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Author : Charles Gilbert Hine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Legends, Stories and Folklore of Old Staten Island: The North Shore written by Charles Gilbert Hine and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Gilbert Hine
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Legends, Stories, and Folklore of Old Staten Island written by Charles Gilbert Hine and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Louis Sublett
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781450502573
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Staten Island written by John Louis Sublett and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, my third book about Staten Island, takes a look into our islands rich and diverse past in a series of short stories. Be they myth, folklore, legend or tales, they have been past down from generation to generation. Some are proven true, some are believed to be false but the one thing they all have in common, they have been repeated time after time and they are fascinating stories. I am sure that some of these stories will bring up fond memories of Staten Islands past. Some of what you will discover in this book are, tales of a Mad Monk in St. Augustine Monastery, Lost Treasure off Staten Island shores, a story about a colorful character called The Indian Lady from Shooters Island, find out why a Nazi prisoner returned after his escape from the armys Halloran General Hospital (Willowbroow State School), discover the connection that Ichabod Crane, the Lindbergh baby, Willie Sutton and the Queen of England had to Staten Island, sit back and enjoy stories of stills and moonshine, gangsters, buried treasures, local ghosts and much more.
Author : Theresa Anarumo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439663548
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Staten Island written by Theresa Anarumo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take the ferry to this New York City borough and discover its colorful secrets, in a quirky history packed with facts and photos. Staten Island has a rich and fascinating cultural legacy that few people outside New York City's greenest borough know about. Chewing gum was invented on the island with the help of Mexican general Antonio López de Santa Anna. Country music legend Roy Clark got his start as a virtuoso guitar player on the Staten Island Ferry. Anna Leonowens, who worked with the king's children in the Court of Siam and was the basis for The King and I, came back to Staten Island to write about her experiences and run a school for children. Join native Staten Islanders Theresa Anarumo and Maureen Seaberg as they document the hidden history of the borough with these stories, and many more
Author : Joseph Borelli
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439674914
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Staten Island in the Nineteenth Century written by Joseph Borelli and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emerging from the Revolutionary War and the formation of a new nation, Staten Island was poised to enter the nineteenth century ripe for growth and prosperity. Fueled by waves of immigration, Richmond County became a boomtown of industry and transportation. Piloting his first ferry with just two small masts and eighteen-cent fares, Cornelius Vanderbilt built a transit empire from his native shores of Staten Island. When the Civil War erupted, Richmond played a key role in housing and training Union troops as 125 naval guns protected New York Harbor at the Narrows. At the close of the century, Staten Island was swept up in the politics of consolidation, with 84 percent of locals voting to join Greater New York, yet the promised benefits of a new mega-city never materialized. Author Joe Borelli charts the trials and triumphs of Staten Island in the nineteenth century.
Author : Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, N.Y.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences ... written by Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences, Staten Island, N.Y. and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Museum Bulletin of the Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences written by Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Margaret Lundrigan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524436
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (244 download)
Download or read book Staten Island written by Margaret Lundrigan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying at the entrance to one of the world's greatest natural harbors, Staten Island has been a most alluring destination ever since Giovanni da Verrazano set eyes upon it in 1524. Even before Colonial times the borough played a significant role in our nation's development economically, culturally, and historically. From Revolutionary battles to Civil War draft riots, while hosting iconic businesses or creating inspiration for the likes of Olmsted and Thoreau, the island has cultivated a prolific and distinguished past that reflects the passion of the American spirit.
Author : Charles William Leng
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Staten Island and Its People written by Charles William Leng and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9781558493315
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (933 download)
Download or read book The Father written by Alfred Habegger and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the passionate, contradictory father of William, Henry and Alice James. The author counters the popular view - a view that the James family perpetuated - that Henry James Sr was a benignant man who devoted himself to the good of his children, preached tolerance, and practised self-effacement. Instead, he shows us a man who developed a convoluted personal philosophy to account for his own feelings of pain and guilt, his conviction of his essential sinfulness and capacity for evil, and his fragile sense of self. The work sets Henry James Sr in the broader intellectual and cultural context of his age. As well as throwing light on the development of James's two sons, it is also a study of how families work.
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Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Staten Island Historian written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588365913
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book The Big Oyster written by Mark Kurlansky and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city’s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. Kurlansky brings characters vividly to life while recounting dramatic incidents that changed the course of New York history. Here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg and Robert Fulton’s “Folly”; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico’s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; even “Diamond” Jim Brady, who we discover was not the gourmand of popular legend. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.
Author : Phillip Papas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738572208
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)
Download or read book Port Richmond written by Phillip Papas and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Aaron Burr, Faber Pencils, the atomic bomb, Paul Zindel, and David Johansen all have one thing in common: Port Richmond. Many Staten Islanders flocked to Richmond Avenue, known as the Fifth Avenue of Staten Island, to shop at Garber Brothers or at Tirone's Shoes or enjoy an ice-cream soda at Stechman's. The Ritz, Palace, and Empire Theaters hosted vaudeville shows, films, rock concerts, and roller-skating. More than a dozen places of worship have been founded in Port Richmond since the late 1600s, mirroring the community's ethnic diversity. Port Richmond traces the unique contributions of each new wave of immigrants to the neighborhood.
Author : Alfred Habegger
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299298337
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Masked written by Alfred Habegger and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brave British widow goes to Siam and—by dint of her principled and indomitable character—inspires that despotic nation to abolish slavery and absolute rule: this appealing legend first took shape after the Civil War when Anna Leonowens came to America from Bangkok and succeeded in becoming a celebrity author and lecturer. Three decades after her death, in the 1940s and 1950s, the story would be transformed into a powerful Western myth by Margaret Landon’s best-selling book Anna and the King of Siam and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical The King and I. But who was Leonowens and why did her story take hold? Although it has been known for some time that she was of Anglo-Indian parentage and that her tales about the Siamese court are unreliable, not until now, with the publication of Masked, has there been a deeply researched account of her extraordinary life. Alfred Habegger, an award-winning biographer, draws on the archives of five continents and recent Thai-language scholarship to disclose the complex person behind the mask and the troubling facts behind the myth. He also ponders the curious fit between Leonowens’s compelling fabrications and the New World’s innocent dreams—in particular the dream that democracy can be spread through quick and easy interventions. Exploring the full historic complexity of what it once meant to pass as white, Masked pays close attention to Leonowens’s midlevel origins in British India, her education at a Bombay charity school for Eurasian children, her material and social milieu in Australia and Singapore, the stresses she endured in Bangkok as a working widow, the latent melancholy that often afflicted her, the problematic aspects of her self-invention, and the welcome she found in America, where a circle of elite New England abolitionists who knew nothing about Southeast Asia gave her their uncritical support. Her embellished story would again capture America’s imagination as World War II ended and a newly interventionist United States looked toward Asia. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Regional Special Interest Boosk, selected by the Public Library Reviewers
Author : Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Proceedings - Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences written by Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Museum Bulletin of the Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences written by Staten Island Association of Arts and Sciences and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
