"Once Upon Quoketaug"
The Biography of a Connecticut Farm Family, 1712-1960  By Rudy J. Favretti

This classic recounts the history of the Williamses, who farmed atop Quoketaug Hill in Stonington for nearly 250 years. The farm, the family, and its ways of life are affectionately recounted by Professor Favretti, who worked there as a teenager. He went on to become a distinguished professor of landscape architecture at the University of Connecticut. He chronicles the cycles of birth, living, and dying among the Williams family and the creatures they tended in a unique combination of intimate recollections and scholarship. This is the third in the Society's Ramsbotham Editions series, named in honor of Captain Robert J. Ramsbotham, longtime president of the Society.
Paperbound, $20 With postage & handling, $25.

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"Stonington Ice"
The Story of Sylvia & Vargas, 1874-1947 

By Joseph A. Vargas, III

The plainspoken history of an enterprise founded and carried on in Stonington, Connecticut, by two interrelated families from the Azores. First published in 1976, this new edition recalls in detail a vanished technology . With freshly enhanced photographs of oldtime ice harvests. Second in the Historical Society’s Ramsbotham Editions series, named in honor of Captain Robert J. Ramsbotham, longtime president of the Society.
Paperbound, $20 With postage & handling, $25.

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"The Stonington Tragedy"
Murder at Darling Hill by Judith G. duPont

A new, deeply researched account of an incident that shook Stonington society to its roots and gained region-wide notoriety, narrated by a writer who grew up near Darling Hill. It is the first in the Society's Ramsbotham Editions, a series named in honor of Captain Robert J. Ramsbotham, a long-time president of the Society.
Paperbound, $15 With postage & handling, $20.

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The Davis Homestead by John Lawrence Davis, second edition, 2007, edited by James Boylan and Betsy Wade, with new photographs and a new introduction by Boylan.

Fifty years on a Lower Pawcatuck farm, an account rich in anecdote and history: how to cook skunk, how to stop dogs from eating eggs, why the Davises call a salt marsh "the Continental." Completed before Davis's death in 1989, this book does not flinch at ugly realities on the farm, granted to his forbear Thomas Stanton in 1652. 256 pages, Hardcover, $25 With postage & handling, $30.

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An Hour's Walk Through the Borough of Stonington Revised and expanded edition.

Relive two centuries of village history. Paperbound, 20 pages, historical photos, fold-in map. $6. With postage & handling, $7.50 ($5 and $6.50 for members).

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The Battle of Stonington: Torpedoes, Submarines, and Rockets in the War of  1812 by James Tertius de Kay.

An exciting and definitive account of  the sea war off Connecticut, culminating in the attack by a British navy squadron on Stonington and the repelling of the attackers by local forces with two cannon. 216 pages. Paperbound, $15. With postage & handling, $20.

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Stonington Graveyards: A Guide and Map. Edited by Katherine Mason, Emily Harrison Lynch, and Barbara Merchant Sindall.

Describes 67 burial grounds with names of 12,000 buried there from 1649 to the mid-1930s, keyed to specific graveyards. 176 pages;  separate 15" x 16"  map. Paperbound, book and map, $15. With postage & handling, $19.

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Captain Nathaniel Brown Palmer: An Old-Time Sailor of the Sea by John R. Spears.

A richly detailed biography of the Stonington mariner who as a youth was the first American to see the Antarctic continent. Later he was a skipper, clipper designer, and an important figure in the China trade. Foreword by Norman F. Boas. 280 pages; illustrations. Paperbound, $16. With postage & handling, $20.

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The Discoveries of Antarctica within the American Sector, as Revealed by Maps and Documents. By William Herbert Hobbs

New edition of a treatise by a distinguished geographer thoroughly analyzing the exploration of Antarctica, with emphasis on the important role played by Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer of Stonington. Introduction by Norman F. Boas. 71 pages; illustrations. Paperbound, $20. With postage & handling, $24

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The Stonington Baptist Records, 1772-1848. Transcribed and edited by John V. Hinshaw.

A fascinating look at life in early Stonington. Lists church members circa 1790, 1826 and 1846 with many dates of birth, baptism, marriage and death. An important genealogical resource. 176 pages; index; paperbound, $15. With postage & handling, $19.

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Stonington During the American Revolution by Norman F. Boas.

Includes a list of 400 militiamen and civilians who served. Illustrated with war documents, prints and photos. 196 pages;  clothbound, $25. With postage & handling, $30.

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Colonel Jonathan Palmer's War Diary, Stonington, 1774-1775. Edited by Norman F. Boas.

A fascinating early account of the Revolution, including the British attack on Long Point. 36 pages; illustrated with photos of diary entries and documents; paperbound, $6. With postage & handling, $9.

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The Captain Nathaniel.B. Palmer House: A Home, a Family and an Era by Constance Colom.

A concise history of the Palmer home, now a National Historic Landmark owned by the Stonington Historical Society, 47 pages. Paperbound, $6. With postage & handling, $9.

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Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer and Nathaniel B. Palmer 2nd, a Poignant Story by Norman F. Boas.

Traces the relationship between the mariner and his nephew, who died in the same year. 25 pages, paperbound, $4. With postage & handling, $6..

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History of the Town of Stonington 1649 to 1900 with Genealogical Register by Richard Anson Wheeler.

Originally published in 1900, this is a useful tool for researchers. $88.00. With postage & handling, $95.00.

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Mystic in the 1950's: Growing Up in a Small Village by Tom Santos

Tom Santos' book recalls the simpler happier days before we worried aobut swine flu, terrorists and financial failures. It evokes the times when downtown merchants knew everybody's name, when pin boys worked happily in the Mystic Bowling Alleys on West Main Street, when Mooney's had the best selection of penny candy, and tantalizing aromas from Ella's Bakery on East Main Street wafted over the flagpole. As for excitement, there's a firsthand account of the disastrous 1960 fire which nostalgic reminiscence of this close knit community. $20.00 With postage & handling, $24.00.

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Stonington Chronology, 1649-1949, Being a Year-By-Year Record of the American Way of Life in a Connecticut Town by Williams Haynes.

$45.00. With postage & handling, $50.00.

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Old Homes in Stonington, with Additional Chapters and Graveyard Inscriptions by Grace Denison Wheeler.

Originally printed in 1903 and reprinted in 1930, this book gives insight into some of the town’s older homes and families. $42.00. With postage & handling, $47.00.

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A Planting of New England by John A. Miner.

A pamphlet dealing with English settlers during the second half of the 17th century. $3.50. With postage & handling, $4.50.

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