Blue Hill Observatory Online Store

Welcome to our on-line store. Here you will find items we sell in our
gift shop atop Great Blue Hill that you can now purchase on-line.


To order any of these items by mail or phone, please use our order form or,
order some items online by clicking the 'PayPal Order' link next to the item.



Books - Clothing - Instruments - Kites - Membership/Donations


Books, Prints, and Posters

(Click on cover thumbnails for a larger view.)


The 1938 Hurricane: An Historical and Pictorial Summary
by William E. Minsinger

$19.95 + $4.00 S&H (softcover book)       PayPal Order

A 128 page book detailing the destruction from the remarkable storm. Over 150 photographs - some never before published - are included.



Hurricane Bob, August 16 - 20, 1991: A Brief History
by William E. Minsinger and Charles T. Orloff

$10.00 + $2.50 S&H (softcover book)       PayPal Order

80 pages, 60 photographs, published to mark the 1st anniversary of the storm. All the final data on rainfall, wind tides, etc. Photographs and town by town summary of damage.



The Great Atlantic Hurricane, September 8-16, 1944: An Historical and Pictorial Summary
by William E. Minsinger and Charles T. Orloff

$10.00 + $2.50 S&H (softcover book)       PayPal Order

64 pages with summary of storm from North Carolina to Canada with many photographs.



The 1927 Flood in Vermont and New England, November 3-7, 1927: An Historical and Pictorial Summary
by William E. Minsinger

$19.95 + $4.00 S&H (softcover book)       PayPal Order

112 pages with 200 photgraphs and diagrams with descriptions of the impact throughout New England of this historic flooding event.



Carol at 50: Remembering Her Fury
by Charles T. Orloff

$19.95 + $4.00 S&H (softcover book)       PayPal Order

104 pages of photographs, diagrams and text describing the dramatic impact of Hurricane Carol on southern New England in 1954.



The 1955 Floods Hurricanes Connie and Diane, August 17-19, 1955: An Historical and Pictorial Summary
by William E. Minsinger

$19.95 + $4.00 S&H (softcover book)       PayPal Order

112 pages with over 120 photgraphs and diagrams with detailed descriptions of the most significant flooding event in Southern New England in the 20th Century.



Northeast Snowstorms
Volume I: Overview, Volume II: The Cases

by Paul J. Kocin and Louis W. Uccellini

$95.00 + $10 S&H (hardcover books)       PayPal Order

This two-volume second edition is the most comprehensive analysis ever compiled of largest snowstorms of the past century over the Northeastern United States.



The Worcester Tornado, June 9, 1953
by William F. Chittick

$7.95 + $2.00 S&H (softcover book)       PayPal Order

20 pages of text, maps and rare archival photos, including all seven funnel photographs of the epic EF4-5 Worcester Tornado that killed 94 people in one of history's saddest weather tragedies.



The Mill River Disaster, May 16, 1874
by George H. Wood

$4.00 + $1.00 S&H (pamphlet)

18 pages, (1991), Blue Hill Observatory Bulletin reprint of original 1874 article on one of the worst flooding events to strike New England in western Massachusetts.



The Lawrence Tornado of July 26, 1890
by Henry Helm Clayton

$4.00 + $1.00 S&H (pamphlet)

14 pages, (1990), Blue Hill Observatory Bulletin reprint of original 1892 article describing the effects of one of the largest tornadoes ever to impact New England.



Hurricane Bob, 10th Anniversary
by William E. Minsinger

$4.00 + $1.00 S&H (pamphlet)

18 pages, (2001), Blue Hill Observatory Bulletin article describing the aftermath of Hurricane Bob on the 10th anniversary of its landfall.



Climatology of Tropical Cyclones in New England, 1851-2001
by Michael J. Iacono

$4.00 + $1.00 S&H (pamphlet)

12 pages, (2001), Blue Hill Observatory Bulletin article describing the climatology of tropical cyclones in the Northeast since 1851 and their impact at the Observatory.





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(Last updated 5 July 2008)