Description
These bizarre collections of photographs and narrative captions have wide appeal for any person interested in Maine’s past.
Bunting has a knack for spotting the ordinary in a photograph, or some minor detail that, in truth, tells a big story concerning the how and why. From granite quarry operations to an itinerant cobbler in a sailing scow to hootchie-kootchie dancers on the state fair to deepwater ships, his page-long captions place these images in social and economic context–but this isn’t dry history. His research has uncovered a wealth of fascinating, steadily quirky detail (were you aware that mummy wrappings were imported from Egypt for Maine papermaking?), and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition. B&W photographs