Obviously, this is the last and latest word for windmill enthusiasts, wherever located.
-- Library Journal

An excellent book…Belongs on every mill enthusiast's coffee table… Readers will be entranced.
-- Old Mill News , American Society for the Preservation of Old Mills

[An] exhaustive history and inventory of New England's windmills, with an index and appendices enough to satisfy even the most wind-obsessed. But the romance is here too…
-- The Providence Journal

Lombardo recreates the fascinating history and exciting future of the windmills in New England with more than 160 photographs and vintage postcards narrated with a fun approach and scholarly truths. He takes his readers along on a journey through time of the powerful, poetic and literary uses of windmills, their imagery in film, their impact on language, their place in popular culture, as well as the ongoing debate of proposed wind farms in Cape Cod's Nantucket Sound.
-- Cape Cod Magazine

Lombardo's book gives “grist for one's mill.” It is at once a history, a dissection and a travel guide, but most of all Daniel Lombardo's new coffee-table book is a loving tribute.
-- The Banner

A handsome new book… It's a captivating history of the revolutionary development of wind power.
-- The Cape Cod Voice

Lombardo has much to contribute these days about windmills. But after decades as a librarian, historian, researcher and writer, he has even more to say about history's power to transport a reader away from the confines of his or her own day.
-- Daily Hampshire Gazette

There is a little bit of everything in this coffee-table-size book, which is part travelogue, part history text and part literary compilation.
-- The Cape Cod Times

Windmills of New England is a treasure of information.
-- The Barnstable Patriot

Author Daniel Lombardo has taken all of these images and, through extensive research, sweetened by his love of the subject, fleshed out the story of these magnificent machines.
-- The Chronicle

Daniel Lombardo offers a complete history of these mostly bygone symbols of early American industry. The author devoted countless hours and travels to his research [of this] large, handsome book.
--The Newport Daily News

Daniel Lombardo served for 17 years as Curator of the Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost Collections at the Jones Library in Amherst , Massachusetts . He is the author of six books. His discovery of an Emily Dickinson forgery and his exposure of its notorious forger and murderer are described in Simon Worrall's The Poet and the Murderer: A True Story of Literary Crime and the Art of Forgery , and are the subject of a BBC documentary film.

The Cape Cod Voice
October 23 - November 5, 2003

Windmills of New England:
Their Genius, Madness, History & Future
by Dan Lombardo

“Three Sheets to the Wind.”

Ever been three sheets to the wind?
Been put through the mill? Shown your metal? Taken your turn? Hey, who hasn’t? But did you know all these expressions have their origin in the world of the windmill? When the old windmills only had three of the four arms set with sails they became tipsy and wobbled like a drunk.

A handsome new book, “Windmills of New England: Their Genius, Madness, History and Future” by Dan Lombardo, contextualizes wind energy controversies with history of wind power in our own region. It’s a captivating history of the revolutionary development of wind power, yesterday and today, including where, when and why windmills have been built.

The book includes 160-plus contemporary and vintage photographs and illustrations of windmills and wind farms, with easy to understand explanations of how windmills and wind turbines work, and a fascinating consideration of the windmill archetype and its use in literature and film.

“ Windmills of New England” is now available in bookstores. It is published by On Cape Publications. For information call 877-662-5839.