Bauhan Publishing
In 1959, William L. Bauhan purchased Richard R. Smith Inc., a Rindge-based publishing company founded in New York City in the 1930s. Bauhan ran R.R. Smith, first under its original name, then as Noone House, named for the family home across from Peterborough’s Noone Falls, and finally, after the Bauhans moved to neighboring Dublin, as William L. Bauhan Inc. After Bauhan’s death in 2006, local writer and editor Ian Aldrich shepherded the company through a transitional phase. Bauhan’s daughter, Sarah Bauhan, who worked with her father for years as a book designer and ultimately managed the company, reincorporated as Bauhan Publishing LLC in 2009.
The company continues to focus on New England regional books in the areas of history, art, nature studies, and poetry, as well as venturing into thoughtful books that explore sustainability of both the earth and the spirit, and a few fiction titles.In 1959, William L. Bauhan purchased Richard R. Smith Inc., a Rindge-based publishing company founded in New York City in the 1930s. Bauhan ran R.R. Smith, first under its original name, then as Noone House, named for the family home across from Peterborough’s Noone Falls, and finally, after the Bauhans moved to neighboring Dublin, as William L. Bauhan Inc.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872333154
Pub Date: 15 Jun 2020
Description:
Winner of the 2019 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. "You will love Dorsey Craft’s rollicking persona, Pirate Bonny Annie, who, in this thrilling book of poems, serves up heaps of scintillant treasures from the bottomless trunk of her imagination, wit, and verve. In Plunder, Jack Sparrow has met his match.
" - Deb Gorlin, judge, 2019 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780872333130
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2020
Description:
Gary Margolis’s eighth book of poetry takes us inside the imagination of a museum of islands. With selections from Runner Without a Number and Time Inside, collections that speak to the Boston Marathon bombing and his experience of facilitating a poetry workshop in a maximum security prison, Margolis continues to explore how the facts of our lives - grief and joy, clarity and confusion - both sustain and lift us, and lead us to meanings in and beyond words. With humor and paradox, he takes us into the many emotional and natural landscapes of New England and our nation - from a town’s summer book sale to an activist scaling the Statue of Liberty; from Chagall to Facebook; from Emerson to Stephen Hawking; from Fenway Park to our state of the union, each poem is expressed with Margolis’s characteristic attention to detail and language, to the associative possibility with what we know, and to the mystery that allows us to walk through a life’s museum of islands.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9780872333093
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2019
Illustrations: Yes
Description:
Today, the sounds of steam whistles and trains are no longer heard among the mountains and valleys in most of Cheshire County, New Hampshire, though to the west and south in the Connecticut Valley and in north-central Massachusetts, steel rails are still very much alive. The two-volume set of Iron Roads of the Monadnock Region brings to life the story of now largely forgotten railroads that once operated in the area, shining new light on the roads’ stories from their beginnings to the present. Authors Blodget and Richards detail how and why the roads were built in the first place, where they went and what they did, their roles in the economy of the Monadnock Region, and what became of them.
Seven years in the making, this set is a compendium of little-known history, tracing the high and low points of the roads, their first and last trains, glory days, times of struggles, disasters, and wrecks. Loaded with hard-to-find historical information, indexed, and copiously illustrated and enriched by rare and unpublished photos - over 700 images, maps, and tables - it’s all here, an essential reference for the serious rail fan.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780872333079
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2019
Illustrations: Yes
Description:
Today, the sounds of steam whistles and trains are no longer heard among the mountains and valleys in most of Cheshire County, New Hampshire, though to the west and south in the Connecticut Valley and in north-central Massachusetts, steel rails are still very much alive. The two volumes of Iron Roads of the Monadnock Region bring to life the story of now largely forgotten railroads that once operated in the area, shining new light on the roads’ stories from their beginnings to the present, tracing high and low points, glory days, times of struggles, disasters, and wrecks. This little-known history of the roads is loaded with hard-to-find historical information, indexed, and copiously illustrated and enriched by rare and unpublished photos—over 700 images, maps, and tables—it’s all here, an essential reference for the serious rail fan.
Following on the first volume, Volume II describes the construction and operational histories of railroads built after the Civil War, when railroad building euphoria swept the Region as communities, left behind by the earliest roads, desperately sought connection to the rail network. Chapters 10–16 cover the Worcester and Hillsborough, Manchester and Keene, Ashburnham, and Ware River roads, as well as street railways and little-known quarry roads.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780872333055
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2019
Illustrations: Yes
Description:
Today, the sounds of steam whistles and trains are no longer heard among the mountains and valleys in most of Cheshire County, New Hampshire, though to the west and south in the Connecticut Valley and in north-central Massachusetts, steel rails are still very much alive. The two volumes of Iron Roads of the Monadnock Region bring to life the story of now largely forgotten railroads that once operated in the area, shining new light on the roads’ stories from their beginnings to the present, tracing high and low points, glory days, times of struggles, disasters, and wrecks. This little-known history of the roads is loaded with hard-to-find historical information, indexed, and copiously illustrated and enriched by rare and unpublished photos—over 700 images, maps, and tables—it’s all here, an essential reference for the serious rail fan.
Volume I presents the story of the formation and operational history of the railroad network in the rugged mountains and valleys of the Monadnock Region. An introductory overview encapsulates the Region’s railroad era: its beginnings, glory years, and end. Chapters 1–9 follow, detailing four roads built before the Civil War: the Vermont and Massachusetts, Cheshire, Sullivan, and Ashuelot.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9780872332997
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2019
Description:
A collection of linked essays, Someday This Will Fit muses on issues that are instantly familiar—from privacy in the digital age to racism at the dinner table, to a friend’s suicide; from Post-Its and Kindles, to head colds and home repairs. In the age of Twitter, these bite-sized narratives evoke the richness and humor of daily life in a brief, compact form. The book’s wry midlife observations offer an insightful, no-nonsense take on modern living.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9780872332966
Pub Date: 01 Sep 2019
Description:
This inventive book has at its core a collection of linked short stories depicting the lives of sideshow oddities in an early twentieth-century carnival traveling through the rural south. While the fiction opens a door to another world, ultimately it invites readers to think differently about the world we inhabit and the universal need to belong, to experience redemption, to reclaim our imperfections as part of what makes us whole. An introductory essay frames the collection, inviting readers to consider more deeply how the socio-historical context and characters create metaphors for our own experience.
The book concludes with a series of creative prompts to engage readers with the text so that the stories continue to unfold.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780872332867
Pub Date: 30 Jun 2019
Illustrations: yes
Description:
Mimi Bull grew up secure and happy in the love of family, friends, and neighbors, never questioning the unusual circumstances that caused her to be adopted in the late 1930s by an older woman with an adult daughter. It was years before she learned the secret truth: the women were her grandmother and her biological mother, and the story of her adoption had been concocted not only to shield her mother’s reputation, but to hide the fact that her father was the gregarious young parish priest everyone adored. Only very recently has the Catholic Church begun to acknowledge the existence of children of priests, and Bull writes candidly of the emotional toll that this policy of secrecy and denial took on her—“I should like to have lived a life with my loving parents, knowing who we all were, knowing my father’s family from the beginning, and without the forty years of depression that compromised me and those I loved.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780872332911
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Illustrations: 10 illus.
Description:
Sydney M. Williams, Jr., joined the American army in 1944 and served in the 10th Mountain Division in Italy until his release in 1945.
All during that time he wrote letters home to his beloved wife, Mary. This collection includes correspondence with other family members and friends, and commentary by his son,
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780872332737
Pub Date: 31 May 2019
Illustrations: yes
Description:
At the opening of the twentieth century, Massachusetts architects struggled to create an authentic new look that would reflect their clients’ increasingly informal way of life. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts Movement in England, the result was a charming style that proved especially appropriate for the rapidly expanding suburbs and vacation houses in the state - charming but overlooked, principally because the style is somewhat difficult to describe. The Arts and Crafts Houses of Massachusetts brings these homes, hidden in plain sight, the attention they deserve.
Meticulously researched and with abundant color photos, the book is the only work focusing on the state’s Arts and Crafts domestic architecture and the only one to include an illustrated field guide. It is also the first book to explore the use of this cutting-edge style in designing buildings for estate servants, transit workers, and renters-groups that historically lacked access to professionally designed homes.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872332935
Pub Date: 30 Apr 2019
Description:
Between 2009 and 2014, McEwen interviewed more than 50 women about their relationship to money. Those interviews culminated in a play (Legal Tender), as well as numerous presentations and workshops, and now this book, in which she shares those stories and some of her own discoveries.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780872332768
Pub Date: 06 Mar 2019
Illustrations: none
Description:
This book focuses on a stream in New Hampshire and how it and other bodies of water have been affected by changes in technology, economic values, new forms of pollution, new ideas about nature and the occasionally unintended consequences of human action. The time period is from the industrial revolution to the present day. The geographic scope is largely New England but also includes recent experiences in other parts of the United States and the world.
The book is as much about people as it is water with stories about conservationists, artists, reservoir managers, government officials, water power people, fishermen, scientists and ordinary citizens around water.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780872332805
Pub Date: 04 Mar 2019
Illustrations: none
Description:
Judge David Blair writes: “This is a poet with range––sympathies, anger, tragedy, other people, love, humor. .
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872333024
Pub Date: 09 Jan 2019
Description:
Winner of the Monadnock Essay Collection Prize Competition judge Anne Barngrover says "I was struck from the first sentence by the crystalline narrative voice - sometimes uncanny, sometimes weird, but always precise, unflinching, and painfully self-aware - and the experimentation with form as a way to dig deeper and question ideas of religion, family, place, community, masculinity, death, and the self. These essays, and their narrator, wouldn’t shake from me after I read them. I wholeheartedly recommend Baptizing the Dead and Other Jobs.
"
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872332706
Pub Date: 13 Nov 2018
Description:
While reporting on citizens fighting natural gas pipelines and transmission lines planned to cut right across their homes, Howard Mansfield saw the emotional toll of these projects. “They got under the skin,” writes Mansfield. “This was about more than kilowatts, powerlines, and pipelines.
Something in this upheaval felt familiar. I began to realize that I was witnessing an essential American experience: the world turned upside down. And it all turned on one word: property.”
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872332645
Pub Date: 16 Oct 2018
Description:
Judge Andrew Merton describes this collection of essays as “a coming-of-age memoir infused with a refreshing generosity of spirit.”
