The Tracy Log Book
A month in Summer - 1855. Charles Tracy's Journal with Original Sketches and Drawings by Frederic Edwin Church
- An intimate look at a month in the life of 27 well-to-do visitors – and a piano – on a visit to the faraway Mount Desert Island, Maine, in the summer of 1855
- Includes a rarely seen series of 19 humorous sketches by the Hudson River artist, Frederic Church
- An earlier black & white edition from 1997 sold continuously on the Island – and elsewhere – until stocks were depleted. This new edition includes additional images, many in color, and a specially created map depicting the points of interest visited by the group
The Tracy diary offers us the unique opportunity to accompany 27 nineteenth century travelers on an adventure of a lifetime, exploring Mount Desert Island, Maine, in August of 1855. This first group of summer visitors was a distinguished company and hailed primarily from New York, Hartford and Boston.
In addition to Charles Tracy, a prominent New York lawyer, whose descendants through his son, Charles, daughter, Francis, and son-in-law, J. Pierpont Morgan, continue to summer on the island. The traveling party also included Frederic Edwin Church, a leading Hudson River School artist, and his friend, Theodore Winthrop, who died gallantly in the opening battle of the Civil War and then became posthumously famous as a novelist.
After more than 170 years, Church’s playful sketches have been reunited with the first-hand account penned by Tracy, whose words strike a familiar chord in the memory of all who return again and again to the beauty and variety of Mount Desert Island.
- Publisher
- Officina Libraria
- ISBN
- 9788833674001
- Publish date
- 15th Sep 2026
- Binding
- Hardback
- Territory
- USA & Canada
- Size
- 8.5 in x 9.76 in
- Pages
- 192 Pages
- Illustrations
- 60 color, 20 b&w
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