Day's Work Part 2

About this book

Bunting has a knack for spotting the unusual in a photograph or some minor detail that in fact tells a major story about the how and why. From granite quarry operations to an itinerant cobbler in a sailing scow to hootchie-kootchie dancers at the state fair to deepwater ships his page-long captions place these images in social and economic context--but this is not dry history. His research has uncovered a wealth of fascinating often quirky detail (did you know that mummy wrappings were imported from Egypt for Maine papermaking?) and he makes frequent forays into the Maine storytelling tradition.