D. Quincy Whitney

The Violinmaker’s Crescendo
Upcoming, 2011.

The Violinmaker’s Crescendo is the story of master luthier Carleen Hutchins who merged art with science to make a better fiddle and then shared her findings with the world, creating an international community devoted to violin acoustics. Hutchins also created a new palette of sound in her Violin Octet—a family of eight finely-matched violins extending tonally across the range of a piano.

Hidden History of New Hampshire
History Press, 2008.

Hidden in the cracks and crevices of the Granite State are the stories of pioneers who pursued their passions, creating legacies along the way. There is the tale of the mountain man who became an innkeeper; the “Bird Man” who took his passion to the White House; the gentleman who ascended the highest peak in the Northeast in a steam-powered locomobile; the story of one skier’s dramatic win at the 1939 “American Inferno” Mount Washington race; the Shaker Meetinghouse, framed in just one day, in complete silence; and the gallant efforts to save the Old Man of the Mountain. D. Quincy Whitney’s compilation of stories makes for a colorful narrative of some of New Hampshire’s most notable newsmakers and remarkable historic events.