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Author : Madeleine C. Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Fire Island, 1650s-1980s written by Madeleine C. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1070 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Fire Island Inlet to Montauk Point, Long Island, Reach 1, New York, Fire Island Inlet to Moriches Inlet, Evaluation of an Interim Plan for Storm Damage Reduction written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bill Bleyer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439663483
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Fire Island Lighthouse written by Bill Bleyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Fire Island Lighthouse was constructed in 1826 after numerous shipwrecks along the barrier island. A replacement tower built in 1858 incorporated innovations in lighthouse design such as the Fresnel lens. Vessels anchored offshore, known as lightships, augmented the lighthouse for many years. The Coast Guard shut down the site in 1973. Through the efforts of the Fire Island Lighthouse Preservation Society and the National Park Service, the beautiful structure was meticulously restored and the tower relit in 1986. Along with a selection of wonderful color photographs depicting the grandeur of the lighthouse, author Bill Bleyer charts the history of Long Island's cherished Fire Island Lighthouse.
Author : Shoshanna McCollum
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738591335
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Fire Island written by Shoshanna McCollum and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fire Island is a string of communities and parks, gay and straight bars, boats and bridges, beach umbrellas and bungalows--all bound together by the pristine white sand of the island's beach. This 32-mile-long barrier island off the coast of Long Island has been defined by legendary shipwrecks and heroic lifesaving in the 19th century, but also kindled by menacing storms and a web of sociological intrigue as an upwardly mobile American middle class sought out vacation homes and coastal recreation during the 20th century. From cholera protests at the Surf Hotel in 1892 to a grassroots campaign to prevent a highway that ultimately established Fire Island National Seashore in 1964, Fire Island's history is a grand melodrama that has caught world attention.
Author : Lee E. Koppelman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791473429
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (734 download)
Download or read book The Fire Island National Seashore written by Lee E. Koppelman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2008-02-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the history of the Fire Island National Seashore since its creation in 1964.
Author : Jack Parlett
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0369720474
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Fire Island written by Jack Parlett and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A Town and Country Must-Read Book of Summer?* *A BUZZFEED BEST BOOK OF JUNE* *A Washington Post “Book to Read This Summer”* *AN ADVOCATE BEST LGBTQ+ BOOK OF 2022* *A USA Today "Book to Celebrate Pride Month"* *A New York Times "Editor's Pick"* *A Kirkus Reviews Hottest Book of Summer* A groundbreaking account of New York's Fire Island, chronicling its influence on art, literature, culture and queer liberation over the past century Fire Island, a thin strip of beach off the Long Island coast, has long been a vital space in the queer history of America. Both utopian and exclusionary, healing and destructive, the island is a locus of contradictions, all of which coalesce against a stunning ocean backdrop. Now, poet and scholar Jack Parlett tells the story of this iconic destination—its history, its meaning and its cultural significance—told through the lens of the artists and creators who sought refuge on its shores. Together, figures as divergent as Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, James Baldwin, Carson McCullers, Frank O'Hara, Patricia Highsmith and Jeremy O. Harris tell the story of a queer space in constant evolution. Transporting, impeccably researched and gorgeously written, Fire Island is the definitive book on an iconic American destination and an essential contribution to queer history.
Author : Jack Whitehouse
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440102023
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book 13 Legends of Fire Island written by Jack Whitehouse and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are stories about Fire Islands pirates, ghosts, shipwrecks and treasure chests of buried gold and silver. One tale relates the story of the possibility of the Viking discovery of Fire Island; another describes the torture of the islands slave trade prison. There is a story of unrequited love in the smoldering aftermath of an important Revolutionary War battle and another of German submarine saboteurs of World War II. If you like horror and suspense, history and mystery, or if you simply enjoy Fire Island and the Great South Bay and want to take home a piece of it home with you, then you will love this anthology. These stories will kindle your interest in visiting new beach locations and spur your imagination with thoughts of what was, and what might well have been. Even if you have never visited the area before, these tales of universal human experience are bound to fascinate. You are certain to want to share 13 Legends of Fire Island and the Great South Bay with friends, after you can put it down, that is.
Author : Esther Newton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822377217
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Cherry Grove, Fire Island written by Esther Newton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1993, the award-winning Cherry Grove, Fire Island tells the story of the extraordinary gay and lesbian resort community near New York City. This new paperback edition includes a new preface by the author.
Author : Christopher C. Verga
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439666431
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Saving Fire Island from Robert Moses written by Christopher C. Verga and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Small coastal communities stand up to the giant of mid-20th century urban development in this chronicle of a true David and Goliath drama. With its unspoiled, tranquil shorelines, Fire Island has been an oasis for vacationers for well over a century. But from the late 1930s into the early 1960s, it was an obsession for Robert Moses, the political power broker and "master builder" who reshaped much of New York. His urban development projects helped create Long Island’s suburbs, and he dreamed of turning Fire Island into an extension of Ocean Parkway. Standing up to those ambitions were the seventeen individualistic communities of Fire Island, unified in their love for their sun-washed sandy beaches. To maintain a traditional way of life with limited access to motor vehicles, the community began the fight for federal protection through the creation of the Fire Island National Seashore.
Author : Christopher C. Sellers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807835439
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Crabgrass Crucible written by Christopher C. Sellers and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late 19th c
Author : Jack Whitehouse
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439673810
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Islip Town written by Jack Whitehouse and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The patchwork of beach towns, villages and hamlets that make up Islip Town represents some of the most historic communities on the whole of Long Island. Local Secatogue Native Americans harrowingly saved the Dutch survivors of one of New York's first shipwrecks in 1657. New York City's infamous Tammany Hall leased an entire summer resort island in Islip Town for decades. In 1912, a young woman from Sayville sacrificed her own life for another on the RMS Titanic. Islip Town's founding father, William Nicoll, owned the largest parcel on Long Island's South Shore but was blocked from owning even a grain of sand on Fire Island. A penniless Dutch immigrant to Islip Town became the world's "Oyster King." Join author and historian Jack Whitehouse as he reveals buried stories from Islip Town's past.
Author : Rutherford H. Platt
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610912632
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Disasters and Democracy written by Rutherford H. Platt and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the number of presidential declarations of “major disasters” has skyrocketed. Such declarations make stricken areas eligible for federal emergency relief funds that greatly reduce their costs. But is federalizing the costs of disasters helping to lighten the overall burden of disasters or is it making matters worse? Does it remove incentives for individuals and local communities to take measures to protect themselves? Are people more likely to invest in property in hazardous locations in the belief that, if worse comes to worst, the federal government will bail them out? Disasters and Democracy addresses the political response to natural disasters, focusing specifically on the changing role of the federal government from distant observer to immediate responder and principal financier of disaster costs.
Author : James Moffett
Publisher : Boynton/Cook
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Active Voices IV written by James Moffett and published by Boynton/Cook. This book was released on 1986 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of writings by students, all based on the assignment sequences in James Moffett's Active Voice provides a powerful composing/literature program.
Author : Cornelia Dean
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500111
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Against the Tide written by Cornelia Dean and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1999-05-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans love to colonize their beaches. But when storms threaten, high-ticket beachfront construction invariably takes precedence over coastal environmental concerns—we rescue the buildings, not the beaches. As Cornelia Dean explains in Against the Tide, this pattern is leading to the rapid destruction of our coast. But her eloquent account also offers sound advice for salvaging the stretches of pristine American shore that remain. The story begins with the tale of the devastating hurricane that struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900—the deadliest natural disaster in American history, which killed some six thousand people. Misguided residents constructed a wall to prevent another tragedy, but the barrier ruined the beach and ultimately destroyed the town's booming resort business. From harrowing accounts of natural disasters to lucid ecological explanations of natural coastal processes, from reports of human interference and construction on the shore to clear-eyed elucidation of public policy and conservation interests, this book illustrates in rich detail the conflicting interests, short-term responses, and long-range imperatives that have been the hallmarks of America's love affair with her coast. Intriguing observations about America's beaches, past and present, include discussions of Hurricane Andrew's assault on the Gulf Coast, the 1962 northeaster that ravaged one thousand miles of the Atlantic shore, the beleaguered beaches of New Jersey and North Carolina's rapidly vanishing Outer Banks, and the sand-starved coast of southern California. Dean provides dozens of examples of human attempts to tame the ocean—as well as a wealth of lucid descriptions of the ocean's counterattack. Readers will appreciate Against the Tide's painless course in coastal processes and new perspective on the beach.
Author : Manville George Fenn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435342965
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Fire Island written by Manville George Fenn and published by . This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon J Bronner
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317471946
Total Pages : 4164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Folklife written by Simon J Bronner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 4164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American folklife is steeped in world cultures, or invented as new culture, always evolving, yet often practiced as it was created many years or even centuries ago. This fascinating encyclopedia explores the rich and varied cultural traditions of folklife in America - from barn raisings to the Internet, tattoos, and Zydeco - through expressions that include ritual, custom, crafts, architecture, food, clothing, and art. Featuring more than 350 A-Z entries, "Encyclopedia of American Folklife" is wide-ranging and inclusive. Entries cover major cities and urban centers; new and established immigrant groups as well as native Americans; American territories, such as Guam and Samoa; major issues, such as education and intellectual property; and expressions of material culture, such as homes, dress, food, and crafts. This encyclopedia covers notable folklife areas as well as general regional categories. It addresses religious groups (reflecting diversity within groups such as the Amish and the Jews), age groups (both old age and youth gangs), and contemporary folk groups (skateboarders and psychobillies) - placing all of them in the vivid tapestry of folklife in America. In addition, this resource offers useful insights on folklife concepts through entries such as "community and group" and "tradition and culture." The set also features complete indexes in each volume, as well as a bibliography for further research.
Author : B. Hirschfeld
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (863 download)
Download or read book Fire Island written by B. Hirschfeld and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
