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Book Synopsis Carved in Stone by : David B. Freeman
Download or read book Carved in Stone written by David B. Freeman and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Referred to by some as The Eighth Wonder of the World, Stone Mountain, located 16 miles from Atlanta, Georgia, is the largest exposed mass of granite in the world. Freeman, a freelance historian, narrates the development of the mountain from the days that it served as a Native American domain, through the carving of an historic Confederate monument, to its present status as a tourist attraction and recreational area. Enhanced with bandw photographs. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Atlanta's Stone Mountain by : Paul Stephen Hudson
Download or read book Atlanta's Stone Mountain written by Paul Stephen Hudson and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breathtaking geological wonder known as Stone Mountain has enchanted people since the age of the Paleo-Indians. Today, Stone Mountain Park annually attracts four million visitors from around the world. Hiking trails showcase rugged granite outcrops with hardy mountain plants, such as endearing yellow daisies. Majestic red-tailed hawks soar overhead. A storied past comes to life through an engaging park quarry exhibit, a historic railroad experience and an epic Confederate Memorial carving envisioned by Gutzon Borglum of Mount Rushmore fame. Writing during the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, authors Paul Hudson and Lora Mirza of Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta present with verve this illustrated multicultural history of a legendary landmark.
Book Synopsis The Man Who Carved Stone Mountain by : Donna F. Barron
Download or read book The Man Who Carved Stone Mountain written by Donna F. Barron and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2015-08-27 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A country boy born in a small town named Porterdale just southeast of Atlanta became a man with a purpose. How does someone rise up from barely completing high school take on such a monumental task such as etching out three historical figures from the Civil War. I tell you how...a man that went above and beyond the vision that God gave him to work day and night and sometimes seven days a week until the job was finished.. My dad is a man who has been dedicated to everything he has come in contact with ...from helping his mother around the house as well enlisting into the Marine Corp to help provide financial support and then soon marrying my mom to start his own family. He knew that day on Jefferson Street when he was playing football and the ball struck my mom's ankle that she would one day be his wife and the mother of his children. Daddy loved the ocean so much that once a year in August he would take us on a family vacation to Daytona Beach and other trips he would go to Panama City to enjoy one of his favorite past times which was deep-sea fishing. He was so determined that he would never leave his boat until he was satified with his catch. A young man with many jobs starting out as a newspaper boy and moving onto a position as a welder never dreamed that one day he would be hired as the man to erect an outside 400-foot elevator that would ascend up the side of Stone Mountain. This man who fell in love with the mountain and became the Chief Carver of the Confederate Memorial is the same simple man that never took an art lesson in his life and believed that he had a purpose which soon became a historical monument that we all have come to love and enjoy."
Book Synopsis Georgia's Stone Mountain by : Willard Neal
Download or read book Georgia's Stone Mountain written by Willard Neal and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every traveler, on first viewing Stone Mountain, has stood in awe at the foot of the looming monolith. Seasoned tourists and Georgia school children are affected just as pioneer explorers were. The towering rock is so impressive that each individual feels he is making a great discovery. Questions arise. How did Stone Mountain come to be? How old is it, and how high? Exactly how large is this biggest carving in the world. How was it done? Who did it? Who first saw Stone Mountain? What effects has it had on the development of our country? Thus, this book. It is dedicated to those who care enough to see and study the wonders of their country, and who, in their travels, have had the unexplainable and unexpected thrill of discovering Stone Mountain.
Download or read book Full Attraction written by and published by . This book was released on 2017-05 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 13×11 inches, 33×28 cm. Printed on 140 lbs ProLine Pearl photo paper by Mohawk. 26 images. Limited to 15 copies. Hand numbered and signed by artist A K Nicholas. Black linen hardcover with laminated photo dust jacket. Durable library binding. Heavyweight end sheets.
Book Synopsis Baptized in Blood by : Charles Reagan Wilson
Download or read book Baptized in Blood written by Charles Reagan Wilson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Reagan Wilson documents that for over half a century there existed not one, but two civil religions in the United States, the second not dedicated to honoring the American nation. Extensively researched in primary sources, Baptized in Blood is a significant and well-written study of the South’s civil religion, one of two public faiths in America. In his comparison, Wilson finds the Lost Cause offered defeated Southerners a sense of meaning and purpose and special identity as a precarious but distinct culture. Southerners may have abandoned their dream of a separate political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their cultural identity by blending Christian rhetoric and symbols with the rhetoric and imagery of Confederate tradition. “Civil religion” has been defined as the religious dimension of a people that enables them to understand a historical experience in transcendent terms. In this light, Wilson explores the role of religion in postbellum southern culture and argues that the profound dislocations of Confederate defeat caused southerners to think in religious terms about the meaning of their unique and tragic experience. The defeat in a war deemed by some as religious in nature threw into question the South’s relationship to God; it was interpreted in part as a God-given trial, whereby suffering and pain would lead Southerners to greater virtue and strength and even prepare them for future crusades. From this reflection upon history emerged the civil religion of the Lost Cause. While recent work in southern religious history has focused on the Old South period, Wilson’s timely study adds to our developing understanding of the South after the Civil War. The Lost Cause movement was an organized effort to preserve the memory of the Confederacy. Historians have examined its political, literary, and social aspects, but Wilson uses the concepts of anthropology, sociology, and historiography to unveil the Lost Cause as an authentic expression of religion. The Lost Cause was celebrated and perpetuated with its own rituals, mythology, and theology; as key celebrants of the religion of the Lost Cause, Southern ministers forged it into a religious movement closely related to their own churches. In examining the role of civil religion in the cult of the military, in the New South ideology, and in the spirit of the Lost Cause colleges, as well as in other aspects, Wilson demonstrates effectively how the religion of the Lost Cause became the institutional embodiment of the South’s tragic experience.
Book Synopsis When All Is Said and Done by : Dolly Blount Lamar
Download or read book When All Is Said and Done written by Dolly Blount Lamar and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1952, this memoir portrays life inside a politically prominent southern family from Reconstruction to the New Deal. Dolly Blount Lamar describes her father's struggle to earn respect and political clout during the Reconstruction era. She details her own social life in Washington, D.C., providing intimate portraits of the wives of Presidents and members of Congress, lobbyists, radical Reconstructionists, and leaders from the Civil War who came together to make the new Union work. Lamar describes her years as president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, her role in electing Sidney Lanier to the Hall of Fame at New York University, and the Stone Mountain Confederate Memorial controversy of the 1920s. The memoir closes with her later years of life in her hometown of Macon, Georgia.
Book Synopsis Stone Mountain to Dallas by : John Andrew Collins
Download or read book Stone Mountain to Dallas written by John Andrew Collins and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-06-06 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the misadventures of the Reverend Roy E. Davis as he travels across the country, helping to establish the nation's second Ku Klux Klan. Stone Mountain to Dallas will take you back to a time and place when the South was feeling the pains of Reconstruction, and walk you through history until the birth of the Civil Rights Movement. Virtually untold until now, the story of Roy E. Davis will shock you as you learn how one single man played such a big role in the formation of multiple white supremacy groups, and surprise you to learn that the effects of his work are long-lasting. Follow the life story of Roy E. Davis, from his days as official spokesman for the Klan where he held public speeches and debates with Imperial Wizard William Joseph Simmons to his money scams with former Congressman William D. Upshaw of Georgia, to creating a religious cult following through the ministry of William M. Branham -- which eventually led to his promotion to Imperial Grand Dragon of the Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
Book Synopsis The Men on Horseback by : Blanche Weitbrec
Download or read book The Men on Horseback written by Blanche Weitbrec and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stone Mountain Park written by Tim Hollis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-29 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, explorers and pioneers told of a place in Georgia where there was a gigantic mountain of solid granite resembling a great gray egg lying half-buried on a vast plain. In time, Stone Mountain, 15 miles east of Atlanta, became a local landmark. In 1915, it was decided that the mountains sheer north face would be a good spot to carve a lasting memorial to the lost cause of the Confederacy. This proved to be easier said than done. Before the project was completed, one of Georgias top tourist attractions was established around Stone Mountains base.
Book Synopsis The Deep End of Flavor by : Tenney Flynn
Download or read book The Deep End of Flavor written by Tenney Flynn and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Tenney Flynn is the grand master of Gulf Coast seafood. This book, full of his delicious recipes and deep sea wisdom, can lead you to mastery as well” (Lolis Eric Elie, author of Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans). More than 100 delicious recipes and tips to help home cooks master cooking all kinds of seafood from the owner of GW Fins restaurant and two-time winner of the New Orleans Magazine “Chef of the Year” Award. Tenney Flynn’s easygoing, engaging style gives readers a tour of his hometown along with a toolkit for cooking seafood, from testing freshness at the market to pairing delicious fish recipes with sides and wines to create a finished menu. From classic Barbecued Shrimp and simple Sautéed Fillets with Brown Butter and Lemon to adventurous Pompano en Papillote with Oysters, Rockefeller Spinach, and Melted Tomatoes and sophisticated Lionfish Ceviche with Satsumas, Limes, and Chiles, Chef Flynn makes cooking fish “as easy as frying an egg.” “Tenney Flynn talked trash (fish) early on. He championed fresh Gulf seafood when most chefs crushed on frozen Atlantic salmon. Now, it’s time to learn how smoked sizzling oysters came to be, how to do redfish on the half shell right, and how GW Fins helped lead the modern seafood revolution.” —John T. Edge, author of The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South “I love that Chef Tenney shares so much how-to and comprehensive info on seafood selection. Recipes are clear and concise, photos excellent.” —Frank Brigsten, James Beard Award-winning chef-owner of Brigtsen’s in New Orleans
Book Synopsis Standing in the Shade by : Dianna Williams
Download or read book Standing in the Shade written by Dianna Williams and published by Dianna M Williams Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-01-11 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing and poignant biography about the early life and childhood of Dianna M. Williams of the Dancing Dolls.
Book Synopsis The Geologic Column by : John K. Reed
Download or read book The Geologic Column written by John K. Reed and published by . This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many wonder how the evolutionary/uniformitarian geologic column fits into diluvial geology. At present, there is a remarkable diversity of original thought on this subject. Recent exchanges in the creationist literature show a tendency for various participants to talk past one another. This book has brought these different perspectives together with two goals: (1) to better define the real differences within diluvial geology, and (2) to identify the concrete issues that will provide a basis for continued research and, hopefully, future resolution. The editors went one step further by providing, at the end of most chapters, a forum with comments and responses. In addition to the editors, the other authors are: Terry Mortenson, Peter Klevberg, Carl Froede Jr., David J. Tyler, Harold G. Coffin, and Emil Silvestru. Though it may be difficult to visualize now, diluvial geology represents a major paradigm shift that holds the potential to stimulate a revolution within the earth sciences.
Book Synopsis Roadside Geology of Georgia by : Pamela J. W. Gore
Download or read book Roadside Geology of Georgia written by Pamela J. W. Gore and published by Roadside Geology. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ride along with geologists Pamela Gore and Bill Witherspoon on this extraordinary tour of the Peach State�s varied terrain. In 35 detailed and densely illustrated road guides, the Roadside Geology of Georgia examines Georgia�s fascinating geology and reveals the stories that lie beneath the surface. You�ll be amazed at Georgia�s geological diversity, from its shifting barrier islands along the coast to the sandstone ridges in its northwest corner. At the Cumberland Island National Seashore you�ll find the ruins of Dungeness, the once-magnificent Carnegie estate built of local mineral resources, and encounter wild horses grazing among windswept dunes. In Atlanta, the white whaleback of granite called Stone Mountain will impress you with its protruding �cat�s paw� minerals and stony layers that are sloughing off like the layers of an onion. In the Blue Ridge Mountains you can witness Amicalola Falls, one of the highest cascading waterfalls east of the Mississippi River, and Tallulah Gorge, one the deepest gorges in the eastern United States. And in the iconic Okefenokee Swamp of south Georgia, you�ll wade through the gator-filled blackwater of one of the largest wetlands in North America. With its engaging prose and 250-plus color photos, maps, and figures, Roadside Geology of Georgia takes you beyond the rocks to unearth the billion-year history of the Empire State of the South.
Download or read book Ironclad written by Paul Clancy and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the Civil War ironclad that saved the Union Navy only to sink in a storm--and its remarkable salvage 140 years later Ironclad tells the saga of the warship USS Monitor and its salvage, one of the most complex and dangerous in history. The Monitor is followed through its maiden voyage from New York to Hampton Roads, its battle with the Merrimack, and its loss off Cape Hatteras. At the same time, author Paul Clancy takes readers behind the scenes of an improbable collaboration between navy divers and cautious archaeologists working 240 feet deep. Clancy creates a memorable, fascinating read, including fresh insights into the sinking of the Union ship and giving the answer to an intriguing forensic mystery: the identities of the two sailors whose bones were found in the Monitor's recovered turret.
Book Synopsis Lost Attractions of Georgia by : Tim Hollis
Download or read book Lost Attractions of Georgia written by Tim Hollis and published by History Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While Atlanta has been a major tourist destination since the Civil War, travelers rarely encountered the rest of Georgia unless they were on their way to Florida. That meant scores of attractions, motels, restaurants and gas stations sprang up along the major and minor routes, all vying for their own piece of those Yankee dollars. In Lost Attractions of Georgia, author Tim Hollis introduces us to such defunct sights as Storyland and the Georgia Game Park, as well as now-extinct elements of popular attractions, including Six Flags Over Georgia, Rock City, Stone Mountain Park and others.
Book Synopsis Atlanta's Stone Mountain by : Paul Stephen Hudson
Download or read book Atlanta's Stone Mountain written by Paul Stephen Hudson and published by Brief History. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breathtaking geological wonder known as Stone Mountain has enchanted people since the age of the Paleo-Indians. Today, Stone Mountain Park annually attracts four million visitors from around the world. Hiking trails showcase rugged granite outcrops with hardy mountain plants, such as endearing yellow daisies. Majestic red-tailed hawks soar overhead. A storied past comes to life through an engaging park quarry exhibit, a historic railroad experience and an epic Confederate Memorial carving envisioned by Gutzon Borglum of Mount Rushmore fame. Writing during the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War, authors Paul Hudson and Lora Mirza of Georgia Perimeter College in Atlanta present with verve this illustrated multicultural history of a legendary landmark.
