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Maryland's Vanishing Lives

Author : John Sherwood
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801852497
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Maryland's Vanishing Lives written by John Sherwood and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than two years, John Sherwood roamed Maryland's small towns and city neighborhoods, traveled Appalachian back roads, and sailed the Chesapeake looking for people whose work or way of life recalled the state's rich and varied tradition. Maryland's Vanishing Lives is his vivid account of the people he met on those journeys. Working in a country store or an old-time movie house, on a small tobacco farm or a weathered skipjack, Sherwood's subjects interest us as people, as stubborn survivors who have watched—sometimes defiantly, sometimes wistfully—as the world moved on. These Marylanders' stories poignantly show what happens to family businesses and ordinary folk in the face of new technology, suburban sprawl, franchise outlets, and changing tastes. But Maryland's Vanishing Lives is also an engaging celebration of pride and craft, and the ability to survive. In this collection of sixty-six short profiles, illustrated with memorable photographs by Edwin Remsberg, Sherwood preserves for posterity the lives of Marylanders who hang on to values and skills that are quickly disappearing.

Vanishing Ocean City

Author : Hunter "Bunk" Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495139529
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Ocean City written by Hunter "Bunk" Mann and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vanishing Ocean City

Author : Hunter "Bunk." Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781495116001
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Ocean City written by Hunter "Bunk." Mann and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake

Author : William B. Cronin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801874352
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (743 download)

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Book Synopsis The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake by : William B. Cronin

Download or read book The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake written by William B. Cronin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Our Vanishing Wild Life

Author : William T. Hornaday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 3752307161
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Our Vanishing Wild Life written by William T. Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Our Vanishing Wild Life by William T. Hornaday

Our Vanishing Wild Life

Author : William Temple Hornaday
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Our Vanishing Wild Life written by William Temple Hornaday and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Temple Hornaday was the Director of the New York Zoological Society and the nation's leading advocate of wildlife conservation in this era. This unsparing manifesto was written to accompany Hornaday's launching of the Permanent Wildlife Protection Fund; it is thus (in the words of the historian Stephen Fox) both "a campaign tract" and "one of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals" (John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement [Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981], p. 149). It is also a landmark of conservation history which had a profound effect on the thought of Aldo Leopold, among others. The book surveys the history and causes of wildlife destruction in America and elsewhere, and sets forth a lengthy program to ensure the protection of remaining wildlife for the future, often in militant and moralistic terms. The work also throws light on some of the complexities inherent in the conservation movement at this time: for example, Hornaday accepts the classification of certain bird and mammalian predators as "noxious" or "vermin" and appropriate for destruction (pp. 77-81); there is no criticism here of the massive campaign for the extermination of wolves and coyotes being sponsored at the time by the Bureau of Biological Survey. On a more general level, Hornaday's fulminations against Italian immigrants as incorrigible bird-killers suggest a connection between nativism and conservationism, while his excoriations of market hunters set forth a deeply-rooted class bias shared by many leading conservationists.

Vanishing Fleece

Author : Clara Parkes
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683356829
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing Fleece written by Clara Parkes and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The renowned knitter shares her year-long adventure through America’s colorful, fascinating—and slowly disappearing—wool industry. Join Clara Parkes as she ventures across the country to meet the shepherds, dyers, and countless workers without whom our knitting needles would be empty, our mills idle, and our feet woefully cold. Along the way, she encounters a flock of Saxon Merino sheep in upstate New York, tours a scouring plant in Texas, visits a steamy Maine dyehouse, helps sort freshly shorn wool on a working farm, and learns how wool fleece is measured, baled, shipped, and turned into skeins. In pursuit of the perfect yarn, Parkes describes a brush with the dangers of opening a bale (they can explode), and her adventures from Maine to Wisconsin (“the most knitterly state”) and back again. By the end of the book, you’ll be ready to set aside the backyard chickens and add a flock of sheep instead.

Vanishing HIstory

Author : Henry J. Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999131022
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Vanishing HIstory written by Henry J. Browne and published by . This book was released on 2022-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanishing History: Ruins in Maryland roughly parallels its Virginia counterpart (Vanishing History: Ruins in Virginia, published in 2017). The Maryland volume explores a sampling of equally fascinating ruins including residences, barns, houses of worship, kilns and furnaces, mills, industries, dams, canal houses, railroad bridges and bridge piers. It likewise features the vision of Henry J. Browne alongside the excellent photography of Kevin MacNutt, and is intended to promote pondering; pique curiosity; honor the skills, needs, challenges and creativity of those who came before us; and encourage honest reflection about the spirit of progress and the inevitability of time. Similarly noted are the ravages of neglect and nature that have become evident to us long after the sites were abandoned and human ambition was redirected. Unique to each site, however, are the details not only of construction and decline, but also the possibilities each has for preservation and repurposing.Specific sites include the Thistle Mill houses, Gapland, Marshall Hall, Catoctin, Genesar; barns in Thurmont, Creagersville, Frederic and Hancock; houses of worship (Daniels Pentecostal Holiness, Herald of Hope Baptist, Eakle's Mill Church, Coventry Parish Church, St. Mark's Lutheran in Rohrersville, St. John's Chapel of St. Michael's Parish, Terra Maria Complex); and Lonaconing Iron Furnace, Nassawango Iron Furnace, Watson Lane Lime Kiln, Hood's Mill, Poplar Grove Mill, Roxbury Gristmill and Distillery, Seneca Stone Cutting Mill, Round Top Hill Cement Company, Maryland Mine Company, Lonaconing Silk Plant, Savage Mill Powerhouse, Daniels Dam, Laurel Cotton Mill Dam, C&O Canal House, Lockhouses 25 and 51, Jarboe's Store, and McCoys Ferry.

My Vanishing Country

Author : Bakari Sellers
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062917471
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book My Vanishing Country written by Bakari Sellers and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestseller What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, in this important book that illuminates the lives of America’s forgotten black working-class men and women. Part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis, My Vanishing Country is an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and future. Anchored in in Bakari Seller’s hometown of Denmark, South Carolina, Country illuminates the pride and pain that continues to fertilize the soil of one of the poorest states in the nation. He traces his father’s rise to become, friend of Stokely Carmichael and Martin Luther King, a civil rights hero, and member of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) , to explore the plight of the South's dwindling rural, black working class—many of whom can trace their ancestry back for seven generations. In his poetic personal history, we are awakened to the crisis affecting the other “Forgotten Men & Women,” who the media seldom acknowledges. For Sellers, these are his family members, neighbors, and friends. He humanizes the struggles that shape their lives: to gain access to healthcare as rural hospitals disappear; to make ends meet as the factories they have relied on shut down and move overseas; to hold on to precious traditions as their towns erode; to forge a path forward without succumbing to despair. My Vanishing Country is also a love letter to fatherhood—to Sellers' father, his lodestar, whose life lessons have shaped him, and to his newborn twins, who he hopes will embrace the Sellers family name and honor its legacy.

The Italian American Experience

Author : Salvatore J. LaGumina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135583331
Total Pages : 733 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book The Italian American Experience written by Salvatore J. LaGumina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Behind the Backlash

Author : Kenneth D. Durr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807854334
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Behind the Backlash written by Kenneth D. Durr and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challengin

Maryland, A Middle Temperament

Author : Robert J. Brugger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801854651
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Maryland, A Middle Temperament written by Robert J. Brugger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-09-25 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state"its special character. Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Maryland: A Middle Temperament explores the ironies, contradictions, and compromises that give "America's oldest border state" its special character. Extensively illustrated and accompanied by bibliography, maps, charts, and tables, Robert Brugger's vivid account of the state's political, economic, social, and cultural heritage—from the outfitting of Cecil Calvert's expedition to the opening of Baltimore's Harborplace—is rich in the issues and personalities that make up Maryland's story and explain its "middle temperament."

The Painted Screens of Baltimore

Author : Elaine Eff
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496803922
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Painted Screens of Baltimore written by Elaine Eff and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painted screens have long been synonymous in the popular imagination with the Baltimore row house. Picturesque, practical, and quirky, window and door screens adorned with scenic views simultaneously offer privacy and ventilation in crowded neighborhoods. As an urban folk art, painted screens flourished in Baltimore, though they did not originate there--precursors date to early eighteenth-century London. They were a fixture on fine homes and businesses in Europe and America throughout the Victorian era. But as the handmade screen yielded to industrial production, the whimsical artifact of the elite classes was suddenly transformed into an item for mass consumption. Historic examples are now a rarity, but in Baltimore the folk art is still very much alive. The Painted Screens of Baltimore takes a first look at this beloved icon of one major American city through the words and images of dozens of self-taught artists who trace their creations to the capable and unlikely brush of one Bohemian immigrant, William Oktavec. In 1913, this corner grocer began a family dynasty inspired generations of artists who continue his craft to this day. The book examines the roots of painted wire cloth, the ethnic communities where painted screens have been at home for a century, and the future of this art form.

Testament to Union

Author : Kathryn Allamong Jacob
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801858611
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (586 download)

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Download or read book Testament to Union written by Kathryn Allamong Jacob and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-10-13 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the stories behind the many District of Columbia statues that honor participants in the Civil War. Organized geographically for easy use on walking or driving tours, the entries list the subject and title of each memorial along with its sculptor, medium, date, and location. 92 photos.

Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland

Author : Raphael Semmes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801854248
Total Pages : 1408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Crime and Punishment in Early Maryland written by Raphael Semmes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1996-04 with total page 1408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The subject of this book pertains to events, often unpleasant, in the domestic lives of the 17th-century Maryland colonists."—publisher's catalog description, 1938 Marylander Edward Erbery called members of the colony's proprietary assembly "rogues and puppies"; he was tied to an apple tree and received thirty-nine lashes. Jacob Lumbrozo, a Maryland Jew who suggested Christ's miracles were done by "magic," was imprisoned indefinitely, escaping execution only by the governor's pardon. Rebecca Fowler was accused of using witchcraft to cause her Calvert County neighbors to feel "very much the worse;" she was hanged on October 9, 1685. Mrs. Thomas Ward whipped a runaway maidservant with a peachtree rod, then rubbed salt into the girl's wounds; the girl died, and Mrs. Ward was fined three hundred pounds of tobacco. Now available in a new paperback edition, Raphael Semmes's classic Crime and Punishment in Colonial Maryland contains a wealth of colorful—though often disturbing—details about the law and lawbreakers in 17th-century Maryland. Semmes explains, for instance, that theft was rare among early Marylanders—if only because the colonists had little worth stealing. But what the colonists valued, they endeavored to protect: A 1662 law punished a person twice-convicted of hog-stealing by branding an "H" on his shoulder. (Widely perceived as being too lenient, the law was amended four years later: first offense, "H" on the forehead.) Men caught in adultery were often fined; women were often whipped. And knowing how to swim was so rare among 17th-century women that suggesting one could do so was tantamount to accusing her of witchcraft: a minister's son who claimed as much was sued by the woman for defamation of character. Crime and Punishment in Colonial Maryland offers fascinating and detailed case histories on such crimes as theft, libel, assault and homicide, as well as on adultery, profanity, drunkenness, and witchcraft. It also explores long-forgotten aspects of old English law, such as theftbote (an early form of "victim compensation"), deodand (an animal or article which, having caused the death of a human being, was forfeited to the Crown for "pious uses"), and the blood test for murderers.

Ghosts in the Surf

Author : Hunter "Bunk" Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781532351266
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Ghosts in the Surf written by Hunter "Bunk" Mann and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oyster Question

Author : Christine Keiner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820337188
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book The Oyster Question written by Christine Keiner and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Oyster Question, Christine Keiner applies perspectives of environmental, agricultural, political, and social history to examine the decline of Maryland’s iconic Chesapeake Bay oyster industry. Oystermen have held on to traditional ways of life, and some continue to use preindustrial methods, tonging oysters by hand from small boats. Others use more intensive tools, and thus it is commonly believed that a lack of regulation enabled oystermen to exploit the bay to the point of ruin. But Keiner offers an opposing view in which state officials, scientists, and oystermen created a regulated commons that sustained tidewater communities for decades. Not until the 1980s did a confluence of natural and unnatural disasters weaken the bay’s resilience enough to endanger the oyster resource. Keiner examines conflicts that pitted scientists in favor of privatization against watermen who used their power in the statehouse to stave off the forces of rural change. Her study breaks new ground regarding the evolution of environmental politics at the state rather than the federal level. The Oyster Question concludes with the impassioned ongoing debate over introducing nonnative oysters to the Chesapeake Bay and how that proposal might affect the struggling watermen and their identity as the last hunter-gatherers of the industrialized world.