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Book Synopsis Kansas City's Fairmount Park by : John Olinskey, III
Download or read book Kansas City's Fairmount Park written by John Olinskey, III and published by Vintage Antique Classics. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides history of Kansas City's parks, especially the amusement parks, from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Book Synopsis City in a Park by : James McClelland
Download or read book City in a Park written by James McClelland and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairmount Park is the municipal park system of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It consists of more than one hundred parks, squares, and green spaces totaling about 11,000 acres, and is one of the largest landscaped urban park systems in the world. In City in a Park, James McClelland and Lynn Miller provide an affectionate and comprehensive history of this 200-year-old network of parks. Originated in the nineteenth century as a civic effort to provide a clean water supply to Philadelphia, Fairmount Park also furnished public pleasure grounds for boat races and hiking, among other activities. Millions travel to the city to view its eighteenth-century villas, attend boat races on the Schuylkill River, hike the Wissahickon Creek, visit the Philadelphia Zoo, hear concerts in summer, stroll the city’s historic squares and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, and enjoy its enormous collection of public art. Green initiatives flower today; Philadelphia lives amidst its parks. Filled with nearly 150 gorgeous full-color photographs, City in a Park chronicles the continuing efforts to create what founder William Penn desired: a “greene countrie town.”
Download or read book Fairmount Park written by Charles Keyser and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis Philadelphia's Fairmount Park by : James D. Ristine
Download or read book Philadelphia's Fairmount Park written by James D. Ristine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-06-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia's Fairmount Park focuses on the more than four thousand acres of land along the east and west banks of the Schuylkill River and into parts of the Wissahickon Valley that comprise one of the world's largest urban parks. Historically and architecturally important structures and buildings are chronicled, such as the famous waterworks, the many bridges that span the park's waterways, the Zoological Gardens, and Boathouse Row. Numerous fountains, monuments, and artistic sculptures that dot the landscape are also documented. Rich in natural beauty, the park's meadows, gardens, lush vegetation, rugged ravines, and wooded areas will capture the eye. Philadelphia's Fairmount Park is a nostalgic view of the park as it was enjoyed by visitors during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The Wolves of Fairmount Park by : Dennis Tafoya
Download or read book The Wolves of Fairmount Park written by Dennis Tafoya and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wolves of Fairmount Park, Dennis Tafoya's lyrical, intense, sometimes tragic and sometimes hopeful second novel, the details of a drive-by shooting of two teenagers in a rough Philadelphia neighborhood are filled in from four perspectives: Brendan Donovan, a cop and the father of the boy shot and left comatose; George Parkman Sr., another father, this one of the boy who was killed; Danny Martinez, a cop whose job it is to investigate the killing; and Orlando Donovan, the junkie uncle of the cop's kid, who happens to live nearby. No one knows what the two boys were doing in front of a dope house on Roxborough Avenue in the middle of the night, what business they might have had with gangs like Green Lane or the Tres Nortes. Even though they had a thousand dollars with them, they were good boys. Everyone says, "They were good boys." Through the fast-paced interweaving of these four distinct voices, Dennis Tafoya, author of the acclaimed Dope Thief, tells the moving story of two kids in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the lengths that the people around them will go to find the truth.
Book Synopsis Fairmount Park Art Association by : Anonymous
Download or read book Fairmount Park Art Association written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Book Synopsis The Fairmount Park Motor Races, 1908-1911 by : Michael J. Seneca
Download or read book The Fairmount Park Motor Races, 1908-1911 written by Michael J. Seneca and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four years, early in the last century, the Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park. They drew half a million spectators the first year, but surprisingly they have been overlooked as part of automobile racing history and as part of the history of Philadelphia. In contrast to other racing events, such as the Vanderbilt Cup, there were never any serious injuries and not a single death, but after four years of spectacular racing, the event was banned, with safety concerns cited. Opening with a brief look at automobile racing prior to 1908, the book covers the events leading up to the first race. It discusses the proposal to have a race in Fairmount Park and the reasons why Philadelphia, and the park in particular, was such an unlikely place. Both the on-track action of the races and the off-track events that affected them are described. Dr. J. William White's successful crusade, following the 1911 outing, to stop the races is examined, as are attempts to revive the race in the following six years, including Philadelphia's attempt to compete with Indianapolis by constructing a two-mile oval speedway, and the city's eventual exit from automobile racing.
Book Synopsis Dead in Fairmount Park by : Maria T. Watson
Download or read book Dead in Fairmount Park written by Maria T. Watson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia by : Charles S. Keyser
Download or read book Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia written by Charles S. Keyser and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Book Synopsis Fairmount Park by : Charles Shearer Keyser
Download or read book Fairmount Park written by Charles Shearer Keyser and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Philadelphia's Fairmount Park by : James D. Ristine
Download or read book Philadelphia's Fairmount Park written by James D. Ristine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia's Fairmount Park focuses on the more than four thousand acres of land along the east and west banks of the Schuylkill River and into parts of the Wissahickon Valley that comprise one of the world's largest urban parks. Historically and architecturally important structures and buildings are chronicled, such as the famous waterworks, the many bridges that span the park's waterways, the Zoological Gardens, and Boathouse Row. Numerous fountains, monuments, and artistic sculptures that dot the landscape are also documented. Rich in natural beauty, the park's meadows, gardens, lush vegetation, rugged ravines, and wooded areas will capture the eye. Philadelphia's Fairmount Park is a nostalgic view of the park as it was enjoyed by visitors during the first quarter of the twentieth century.
Download or read book Fairmount Park written by Charles Keyser and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Book Synopsis Fairmount, Philadelphia's Park by : Theophilus Ballou White
Download or read book Fairmount, Philadelphia's Park written by Theophilus Ballou White and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fairmount Park Trolley by : Harold E. Cox
Download or read book The Fairmount Park Trolley written by Harold E. Cox and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Legend of the First Super Speedway by : Mark Dill
Download or read book The Legend of the First Super Speedway written by Mark Dill and published by BookBaby. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Legend of the First Super Speedway," is a gritty tale punctuated by humor that chronicles the hero's journey through the pioneering age of American auto racing. It is a factual, previously untold story that must be read for a thorough understanding of auto racing history.
Book Synopsis Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia by : Charles Shearer Keyser
Download or read book Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia written by Charles Shearer Keyser and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Fairmount Parkway by : Fairmount Park Art Association
Download or read book The Fairmount Parkway written by Fairmount Park Art Association and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
