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The illustrious hundred-year history of one of New England's most prominent Catholic secondary schools comes to life in Far Above the Neighboring Hilltops, celebrating the founding of St. John's Preparatory School in Danvers, Massachusetts in 1907. With 225 images from the school's archives, this will be a "must read" for the nearly ten thousand living graduates of St. John's (80 percent of whom live in New England, many of them north of Boston), as well as countless thousands of others who share a proud connection to "The Prep" as students, athletes, parents, grandparents, faculty, staff, and friends. Far Above the Neighboring Hilltops is a fascinating look at the Prep's history, including the Xaverian Brothers who founded the school, its fifteen headmasters, legendary sports teams, and remarkable growth from one building and sixty students, to a classic New England campus with eight buildings, twelve hundred students (from ninety cities and towns north and west of Boston), and an impressive record of achievement in academics, arts, athletics, and Christian service.
“A rare, honest, beautiful, and, yes, sometimes heartbreaking examination of the echoes of water-powered natural gas drilling—or fracking—in the human community . . . vivid, personal and emotional.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune Susquehanna County, in the remote northeastern corner of Pennsylvania, is a community of stoic, low-income dairy farmers and homesteaders seeking haven from suburban sprawl—and the site of the Marcellus Shale, a natural gas deposit worth more than one trillion dollars. In The End of Country, journalist and area native Seamus McGraw opens a window on the battle for control of this land, revealing a conflict that pits petrodollar billionaires and the forces of corporate America against a band of locals determined to extract their fair share of the windfall—but not at the cost of their values or their way of life. Rich with a sense of place and populated by unforgettable personalities, McGraw tells a tale of greed, hubris, and envy, but also of hope, family, and the land that binds them all together. “To tell a great story, you need a great story. Seamus McGraw . . . has lived a great story. . . . [He] is just one of its many characters—very real characters—caught up in a very human story in which they must make tough, life-altering decisions for themselves, their community, and ultimately their country.”—Allentown Morning Call “Compelling . . . The End of Country is like a phone call from a close friend or relative living smack-dab in the middle of the Pennsylvania gas rush. . . . Anyone with even a passing interest in the [fracking debate should] read it.”—Harrisburg Patriot-News “This cautionary tale should be required reading for all those tempted by the calling cards of easy money and precarious peace of mind.”—Tom Brokaw “A page-turner . . . McGraw brings us to the front lines of the U.S. energy revolution to deliver an honest and humbling account that could hardly possess greater relevance.”—The Humanist