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: 80
ISBN: 9780872332201
Pub Date: 21 Jun 2016
Format: Paperback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780872332225
Pub Date: 14 Jun 2016
Description:
These stories are specific to one legendary riverfront plateau and one boy’s journey, but are emblematic of immigrant life and blue-collar aspirations during the heyday of American industry and its crash, foreshadowing one of the largest internal migrations in U.S. history.
Approximately six million baby boomers, like the narrator, fled the Rust Belt. Another six million remained and stories of their youth, struggles, and aspirations echo throughout this book. Pittsburgh alone attracts die-hard affinity with its scattered natives.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780872332188
Pub Date: 17 May 2016
Description:
A collection of poems.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 320
ISBN: 9780872332102
Pub Date: 18 Apr 2016
Description:
Gordon Russell has spent the last twenty years chronicling the flora and fauna of the Great Meadow marshland in New Hampshire. His compelling journal of daily observations provides readers of all ages with a cautionary look at the results of human impact on the natural world right outside their doors.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 172
ISBN: 9780872332065
Pub Date: 27 Jan 2016
Description:
Philip Booth published ten volumes of meticulously crafted lyric poems in his lifetime, most of them set in and inscribed by the landscapes and cadences of Down East Maine. Like other major poets writing from New England who were his contemporaries, the echoes of Robert Frost register in his structure and language. Although his work received critical attention and several major awards, he did not enjoy the wide readership that many of his peers attracted.
Available Light combines selected poems and personal photographs to paint a multidimensional portrait of Booth, and aims to ignite new interest in a poet who spent a "lifetime looking into how words see," writing incandescent poems in the process.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780872332089
Pub Date: 03 Dec 2015
Description:
In this new memoir, nature historian Dale Peterson (author of Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man) describes his travels through Africa with Swiss wildlife photographer Karl Ammann. Dedicated to stopping the slaughter of endangered bushmeat, Ammann is in turns brilliant, provocative, and irritating - almost as wild as the animals he seeks to save.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 80
ISBN: 9780872332027
Pub Date: 05 Nov 2015
Description:
Named after a workaday knife wielded by shepherds and farmers in the high pastures of the Alps when a tool for paring, shaping, cutting into, scraping out of, or freeing is useful, these poems likewise cleave away the false and deceptive to clarify and reveal a startling and unifying wonder. In language radiant, lovely, and disturbing, Rebecca Kaiser Gibson explores the linkages between the uncomfortable familiar and the curiously intimate strange, making unexpected connections between phenomena. Arranged by association rather than chronology and connected by a sensual intelligence, this collection wanders from Maryland and India to Boston, France, New Hampshire and Ireland - from Ezekiel's Flight and the Book of Kells, to the Tamil goddess Meenakshi.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780872332003
Pub Date: 31 Jul 2015
Description:
Writer and teacher Leaf Seligman encourages students to use writing as a way to "deepen connection, make meaning or clarify it." In this pocket-sized book she asks more than seventy questions intended as invitations to plumb, to look, to listen, and to engage with life.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780872332157
Pub Date: 24 Jul 2015
Description:
A collection of columns about the wilderness of New England and more from well-known New Hampshire and Vermont naturalist and commentator Willem Lange.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
ISBN: 9780872331945
Pub Date: 11 Jun 2015
Description:
Sparks from the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews is a collection of discussions with contemporary poets, ranging from established elders like W.S. Merwin and Maxine Kumin to dazzling newcomers like Aracelis Girmay and the Dickman brothers, Matthew and Michael.
In conversation with Christian McEwen, they describe their habitual writing practice, influences, and development, as well as their sense of the American poetry scene, and whatever else comes up in the course of a long, thoughtful, richly meandering exchange.The sixteen interviewed poets are:Annie Boutelle Matthew DickmanMichael DickmanPatrick DonnellyRita DoveNikky FinneyAracelis GirmayEdward HirschJane HirshfieldYusef KomunyakaaMaxine KuminGwyneth LewisW.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780872331921
Pub Date: 04 Jun 2015
Description:
In her vital, elegiac poems, Deborah Gorlin inventories her dead in urgent acts of recognition and commemoration. Family members - both nuclear and extended - appear in their native stories to reanimate local histories, intimate geographies, and lost times. In a different series of personae poems, Gorlin catalogues dolls and totems within their particular cultural habitats, which range from Africa to the Andes, and imagines their daemonic hopes, dreams and emotions.
In a final act of inclusion, she takes stock of her own spiritual hesitations, yearnings, approximations, and explorations of such crazy topics as fingernails, Hebraic trees, and fat.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9780872331839
Pub Date: 07 Dec 2014
Description:
Written with a delightful sense of irony and a profound tenderness, The Education of a Yankee is an engaging memoir that skillfully reveals the grand, eccentric, and occasionally tragic history of a very unconventional family. Judson Hale was born into Boston's very proper Brahmin world, the son of a wealthy father who loved sailing and horseback riding and a beautiful, talented mother who loved opera and sang professionally. But readers expecting a conventional account of New England privilege will be delightfully surprised.
The fate of Hale's older brother, Drake, led his parents to embark on a dramatic, extravagant, and visionary undertaking that changed the family's history and brought a remarkable adventure to the small town of Vanceboro, Maine. So began an idealistic and wonderful dream that was to shape Hale's childhood and adolescence, but which ended differently from what his parents had envisioned. The Education of a Yankee, at once funny and touching, is full of marvelous anecdotes about life on this unusual farm. We watch anxiously as he finally meets his brother, Drake, and see him wrestle with the challenges of joining the family-owned Yankee magazine, which, under his editorial direction, has become the third largest regional magazine in the country.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780872331815
Pub Date: 23 Nov 2014
Illustrations: 100 illus.
Description:
"We called him tortoise because he taught us."—Lewis Carroll A daily reader of prayer and meditation in serving the practice of lectio divina or "divine reading" based on the twelve chapters of Christian McEwen's 2011 book called World Enough & Time: On Creativity and Slowing Down. Focusing in turn on different subjects, each month introduces a new subject ranging from "the art of slowing down," considering good company and conversation, investigating "child time," to the joys and relaxation to be found in walking.
Those who are familiar with Christian's original text will recognize many of the entries, which have been arranged so as to flow smoothly from one to the next, helping to deepen and clarify each particular theme. The title is drawn, with laughing gratitude, from Lewis Carroll (see the epigraph, above), though it has more ancient origins too. In The Tortoise Diaries, Christian McEwen gives her readers beautiful insight of how slowness can open doors to sustained creativity.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9781941934005
Pub Date: 20 Nov 2014
Description:
Humorous commentary on the worlds of advertising, marketing, and business travel.A selection of Roger Collis’s best work across the decades, this book draws from his days of subversive reportage inside the advertising industry and international marketing to his later commentaries on the world of business travel and the witty, self-deprecating travails of daily life as a journalist in the South of France.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 160
ISBN: 9780872331754
Pub Date: 22 Aug 2014
Description:
These essays-or as Sydney Williams calls them: "musings"-are evocative of a time and a place-of growing up in a New Hampshire village in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Sydney Williams was the second of nine children whose parents were sculptors and who was raised on a small farm, with horses, goats and chickens-an unconventional life in an unconventional place, but during a conventional time. They include memories of his parents and their families, of books and of skiing.
While they are personal, their message is universal message. It is one of remembrance-the closeness of families and the effect genes and environment have on how we become who we are.
Format: Hardback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9780872331792
Pub Date: 09 Jul 2014
Illustrations: 200 colour illus.
Description:
Stonlea, a magnificent Colonial Revival, was built in 1890 by the Boston firm of Peabody & Stearns as a summer house overlooking Dublin Lake (New Hampshire) with a view of Mt. Monadnock. A vivid example of 19th century resort architecture, Stonlea bore the telltale patina of many years' of wear and tear when the new owner decided to bring it back not only to its original luster but into the 21st century, including using the latest technology to reduce the impact of the 12,000-square-foot house on the environment.
Stonlea: An Old House Remade for Our Times documents the painstaking steps involved in the preservation and renovation of this building, and describes the renovators' techniques. It specifically addresses the renovation of the fabric of the building-the various energy conserving strategies and the mechanical systems-as well as the whys and wherefores of the design, and is intended to serve as a model and inspiration for similar undertakings, regardless of size.