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Southern Railway's Historic Spencer Shops

Author : Larry K. Neal, Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738587806
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (878 download)

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Book Synopsis Southern Railway's Historic Spencer Shops by : Larry K. Neal, Jr.

Download or read book Southern Railway's Historic Spencer Shops written by Larry K. Neal, Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern Railway's Spencer Shops was a vibrant part of the Southeast's transportation network for more than 80 years. Starting in the late 1800s and continuing until its closure in 1979, the shop complex and its accompanying yards, transfer sheds, and stockyards constituted a major force in the economy of North Carolina and Southern states. The trains that the shop prepared were hauling everyday freight--Appalachian lumber, Piedmont textiles, and perishables--or were famous passenger trains like the Crescent, the Peach Queen, and many more. Others were more notable, such as the locomotive in the folk ballad "The Wreck of the Old 97" or President Roosevelt's funeral train in 1945. The Spencer Shops was an industrial power whose prominence today is celebrated in its continued role as the home to the North Carolina Transportation Museum. This book tells the story of how Spencer Shops came to be, its role in transportation, and its continued use today as a North Carolina Historic Site.

North Carolina Transportation Museum

Author : Alan Coleman
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467127752
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina Transportation Museum written by Alan Coleman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Established in 1896, Spencer Shops was the Southern Railway's largest steam locomotive repair facility. After five decades of providing thousands of jobs to craftsmen and laborers, Spencer Shops and its company town became a victim of technology as diesel-electrics replaced steam locomotives. By August 1960, Spencer Shops had all but ceased operation, its workforce dwindling to a level 95 percent smaller than it had been in the early 1950s. Even as rust and pigeons ruled the largely abandoned complex, a dedicated group of state officials and railroad enthusiasts saw its promise as a state historic site. After years of hard work, Spencer Shops experienced its rebirth with the creation of the North Carolina Transportation Museum (NCTM) in 1977. Today, the impressive facility celebrates not only the rich history of Spencer but also the wide array of transportation history in the Tar Heel State."--Publisher.

Southern Railway's Spencer Shops

Author : Duane Galloway
Publisher : TLC Publishing (VA)
ISBN 13 : 9781883089238
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Southern Railway's Spencer Shops written by Duane Galloway and published by TLC Publishing (VA). This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curt Tillotson, Jr. takes a close and personal look at the Southern Railway through his own photography in the period 1960-1982, with some photos from others going back to about 1950. He treats every class of diesel owned by the Southern from beginning to end. Some "roster" or "portrait" type photos are included but the bulk of the book comprises superb action photography with the locomotives and trains in a variety of settings. His extended captions capture the feel of the era of transition. Anyone interested in railroads of the Southeastern United States will be interested in this volume. Southern Railway hasn't been as well covered by books as some lines, but this book seeks to fill that gap in many ways, in the era of dieselization.

All Aboard the Polar Express

Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618477920
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (779 download)

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Download or read book All Aboard the Polar Express written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2004 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Polar Express train visits the North Pole and passengers find out what the first gift of the season is going to be from Santa Claus.

The Wright Sister

Author : Patty Dann
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062993127
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Wright Sister written by Patty Dann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-18 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epistolary novel of historical fiction that imagines the life of Katharine Wright and her relationship with her famous brothers, Wilbur and Orville Wright. On December 17, 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright flew the world’s first airplane at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, establishing the Wright Brothers as world-renowned pioneers of flight. Known to far fewer people was their whip-smart and well-educated sister Katharine, a suffragette and early feminist. After Wilbur passed away, Katharine lived with and took care of her increasingly reclusive brother Orville, who often turned to his more confident and supportive sister to help him through fame and fortune. But when Katharine became engaged to their mutual friend, Harry Haskell, Orville felt abandoned and betrayed. He smashed a pitcher of flowers against a wall and refused to attend the wedding or speak to Katharine or Harry. As the years went on, the siblings grew further and further apart. In The Wright Sister, Patty Dann wonderfully imagines the blossoming of Katharine, revealed in her “Marriage Diary”—in which she emerges as a frank, vibrant, intellectually and socially engaged, sexually active woman coming into her own—and her one-sided correspondence with her estranged brother as she hopes to repair their fractured relationship. Even though she pictures “Orv” throwing her letters away, Katharine cannot contain her joie de vivre, her love of married life, her strong advocacy of the suffragette cause, or her abiding affection for her stubborn sibling as she fondly recalls their shared life. An inspiring and poignant chronicle of feminism, family, and forgiveness, The Wright Sister is an unforgettable portrait of a woman, a sister of inventors, who found a way to reinvent herself.

The Perfect Christmas

Author : Patricia L. Christian
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781497436817
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Christmas written by Patricia L. Christian and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Three worried pine trees huddle together on a tree lot, just days before Christmas. Butch, Barney, and Marshall have dreamed of becoming beautiful, decorated Christmas trees since they were saplings, but none of them is flawless, and their dreams seem impossible."--Page 4 of cover.

Right to Ride

Author : Blair L. M. Kelley
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807895814
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Right to Ride written by Blair L. M. Kelley and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a reexamination of the earliest struggles against Jim Crow, Blair Kelley exposes the fullness of African American efforts to resist the passage of segregation laws dividing trains and streetcars by race in the early Jim Crow era. Right to Ride chronicles the litigation and local organizing against segregated rails that led to the Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896 and the streetcar boycott movement waged in twenty-five southern cities from 1900 to 1907. Kelley tells the stories of the brave but little-known men and women who faced down the violence of lynching and urban race riots to contest segregation. Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores the community organizations that bound protestors together and the divisions of class, gender, and ambition that sometimes drove them apart. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance.

The Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company, 1833-1854

Author : James C. Burke
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786486740
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company, 1833-1854 written by James C. Burke and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-07-25 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1833, the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Company set out to connect the port city of Wilmington to North Carolina's capital. When it was done in 1840, after changing its route, the company had completed 161 miles of track--the longest railroad in the world at the time--and provided continuous transportation from the town of Weldon on the Roanoke River to Wilmington and on to Charleston, South Carolina, by steamboat. A marvel of civil engineering by the standards of the day, the railroad constituted a tour de force of organization, finance and political will that risked the fortunes of individuals and the credit of the state. This study chronicles the project from its inception, exploring its impact on subsequent railroad development in North Carolina and its significance within the context of American railroad history as a whole.

Sedalia and the Palmer Memorial Institute

Author : Tracey Burns-Vann
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738516448
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Sedalia and the Palmer Memorial Institute written by Tracey Burns-Vann and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sedalia, North Carolina, has a rich and diverse history. In 1901, the American Missionary Association hired a young woman, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, to teach at a small school in eastern Guilford County. The school closed in 1902, and at the request of the local residents, Brown remained and opened the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial Institute, which in later years became a world renowned African-American preparatory school that educated children from the wealthiest families in the United States and six foreign nations. Sedalia and the Palmer Memorial Institute traces the growth and development of a rural Southern community that made an impact on the nation.

Atlantic Coast Line

Author : Champion McDowell Davis
Publisher : New York, Newcomen Society in North America
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Coast Line written by Champion McDowell Davis and published by New York, Newcomen Society in North America. This book was released on 1950 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Step It Up and Go

Author : David Menconi
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469659360
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book Step It Up and Go written by David Menconi and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. David Menconi spent three decades immersed in the state's music, where traditions run deep but the energy expands in countless directions. Menconi shows how working-class roots and rebellion tie North Carolina's Piedmont blues, jazz, and bluegrass to beach music, rock, hip-hop, and more. From mill towns and mountain coves to college-town clubs and the stage of American Idol, Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk, Step It Up and Go celebrates homegrown music just as essential to the state as barbecue and basketball. Spanning a century of history from the dawn of recorded music to the present, and with sidebars and photos that help reveal the many-splendored glory of North Carolina's sonic landscape, this is a must-read for every music lover.

Old Volumes Shake Their Vellum Heads

Author : Dorothy M. Schullian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258526375
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Old Volumes Shake Their Vellum Heads written by Dorothy M. Schullian and published by . This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Unto These Hills

Author : Kermit Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780807868751
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Unto These Hills written by Kermit Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unto These Hills: A Drama of the Cherokee

North Carolina

Author : Sara Pitzer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0762752335
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book North Carolina written by Sara Pitzer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

North Carolina

Author : Sheila Turnage
Publisher : Compass America Guides
ISBN 13 : 1400009049
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Carolina written by Sheila Turnage and published by Compass America Guides. This book was released on 2009-10-27 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering cities, states, and regions of the United States, these richly illustrated handbooks capture the character and culture of important American destinations, along with topical essays, color maps, and capsule reviews of restaurants and hotels.

The Sunset Limited

Author : Cormac McCarthy
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330535757
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Sunset Limited written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deft, spare, and full of artful tension, The Sunset Limited is a beautifully crafted play from the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of No Country for Old Men and Blood Meridian. 'The Sunset Limited grips from the very first page' – Financial Times A startling encounter on a New York subway platform leads two strangers to a run-down tenement where a life or death decision must be made. In that small apartment the two men, known as 'Black' and 'White', begin a conversatino that leads each back through his own history. White is a professor whose seemingly enviable existence of relative ease has left him nonetheless in despair. Black, an ex-con in recovery for drug addiction, is the more hopeful of the men. He is, however, desperate to convince White of the power of faith – while White is desperate to deny it. Between them, they hope to discover the meaning of life itself. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain

Our Vanishing Americana

Author : Mike Lassiter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781950768622
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book Our Vanishing Americana written by Mike Lassiter and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A decade after his hugely successful "North Carolina Portrait," Lassiter offers his companion work on its sister state to the south. Traveling backroads and bypassed communities in each of South Carolina's 46 counties, he has captured the world of our grandparents, our parents and, for some of us, our youth. The book is divided according to the type of store or business. Each chapter contains an introduction highlighting a few of the people and places Lassiter encountered during his travels. The county by county index assists you in looking for places of interest. "The history of South Carolina comes alive in these pages in both pictures and words." -Jack Bass, chronicler of the American South and author or co-author of eight books, including The Palmetto State: The Making of South Carolina."