George F Thompson Publishing • Gill Books Global Collective Publishers Occupying Massachusetts
Inland The Abandoned Canals of the Schuylkill Navigation
Layers of History on Indigenous Land
Sandy Sorlien John R. Stilgoe
Sandra Matthews David Brule
$45 • Hardback • 184 pages 11x9 • 103 color photographs, 20 historic illustrations, and two maps • June 2022 • PHO023040 • 978-1-93-808691-5 Sandy Sorlien lives in Rhode Island
$40 • Hardback 100 pages • 10x8.5 • 61 color photographs and 1 map April 2022 • PHO023040 • 978-1-93-808689-2 Sandra Matthews lives in Northampton, MA
Utilizing a muted color palette, Matthews’s photographs of both structures and historical markers are subtle and haunting. They suggest the presence of histories, embedded in the landscape but often invisible. Although the book is focused on Massachusetts, it implicitly raises larger issues of settlement and nationhood. How did the United States of America come to occupy its land? How is this story told? As a longtime occupant/occupier of Massachusetts herself, Matthews aims to understand more deeply the land on which she lives. The main text of the book comes from photographs of historic markers, which were installed around the state at different times by different interest groups. The words on these markers describe early relations between Indigenous people and largely English settlers, from diverse points of view. In this way, the book explores how difficult histories are written and how they change over time.
The Schuylkill River flows more than 100 miles from the mountains of the Pennsylvania Coal Region to the Delaware River. It passes through five counties—Schuylkill, Berks, Chester, Montgomery, and Philadelphia—and its valley is home to more than three million people, yet few are aware of the hidden ruins and traces left by a pioneering 200-year-old inland waterway: the Schuylkill Navigation. Some of it is literally buried in their own backyards. Along with Sorlien’s full-color plates and explanatory essays, Inland features a selection of historic images, rare historic Schuylkill Navigation Company maps, and early Philadelphia Watering Committee plans. The book also includes a foreword by renowned landscape scholar John R. Stilgoe, an essay on regional transportation history by Mike Szilagyi, Trails Project Manager for the Schuylkill River Greenways Natural Heritage Area, and an afterword by Karen Young, Director of the Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center. A sweeping new Schuylkill River map by Morgan Pfaelzer connects it all.
Waterford Whispers News 2021
One Day at a Time 2022 Diary
Colm Williamson
A Year-Long Journey of Personal Healing and Transformation
$23.50 • Paperback 144 pages • 6.9x9.6 December 2021 HUM007000 978-0-71-719257-1
Waterford Whispers News is the ninth annual from Ireland’s leading online satirical site, featuring the funniest stories of the year. Read all about the big news stories of 2021, Waterford Whispers style! Packed with brilliant satire, sharp wit and insightful social commentary, Ireland’s answer to The Onion is now a worldwide phenomenon and a must-read in an era when the news has never been more unpredictable.
Abby Wynne $17.95 • Paperback • 232 pages • 6.5x9.3 October 2021 • SEL045000 978-0-71-719208-3
Abby Wynne’s One Day at a Time Diary 2022 is both a practical diary that provides space to write down your appointments and to-do lists, and an inspirational workbook that is filled with uplifting affirmations and space to journal your thoughts and emotions. Drawing on information from astrologers, the diary will support you through the energy shifts of the coming year through monthly themes, exercises and affirmations. Take it one day at a time on your healing journey this year and you will be amazed at how your life will transform.
National Gallery of Ireland Diary 2022 Ireland
National Gallery of
$26.95 • Hardback • 120 pages • 7.5x8.7 October 2021 • SEL045000 978-0-71-719256-4
This beautifully illustrated diary contains some of the finest paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland’s permanent collection. Featuring 56 carefully reproduced paintings in a week-to-view format, this diary highlights some of the stunning Irish and European works on view in the Gallery. Following the format and style of the popular 2021 edition, the National Gallery of Ireland Diary 2022 promises to be the must-have desk diary of the year.
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