Up from the Sea 
By Esther Lewis Crowell 
Born in 1896, Esther Lewis Crowell, this book records the childhood of a girl in the days when telephones and electricity were exciting new inventions; when windships still sailed from the port of Yarmouth; when a little girl could buy a fistful of candy for a penny; when school slates turned to college books and the responsibilities of adulthood; when the romance of the military became the carnage of World War I, and when childhood friendship turned to love and marriage.