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Author : Elise A. Guyette
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 158465760X
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Discovering Black Vermont written by Elise A. Guyette and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for an African American community in rural Vermont
Author : Bonnie T. Clause
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1611683297
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)
Download or read book Edward Hopper in Vermont written by Bonnie T. Clause and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful account of Edward Hopper's sojourns in Vermont with his wife, Jo, illustrated by the watercolors and drawings that he made there
Author : Harvey Amani Whitfield
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934720625
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Slavery in Early Vermont, 1777-1810 written by Harvey Amani Whitfield and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jane C. Beck
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252097289
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Daisy Turner's Kin written by Jane C. Beck and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A daughter of freed African American slaves, Daisy Turner became a living repository of history. The family narrative entrusted to her--"a well-polished artifact, an heirloom that had been carefully preserved"--began among the Yoruba in West Africa and continued with her own century and more of life. In 1983, folklorist Jane Beck began a series of interviews with Turner, then one hundred years old and still relating four generations of oral history. Beck uses Turner's storytelling to build the Turner family saga, using at its foundation the oft-repeated touchstone stories at the heart of their experiences: the abduction into slavery of Turner's African ancestors; Daisy's father Alec Turner learning to read; his return as a soldier to his former plantation to kill his former overseer; and Daisy's childhood stand against racism. Other stories re-create enslavement and her father's life in Vermont--in short, the range of life events large and small, transmitted by means so alive as to include voice inflections. Beck, at the same time, weaves in historical research and offers a folklorist's perspective on oral history and the hazards--and uses--of memory. Publication of this book is supported by grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the L. J. and Mary C. Skaggs Folklore Fund.
Author : Sara Rath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934720663
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Seven Years of Grace written by Sara Rath and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-researched historical novel about Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), a Vermont woman and itinerant medium who gave popular lectures on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform.
Author : Ted Murin
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584651888
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Birdwatching in Vermont written by Ted Murin and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive how-to guide to watching and enjoying birds in Vermont including a special section for beginners
Author : Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061950408
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Mr. and Mrs. Prince written by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy Terry was a devoted wife and mother, and the first known African-American poet. Abijah Prince, her husband, was a veteran of the French and Indian Wars and an entrepreneur. Together they pursued what would become the cornerstone of the American dream — having a family and owning property where they could live, grow, and prosper. When bigoted neighbors tried to run them off their own property, they asserted their rights, as they would do many times, in court. Merging comprehensive research and grand storytelling, Mr. and Mrs. Prince reveals the true story of a remarkable pre-Civil War African-American family, as well as the challenges that faced African-Americans who lived in the North. Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina is the author and editor of several books, including Carrington, Black London (a New York Times notable book), Black Victorians/Black Victoriana, and Frances Hodgson Burnett. She is the Kathe Tappe Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, where she is the first African-American woman to chair an Ivy League English Department. She has won grants from Fulbright and the National Endowment for Humanities and hosts “The Book Show,” a nationally syndicated weekly radio program that airs on ninety stations across the country. “Compelling ... History and mystery mix in this tale to make Mr. and Mrs. Prince as absorbing as it surprising and informative.” — Christian Science Monitor
Author : Paul M. Searls
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934720700
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Repeopling Vermont written by Paul M. Searls and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Repeopling Vermont: The Paradox of Development in the Twentieth Century, by historian Paul Searls, traces two distinct but interrelated stories to illuminate the fundamental contradictions and ironies that defined Vermont in the twentieth century. One is the story of a group of Swedish immigrants who settled in and around Landgrove in the 1890s and their descendants. The other is the story of Samuel R. Ogden, who beginning in 1929 purchased most of the buildings in the main village of Landgrove and set out to revitalize the town. Ogden succeeded in that project and subsequently became an important public servant to Vermont; he was instrumental in the growth of the ski industry, and was a founder of both Vermont Life magazine and the Vermont Natural Resources Council. These intertwined stories reveal the central paradox of Vermont in the twentieth century. The state's leaders simultaneously saw Vermont's overwhelmingly rural character as both a distressing problem in need of a solution, and the state's greatest asset. But their efforts to preserve Vermont's precious rural heritage, it's human and physical landscapes, while at the same time improving the state, also put that same way of life in peril. Those developments continue to reverberate throughout Vermont in the twenty-first century, shaping the experience of everyone who lives in or visits the Green Mountain State today"--
Author : Christopher S. Wren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416589562
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Walking to Vermont written by Christopher S. Wren and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinguished former foreign correspondent embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles, and explores a side of America nearly as exotic as the locales from which he once filed. Traveling with an unwieldy pack and a keen curiosity, Christopher Wren bids farewell to the New York Times newsroom in midtown Manhattan and saunters up Broadway, through Harlem, the Bronx, and the affluent New York suburbs of Westchester and Putnam Counties. As his trek takes him into the Housatonic River Valley of Connecticut, the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the Green Mountains of Vermont, and along a bucolic riverbank in New Hampshire, the strenuous challenges become as much emotional as physical. Wren loses his way in a suburban thicket of million-dollar mansions, dodges speeding motorists, seeks serenity at a convent, shivers through a rainy night among Shaker ruins, camps in a stranger's backyard, panhandles cookies and water from a good samaritan, absorbs the lore of the Appalachian and Long Trails, sweats up and down mountains, and lands in a hospital emergency room. Struggling under the weight of a fifty-pound pack, he gripes, "We might grow less addicted to stuff if everything we bought had to be carried on our backs." He hangs out with fellow wanderers named Old Rabbit, Flash, Gatorman, Stray Dog, and Buzzard, and learns gratitude from the anonymous charity of trail angels. His rite of passage into retirement, with its heat and dust and blisters galore, evokes vivid reminiscences of earlier risks taken, sometimes at gunpoint, during his years spent reporting from Russia, China, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. He loses track of time, waking with the sun, stopping to eat when hunger gnaws, and camping under starry skies that transform the nights of solitude. For all the self-inflicted hardship, he reports, "In fact, I felt pretty good." Wren has woven an intensely personal story that is candid and often downright hilarious. As Vermont turns from a destination into a state of mind, he concludes, "I had stumbled upon the secret of how utterly irrelevant chronological age is." This book, from the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Cat Who Covered the World, will delight not just hikers, walkers, and other lovers of the outdoors, but also anyone who contemplates retirement, wonders about foreign correspondents, or relishes a lively, off-beat adventure, even when it unfolds close to home.
Author : Adam Gamble
Publisher : Good Night books
ISBN 13 : 1649070276
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Count to Sleep Vermont written by Adam Gamble and published by Good Night books. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little counters will squeal with delight as they count their way through the great state of Vermont, discovering famous attractions and historic landmarks including sugar shacks, snowboarding, Lake Champlain, dairy farms, wildlife, fishing, hiking and camping, rock climbing, country stores, mountain biking, and more. This book is part of the bestselling Good Night Our World series, which includes hundreds of titles exploring iconic locations and exciting, child-friendly themes. From Maple trees to dairy farms, young children will cheer as they count their way around the state of Vermont.
Author : Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466871822
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Claiming Kin written by Afi-Odelia E. Scruggs and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A touching story of a woman's search for her family roots in the wake of the sudden death of her father. Claiming Kin is a powerful and compelling story about a woman's quest to search out her roots upon the death of the father she barely knew. A former journalist hungry for the truth, her search into the past leads her from her hometown in Nashville, Tennessee, back to the birthplace of the Scruggs in nearby Williamson County. There she traces the family back to 1847 and the Scruggs Farm where her ancestors were once slaves. Her journey soon becomes spiritual and emotional, forcing her not only to examine her own beliefs in the importance of family, but also her religious beliefs as she turns toward honoring her ancestors. This is a tale that will capture the heart and mind.
Author : Michael Harriot
Publisher : Dey Street Books
ISBN 13 : 9780063390720
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Black AF History written by Michael Harriot and published by Dey Street Books. This book was released on 2025-09-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AMAZON'S TOP 20 HISTORY BOOKS OF 2023 * B&N BEST OF EDUCATIONAL HISTORY * THE ROOT'S BEST BOOKS OF 2023 * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023 From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story. It should come as no surprise that the dominant narrative of American history is blighted with errors and oversights--after all, history books were written by white men with their perspectives at the forefront. It could even be said that the devaluation and erasure of the Black experience is as American as apple pie. In Black AF History, Michael Harriot presents a more accurate version of American history. Combining unapologetically provocative storytelling with meticulous research based on primary sources as well as the work of pioneering Black historians, scholars, and journalists, Harriot removes the white sugarcoating from the American story, placing Black people squarely at the center. With incisive wit, Harriot speaks hilarious truth to oppressive power, subverting conventional historical narratives with little-known stories about the experiences of Black Americans. From the African Americans who arrived before 1619 to the unenslavable bandit who inspired America's first police force, this long overdue corrective provides a revealing look into our past that is as urgent as it is necessary. For too long, we have refused to acknowledge that American history is white history. Not this one. This history is Black AF.
Author : Wendy Clinch
Publisher : Unmediated Ink
ISBN 13 : 9780615877921
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Double Black written by Wendy Clinch and published by Unmediated Ink. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In DOUBLE BLACK, Boston's twenty-something Stacey Curtis ditches her cheating fiance and heads for a Vermont ski town. She's looking for the life she's always dreamed about, but she stumbles instead into financial intrigue, bitter family warfare, and murder. Populated with quirky characters, loaded with New England atmosphere, and starring a young woman with nerve, spunk and a sense of humor about it all, DOUBLE BLACK is an exciting run down some treacherous mountain trails.
Author : Michael William Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934720755
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Print Town written by Michael William Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Print Town is a product of the Brattleboro Words Project: a community-driven, collaborative effort to showcase the unique richness and diversity of the people and places; the land and water; and the history of words that, for centuries, have made this region a home for storytellers, writers, scholars, printers, and publishers. brattleborowords.org"--
Author : Paul S. Gillies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780934720687
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (26 download)
Download or read book The Law of the Hills written by Paul S. Gillies and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Medearis
Publisher : august house
ISBN 13 : 9780916718237
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (182 download)
Download or read book Daisy and the Doll written by Michael Medearis and published by august house. This book was released on 2005-01-05 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy, an eight-year-old black girl living in rural Vermont in the 1890s, is given a black doll by her teacher and becomes uncomfortable that her skin is a different color from that of her classmates, until she finds the courage to speak from her heart.
Author : Elise A. Guyette
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584659084
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Discovering Black Vermont written by Elise A. Guyette and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2010-07-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for an African American community in rural Vermont
