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: 400
ISBN: 9780872332607
Pub Date: 14 Aug 2018
Description:
This is a book about “a beautiful and gallant craft” - the personification, in a wooden boat, of the finest qualities of the Adirondack culture of the 19th century. Beautifully illustrated, The Adirondack Guideboat is the definitive guide to these beautiful boats and their makers, both early and contemporary.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780872332560
Pub Date: 15 May 2018
Series: May Sarton New Hampshire Prize Winner for Poetry
Description:
This collection, The Light of What Comes After, was selected by judge Jennifer Militello as the winner of the 2017 May Sarton New Hampshire Poetry Prize. Judge Militello writes, “Jen Town’s The Light of What Comes After offers a sure manifesto against the domestic and cosmetic. Town’s poems are wry and aware.
Town’s rich linguistic moments and surprising imagery lend her voice a slant which can seem playful and unafraid, but warning is always stitched just below the surface. This is a writer who knows "Your debts / are more than you’ll ever pay back."
Format: Paperback
Pages: 70
ISBN: 9780872332522
Pub Date: 20 Mar 2018
Illustrations: 12 illus.
Description:
Francelia Clark finds and follows two of the oldest trails in New Hampshire’s Monadnock region into history—on horseback. Along the way she studies the cellar holes and rock remains of houses, wells, and walled cow paths, as well as old journals, to illuminate for readers the lives of the early settlers who made them.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 66
ISBN: 9780872332485
Pub Date: 19 Dec 2017
Description:
In this new collection of poetry, award-winning author Ernest Hebert writes of the trials, tribulations, and worsening plight of the working man, memorializing the “dirty-face people” who “put down the asphalt for the highways, stoked the foundry fires, built the rockets, and packed the computer chips. .
Format: Paperback
Pages: 266
ISBN: 9780872332799
Pub Date: 04 Dec 2017
Illustrations: 20 illus.
Description:
A Time to Dance: American Country Dancing trom Hornpipes to Hot Hash presents a well-documented history of American country dancing. Richard Nevell records American country dances as historical artifacts, as social expressions of rural and urban communities, as manifestations of democracy, and as an evolving traditional art that changes to meet the needs of a changing American society. The breezy, relaxed style lends itself to easy reading, and is accompanied by excellent illustrations.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 64
ISBN: 9780872332447
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2017
Illustrations: 64 colour
Description:
Barking tells the tale of Emily and her sister Charlotte, two King Charles Cavalier Spaniels who live a happy, barking life in New York City, until the day everything comes crashing down—literally—all around them.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780872332508
Pub Date: 17 Oct 2017
Illustrations: 14 illus.
Description:
Howard Mansfield muses on people, places, and life in his own hometown of Hancock, New Hampshire. “Whenever Howard Mansfield writes about the world around him, I pay attention.”Mel Allen, editor, Yankee magazine “It’s as if Walt Whitman had come out of the grave in the persona of Howard Mansfield for one more epic.
I highly recommend this “small book” full of big ideas.”Ernest Hebert, prize-winning author of Howard Elman’s Farewell, The Old American, and nine other novels
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9780872332461
Pub Date: 19 Sep 2017
Illustrations: 75 colour illus.
Description:
North Pole Promise tells the story of a secret legacy of two famous explorers: Commander Robert Peary and Matthew Henson - one white, one African American, who, with four Inuit assistants discovered the North Pole in 1909. Peary and Henson returned to the US shortly after - the white Peary to acclaim, the African American Henson to obscurity - never to go to the Pole again. They each left behind sons, fathered with indigenous Greenlandic Inuit women.
In the 1980s, on a research trip to Greenland, Dr. Allen Counter was introduced to two men in their eighties - the surviving “Amer-Inuit” sons - one from each explorer. Dr. Counter, an explorer himself, tells of discovering the fate of those children and ultimately honoring them and their illustrious forebears on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the North Pole.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872332294
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2017
Description:
Neil Mathison’s writing explores the many ways in which the physical world influences our lives. He muses on heritage, boats, and the sea; ponders how living in the shadow of a volcano shapes a person; and ties the physical world to deeper themes of human life, such as relationships and personal tragedies.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780872332423
Pub Date: 18 Jul 2017
Illustrations: 180
Description:
Albert Duvall Quigley spent most of his life painting the people and landscapes of the Monadnock region. A self-taught musician, he built and repaired fiddles, wrote dance tunes, and played at local dances. He also made frames known for their beautiful workmanship and originality, and prized by many Monadnock artists.
This catalog has been compiled for an exhibition celebrating Quigley’s life and work that will open at the Historical Society of Cheshire County (NH) in May 2017, and for the 250th anniversary celebration of the town of Nelson, NH, where Quigley lived for many years.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780872332386
Pub Date: 27 Jun 2017
Description:
Whether turning their gaze to Midas’s daughter or the silverware in a kitchen drawer, the immersive experience of reading or the dislocation of looking into a rearview mirror, the everyday or the surreal, Joal Hetherington’s prose poems reveal fractal complexities and glimpses of the rich weave of emotion and experience that inhabit even the most innocuous words and gestures.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 128
ISBN: 9780872332324
Pub Date: 16 May 2017
Description:
Alice B. Fogel’s new collection explores what happens to boundaries—psychological, emotional, physical, formal, even syntactical—when people live together for a long time in one house. The house itself has the main point of view, and addresses all its inhabitants as “you.
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Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780872332348
Pub Date: 16 May 2017
Series: May Sarton New Hampshire Prize Winner for Poetry
Description:
A contemporary woman makes complex negotiations with history and culture in a voice equally strong, discerning, God-soaked, and edgy—creating music out of personal longing and cultural tragedy. Hashem Beck’s poems offer a lens through which to see life in the Middle East. They are timeless explorations of love, loss, and the poet’s attempt to understand her own experience in the context of world events and the spiritual realities that permeate them.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780872331860
Pub Date: 13 Sep 2016
Description:
"A shed is the shortest line between need and shelter," writes Howard Mansfield. Drawing on material from his recent book Dwelling in Possibility, Mansfield explores the different types of sheds found around New England and beyond: covered bridges, barns, worksheds, "worship sheds" (meeting houses), extended farmhouses, bob houses for ice fishing. In lyrical style and supported by photographs by Joanna Eldredge Morrissey, Mansfield shows the connection between the design of these structures and their roles in our lives.
"Sheds are like our lives - not the grandest building or the most graceful. Sheds are ordinary - and in that they are exalted."Anyone who has ever traveled the back roads of America will enjoy this beautifully photographed exploration of simple, useful structures.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780872332249
Pub Date: 16 Aug 2016
Illustrations: 60 colour illus. plus maps
Description:
Paul Levy was a year old when his Uncle Phil was killed in World War II, and his family, like many, faced their grief with silence. Upon retirement, and seventy years after his uncle’s death, he set out to discover what might still be found about Phil. At every step, research led to unexpected turns, and ultimately revealed a vivid portrait of Phil’s life and, astoundingly, of his death.
In the process, the author also gained insights into war, antisemitism, family silences, and heroism, and encountered intriguing and sometimes famous characters who had touched Phil’s life.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780872332126
Pub Date: 19 Jul 2016
Description:
Sydney Williams has compiled a medley of essays that reflect on the precious moments of life spent in contemplation, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday grind. They include his time spent in nature, with friends and family, or reflecting on our nation's current affairs. Within his essays there is an inspiring appreciation of the art of savoring life rather than careening through it, unaware of our surroundings and ourselves.
