day Bath in the summer of 1605, Captain George Weymouth immediately recognized this area-with its bustling river lanes, natural docks, and treasury of timber-as an excellent hub for ships. The region's gold was its white pine, which was felled and skidded across New England to make masts for the Royal Navy. Bath became known as the "City of Ships," and in the prosperous 1800s "the busy shipyards attracted workmen from outside," according to a history by Edward Clarence Plummer, "and the romance of the sea drew many of the native young men to a seaman's career." By midcentury, the city boasted multiple churches, mansions, and a theater. The Civil War asked Bath for gunboats and spent two hundred of its sons, and in the war's wake there was a brief depression; men were out of work and vagrants roamed the streets"--
