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Book Synopsis Growing up on Main Street by : Evelyn McCollum
Download or read book Growing up on Main Street written by Evelyn McCollum and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on Main Street is my memoir beginning with my earliest memories when I was five years old. In addition, in two other sections I tried to capture the emotional and tragic time when my grandfather and aunt died two months apart. The third section is the illustrious story of my maternal grandmother and her siblings who remain on property where they were born and grew up for the rest of their lives
Book Synopsis Growing Up on Main Street by : Lila Joan Shaker
Download or read book Growing Up on Main Street written by Lila Joan Shaker and published by . This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resident of Danbury all her life and a lifetime with one company. Born at 385 Main Street, Danbury in 1931. The days when Jack-o-lanterns and burning of leaves were popular. Helped her parents sell as many as 500 Christmas Trees outside her parents store and home in the freezing winter snows. Lila would help her father make wreaths from the trimmings of the trees. The income was a great bonus for Christmas gifts. She also worked in her parents' (Mike and Jenny) grocery store adjacent to their home. Attended St. Joseph's School for 8 years and a member of the Church choir. Attended Danbury High School graduating in 1949 with honors. After graduation, Lila wanted to attend Green Mountain College up north but in those days going away from a home as a single girl was not well accepted by the parents. Her teachers from High School prompted her to take the test at the College in Danbury called "Normal College" in those days, but because the school did not offer business subjects it was difficult to pass the test e.g. Shakespeare and Algebra, and she failed. The IQ tests were great to pass but when it came to subjects she did not take, it was impossible. Disappointed as she was and just out of high school in 1949, one of her friends told her about Barden. In October, 1949, she walked into the lobby of The Barden Corporation, manufacturers of Precision Ball Bearings. The company was closed because of inventory. In those days, Barden closed its books October 31, a fiscal year. She was lucky to be greeted by Mr. Tomlinson, Vice President-General Manager, who asked her what she was looking for? She told him that she just graduated from Danbury High School after having taken the Commercial Course in Business (Shorthand and Typing) and was looking for an office position. Mr. Tomlinson answered: "I think I know just the job you would be qualified for" and he called someone, made an appointment for Lila, and within a day, she was hired for the Quality Control Department. This started her lifetime at Barden as the Steno Clerk to the Quality Manager and Chief Inspector. Her first project was to start the files for the Quality Control Department. Lila, while working at Barden, signed up for the Civilian Defense Auxiliary Police Force School which opened for enrollment in Danbury in 1950. Lila joined the school and finished training working out of the War Memorial on South Street and Danbury Police Station (making bullets out of powder and lead casings), nights and weekends. Her main duty was traffic duty on Main and White Streets dressed in full grey and black uniform and after many sessions in target practice on White Turkey Road, she was allowed to carry a 38 loaded pistol. She also worked the traffic signal lights on north Main and White Streets. During the floods of 55 and 56 she worked with Rescue teams doing traffic duty and any rescue missions. In the early 1950's, she won the Connecticut State Championship "nail driving contest" at Cappellaro's Grove competing with 50 other women (driving spikes in 4x4's). She worked for Pinkerton Police at the Danbury Fair in the 70's and 80's for a total of 10 years, on blustery windy days, doing traffic and parking duty for the Fair Grounds entranceway. More than a hobby, Lila worked painting with oils, pencil, charcoal, water colors. Won first prize blue ribbon (judges were professional artists from New York) for an English scene with stagecoach and horses. She painted over 300 paintings in her lifetime. Presently writing a book, similar to Irma Bambeck's, called "Growing up on Main Street". She hopes to get the book published after retirement in the year 2000. She loves to write poetry, famous for her hand-drawn greeting cards she would send to her friends. In her lifetime at Barden from the age of 18 to present (going on 51 years), she worked for the Quality/Engineering Department as secretary, administrative assistant for 29 years, as Office
Download or read book Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by First Avenue Editions TM. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol Milford dreams of living in a small, rural town. But Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, isn't the paradise she'd imagined. First published in 1920, this unabridged edition of the Sinclair Lewis novel is an American classic, considered by many to be his most noteworthy and lasting work. As a work of social satire, this complex and compelling look at small-town America in the early 20th century has earned its place among the classics.
Book Synopsis Growing Up on Main Street by : Evelyn McCollum
Download or read book Growing Up on Main Street written by Evelyn McCollum and published by . This book was released on 2022-09-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on Main Street is my memoir beginning with my earliest memories when I was five years old. In addition, in two other sections I tried to capture the emotional and tragic time when my grandfather and aunt died two months apart. The third section is the illustrious story of my maternal grandmother and her siblings who remain on property where they were born and grew up for the rest of their lives
Book Synopsis Growing Up on Main Street in a Small-town by : Jack Zarling
Download or read book Growing Up on Main Street in a Small-town written by Jack Zarling and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on main street in a small-town is an autobiographical account by Jack Zarling about growing up on Main Street in Gillett, Wisconsin. Take a trip down memory lane to the 1940s of small-town Wisconsin. Life was different back then. Things were a lot slower, but that didn't mean there was a lack of excitement! Adventures abound around every turn on Main Street. This small-town community came together to make a lasting impact on Jack Zarling. Follow young Jack up and down Main Street as we encounter the businesses and people who made this small-town such a special place to grow up in.
Book Synopsis The Death and Life of Main Street by : Miles Orvell
Download or read book The Death and Life of Main Street written by Miles Orvell and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.
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Book Synopsis Main Street by : Mindy Thompson Fullilove
Download or read book Main Street written by Mindy Thompson Fullilove and published by New Village Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to “help us name and solve our problems.” In an era of compounding crises including racial injustice, climate change, and COVID-19, the ability to rely on the power of community is more important than ever. However, Fullilove describes how a pattern of disinvestment in inner-city neighborhoods has left Main Streets across the U.S. in disrepair, weakening our cities and leaving us vulnerable to catastrophe. In the face of urban renewal programs built in response to a supposed lack of “personal responsibility,” Fullilove offers “a different story, that of a series of forced displacements that had devastating effects on inner-city communities. Through that lens, we can appreciate the strength of segregated communities that managed to temper the ravages of racism through the Jim Crow era, and build political power and many kinds of wealth. . . . Only a very well-integrated, powerful community—one with deep spiritual principles—could have accomplished such a feat.” This is the power she hopes we will find again. Throughout Main Street, readers glimpse strong, vibrant communities who have conquered a variety of disasters, from the near loss of a beloved local business to the devastation of a hurricane. Using case studies to illustrate her findings, Fullilove turns our eyes to the cracks in city centers, the parts of the city that tend to be avoided or ignored. Providing a framework for those who wish to see their communities revitalized, Fullilove’s Main Street encourages us all to look both inward and outward to find the assets that already exist to create meaningful change.
Book Synopsis Growing Up St. Louis by : Jim Merkel
Download or read book Growing Up St. Louis written by Jim Merkel and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter when or where we grow up, the stories, people, and places that populate our memories leave an indelible mark on the manuscript that becomes our life story. A day at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904, meatless meals and hard times during the Great Depression, or knowing Mark McGwire's precise homerun count that summer of 1998 become galvanized in our own timelines, while other details fade into the background. In Growing Up St. Louis, hear the stories that stuck with more than 110 native St. Louisans over the last century told by the very people who lived through them. Ranging from joyous to humdrum, and even to grim, these childhood memories offer a glimpse of life in still frame, from the start of the twentieth century to the present day. A woman speaks lovingly of the elephant ears she bought in University City in the 1950s while a future local sportscaster falls in love with sports as he and his dad watch the 1968 World Series. With new and old photographs to accompany the essays, join veteran author Jim Merkel on a journey through ten decades of coming of age in St. Louis. Whether they spark nostalgia or empathy, they'll surely provoke commentary about how deeply our tender years impact us for the rest of our lives.
Book Synopsis Main Street and Empire by : Ryan Poll
Download or read book Main Street and Empire written by Ryan Poll and published by American Literatures Initiativ. This book was released on 2012 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The small town has become a national icon that circulates widely in literature, culture, and politics as an authentic American space and community. Yet there are surprisingly few critical studies that analyze the small town's centrality to the United States' identity and imagination. In Main Street and Empire, Ryan Poll addresses this need, arguing that the small town, as evoked by the image of "Main Street," is not a relic of the past but rather a metaphorical screen upon which America's "everyday" stories and subjects are projected on both a national and global scale. Bringing together a broad selection of texts--from Thornton Wilder's Our Town, Grace Metalious's Peyton Place, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show to the speeches of William McKinley, Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama--Poll examines how the small town is used to imagine and reproduce the nation throughout the twentieth- and into the twenty-first century. He contends that the dominant small town, despite its innocent, nostalgic appearance, is central to the development of the U.S. empire and global capitalism." --Publisher description.
Book Synopsis Growing Up with the Town by : Dorothy Schwieder
Download or read book Growing Up with the Town written by Dorothy Schwieder and published by . This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Schwieder tells the story of this small town in the West River country, with its harsh and unpredictable physical environment, through the activities of her father, Walter Hubbard, and his family of ten children. Walter Hubbard's experiences as a business owner and town builder and his attitudes toward work, education, and family both reflected and shaped the lives of Presho's inhabitants and the town itself.".
Download or read book The Good City written by Allan B. Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities, Allan B. Jacobs contends, ought to be magnificent, beautiful places to live. They should be places where people can be fulfilled, where they can be what they can be, where there is freedom, love, ideas, excitement, quiet and joy. Cities ought to be the ultimate manifestation of society’s collective achievements. Allan B. Jacobs is one of the world’s best known planners and urban design practitioners, with a long and distinguished international career. Drawing on his professional experience of almost sixty years, Jacobs guides the reader through the lessons he’s learnt as a planner and lover of cities. Cities from Brazil, Italy, India, Japan, China and the US are featured. Written with a wonderfully engaging, humorous tone and Jacobs’ own drawings, The Good City transfers lessons on city design, building and urban change to all those willing to help cities become the magnificent, beautiful places they should be - and encourages all inhabitants to learn to appreciate and explore their own cities.
Book Synopsis Growing Up and Getting By by : John Horton
Download or read book Growing Up and Getting By written by John Horton and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how children, young people and families cope with situations of socio-economic poverty and precarity in diverse international contexts and looks at the evidence of the harms and inequalities caused by these processes.
Book Synopsis Growing Up with the Town by : Dorothy Schwieder
Download or read book Growing Up with the Town written by Dorothy Schwieder and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this unusual blend of chronological and personal history, Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder combines scholarly sources with family memories to create a loving and informed history of Presho, South Dakota, and her family's life there from the time of settlement in 1905 to the mid 1950s. Schwieder tells the story of this small town in the West River country, with its harsh and unpredictable physical environment, through the activities of her father, Walter Hubbard, and his family of ten children. Walter Hubbard’s experiences as a business owner and town builder and his attitudes toward work, education, and family both reflected and shaped the lives of Presho's inhabitants and the town itself. While most histories of the Plains focus on farm life, Schwieder writes entirely about small-town society. She uses newspaper accounts, state and county histories, census data, interviews with residents, and the childhood memories of herself and her nine siblings to create an entwined, first-hand social and economic portrait of life on main street from the perspective of its citizens.
Book Synopsis Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars by : Norman Jacobs
Download or read book Cracked Eggs and Chicken Soup - A Memoir of Growing Up Between The Wars written by Norman Jacobs and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revealing memoir of childhood, the author shows not only what affected his family, but also reveals a large slice of social history concerning the lives of all ordinary working-class people struggling to live in the slums of the East End of London in those pre-Welfare State days. He writes with sympathy, and sometimes anger, of the overcrowded houses with families of anything up to eight children, as his own had, living in just two or three rooms with outside W.C. and water tap; of the reliance on charity and the soup kitchen for food; of trying to eke out what little income they had by buying stale bread and cracked eggs or other cheap food from the many itinerant street sellers. Yet this is also a chronicle of what was a turbulent time in British history, and especially in the East End, with its then still large Jewish and Irish populations. So here too is an eyewitness account of the Depression, and of the provocative marches by Sir Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists through the area, culminating in the Battle of Cable Street that saw the marchers turned back by the efforts of Jewish, Irish, communist and socialist protestors. Above all, however, Norman Jacobs writes with affection of the area and its extraordinary mix of peoples, as well as the now-vanished aspects of everyday life, such as the music hall, the two-valve radio, and the first Cup Final to be played at Wembley.
Book Synopsis Babbitt & Main Street by : Sinclair Lewis
Download or read book Babbitt & Main Street written by Sinclair Lewis and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-16 with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a satirical novel about American culture and society that critiques the vacuity of middle-class life and the social pressure toward conformity. The controversy provoked by Babbitt was influential in the decision to award the Nobel Prize in literature to Lewis in 1930. The word "Babbitt" entered the English language as a "person and especially a business or professional man who conforms unthinkingly to prevailing middle-class standards". Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920 and was nominated for Pulitzer Prize in 1921. It tells the story of Carol Milford, a woman of ambition and unconventional thinking, who is determined to change the Main Street into a better place.
Book Synopsis Growing Up Country by : Charlie Daniels
Download or read book Growing Up Country written by Charlie Daniels and published by Flying Dolphin Press. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Growing Up Country: “I learned early in life that country is not a place on a map. Country is a place in your heart. In your soul. In the very depth of your being.” —Bill Anderson “One of the things I like most about country life is that nothing much has really changed . . . My grandchildren and I are still walking and hunting in the same woods and fishing in the same creeks as I did with my father.” —President Jimmy Carter “Food was at the heart of our home. And, other than those troublesome vegetables, I loved all of it. We fried everything—we’d have even fried water if we could’ve.” —Keith Anderson “I can’t imagine what my life would have been without peaceful days, mountain streams, homegrown and home-cooked food, country church, and all-day singing with dinner on the grounds with family and friends.” —Dolly Parton “Growing up country—there’s nothing like it. It’s growing up with your grandmother and granddaddy around . . . it’s a lot of love when you need it, great cooking in the kitchen, and always being real.” —Eddie Montgomery Blackberry pie on the window ledge. The Grand Ole Opry on the radio. Sunday dinners on the table. Families swinging on the front porch after a hard day’s work. It’s all part of the country way of life. Here, legendary country music singer Charlie Daniels introduces and edits a collection of heartfelt essays from an all-star cast of contributors on what it means to grow up country. United by a love of music, these notables show us that country means more than just the twang of a guitar. They share a belief in hard work, integrity, strength of character, and having the courage not to quit. The stories here tell of rustic upbringings and rich spirits, of parents who believed in tough love and old-fashioned common sense, and of a strong sense of community, pride in your country, and a love of the natural world. You’ll get an intimate glimpse into the lives of: Country music royalty and all-time greats: such as Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandrell, Brenda Lee, Dobie Gray, and Lee Greenwood Southern rock gods: such as Gary Rossington and Donnie Van Zant The newest crop of stars: such as Sara Evans, Toby Keith, and Clint Black Special guests: such as former president Jimmy Carter, and seven-time all around rodeo champion Ty Murray These snapshots show how living country has allowed our favorite singers, songwriters, and stage performers to make a career out of doing what they love while never forgetting that when you’ve grown up country, home isn’t just a place where you live, it’s a state of the heart.
