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.