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Author : Parke Rouse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875170596
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Remembering Williamsburg written by Parke Rouse and published by . This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy E. Morgan
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738524733
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Williamsburg written by Timothy E. Morgan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the days of the Powhatan Indians to the establishment of Middle Plantation nearly 400 years ago, from its rise to power for a hundred years as the capital of England's largest North American colony to its decline into as many years of obscurity, Williamsburg has been shaped by the forces of history. Beneath the remarkable surface of today's restored colonial city lies an even more fascinating glimpse into the life of a community that has weathered the full sweep of American history.
Author : P. C. Marotta
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781546954545
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Brooklyn Italian written by P. C. Marotta and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brooklyn Italian: Remembering Williamsburg will take you on a journey back in time. To a neighborhood in the borough of Brooklyn New York called Williamsburg. From the beginning of it's existence in 1638 to present day, through the rise of industry, two world wars, the Depression of the late 1920's, the rise of the Mafia and the immigrants who settled there in search for a better life. In their own words, long time residents tell their stories of a time when summer evenings family and friends gathered on stoops to talk about the happenings of the day or just to share a cup of coffee, when children played stick ball, jacks and hopscotch till the street lamps came on. . When a handshake meant trust and respect was earned. They came for a better life, for themselves and their children. Many enclaves with cultural differences yet sharing one vision, to pursue the American dream. The freedom to choose, to become, to survive. While notables such as Corning Ware, Standard Oil and Domino Sugar found Williamsburg to be a profitable place to call home, other notables were making their mark in Williamsburg as well such as the Bonanno family Underboss Carmine Galante and the infamous Bugsy Siegel and Alfonse Capone. In their own words, long time residents of Williamsburg Brooklyn share their life history in letters telling the world what it was like living during The Great Depression, WWII, poverty and survival. As with each generation change is inevitable and it's change that allows us to pass on the stories of the generations before preserving the past to become an integrated part of our future.
Author : Philip Fishman
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1938223314
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (382 download)
Download or read book A Sukkah is Burning written by Philip Fishman and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PHILIP FISHMAN grew up in the Brooklyn Jewish neighborhood of Williamsburg during the 1950s, when the community experienced a large influx of Hasidic Jewish refugees from Eastern Europe and the neighborhood evolved from a multi-ethnic Jewishly heterodox community similar to "Jewish" areas in other parts of New York City into a tightly knit re-invention of an ultra-pious East European shtetl. The culture and values of the new arrivals often conflicted sharply with the older community. The fault lines of this kulturkampf were the context of his childhood-and these memoirs vividly describe the personal, familial, and communal tensions associated with this social transformation. Williamsburg's metamorphosis into an exclusively haredi enclave was the first of its kind in the United States, but this neighborhood's profound makeover, with the associated community discord, was soon echoed in many other American locales and is occurring in many Israeli communities. The post-war transformation of Williamsburg foreshadowed a dramatic and ongoing transformation of American Orthodoxy and-more broadly- American Jewish life in the 21st century.
Author : George Humphrey Yetter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248350
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Restoring Williamsburg written by George Humphrey Yetter and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This up-to-date and comprehensive look at the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg illuminates the important role it has played in our understanding of 18th-century America.
Author : Robert Anasi
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374533318
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book The Last Bohemia written by Robert Anasi and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former resident describes the transformation of Williamsburg, Brooklyn which went from a gritty industrial district, to an artist's colony, to housing members of the dot-com boom, to an area now known for hipster culture and real-estate development.
Author : Gershon Kranzler
Publisher : Cis Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780935063585
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Williamsburg Memories written by Gershon Kranzler and published by Cis Pub. This book was released on 1988 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carson O. Hudson Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 143966708X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Hidden History of Civil War Williamsburg written by Carson O. Hudson Jr. and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, thousands of visitors visit Colonial Williamsburg to learn about the past and walk where the Founding Fathers walked. The fact that the same ground was later soaked with the tears and blood of their children and grandchildren during our tragic Civil War is frequently forgotten. In this expanded and revised version of Yankees in the Streets: Forgotten People and Stories of Civil War Williamsburg, local historian Carson Hudson tells the stories of this hallowed ground and the people who walked it.
Author : Nathaniel Deutsch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300258372
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Fortress in Brooklyn written by Nathaniel Deutsch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic story of Hasidic Williamsburg, from the decline of New York to the gentrification of Brooklyn "A rich chronicle of the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg. . . . This expert account enlightens."—Publishers Weekly “One of the most creative and iconoclastic works to have been written about Jews in the United States.”—Eliyahu Stern, Yale University The Hasidic community in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn is famously one of the most separatist, intensely religious, and politically savvy groups of people in the entire United States. Less known is how the community survived in one of the toughest parts of New York City during an era of steep decline, only to later resist and also participate in the unprecedented gentrification of the neighborhood. Nathaniel Deutsch and Michael Casper unravel the fascinating history of how a group of determined Holocaust survivors encountered, shaped, and sometimes fiercely opposed the urban processes that transformed their gritty neighborhood, from white flight and the construction of public housing to rising crime, divestment of city services, and, ultimately, extreme gentrification. By showing how Williamsburg’s Hasidim rejected assimilation while still undergoing distinctive forms of Americanization and racialization, Deutsch and Casper present both a provocative counter-history of American Jewry and a novel look at how race, real estate, and religion intersected in the creation of a quintessential, and yet deeply misunderstood, New York neighborhood.
Author : Anders Greenspan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625679
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Creating Colonial Williamsburg written by Anders Greenspan and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete understanding of the town's true history. The meaning and purpose of Colonial Williamsburg has changed over time, along with America's changing social and political landscapes, making the study of this historic site a unique and meaningful entry point to understanding the shifting modern American character. In recent years, financial struggles and declining attendance forced a new interpretation of the town, extending the presentation into the period of the American Revolution, while adding new interpretive approaches such as street theater and a greater emphasis on technology. Over its eighty-year history, says Greenspan, Colonial Williamsburg has grown and matured, while still retaining its emphasis on the importance of eighteenth-century values and their application in the modern world.
Author : Joseph A. Young
Publisher : Mercer University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780881460766
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Erasing Public Memory written by Joseph A. Young and published by Mercer University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the Race in the Humanities conference, held in Nov. 2001 at Univ. of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin.
Author : Outlet
Publisher : Crescent
ISBN 13 : 9780517647875
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Williamsburg written by Outlet and published by Crescent. This book was released on 1987-07-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of photographs revealing the natural vistas, man-made wonders, and tourist attractions of Williamsburg.
Author : Amy K. Levin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538107899
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Defining Memory written by Amy K. Levin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated edition of Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled “Museums Moving Forward,” which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well as the complexities of creating institutions devoted to marginalized histories. In addition to the new chapters, the second edition updates existing chapters, presenting changes to the museums discussed. It features expanded discussions of how local museums treat (or ignore) racial and ethnic diversity and concludes with a look at how business relationships, political events, and the economy affect what is shown and how it is displayed in local museums.
Author : Ilana Abramovitch
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584650034
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Jews of Brooklyn written by Ilana Abramovitch and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 40 historians, folklorists, and ordinary Brooklyn Jews present a vivid, living record of this astonishing cultural heritage. 150 illustrations. Map.
Author : John A. Jakle
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572338334
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)
Download or read book Remembering Roadside America written by John A. Jakle and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The use of cars and trucks over the past century has remade American geography—pushing big cities ever outward toward suburbanization, spurring the growth of some small towns while hastening the decline of others, and spawning a new kind of commercial landscape marked by gas stations, drive-in restaurants, motels, tourist attractions, and countless other retail entities that express our national love affair with the open road. By its very nature, this landscape is ever changing, indeed ephemeral. What is new quickly becomes old and is soon forgotten. In this absorbing book, John Jakle and Keith Sculle ponder how “Roadside America” might be remembered, especially since so little physical evidence of its earliest years survives. In straightforward and lively prose, supplemented by copious illustrations—historic and modern photographs, advertising postcards, cartoons, roadmaps—they survey the ways in which automobility has transformed life in the United States. Asking how we might best commemorate and preserve this part of our past—which has been so vital economically and politically, so significant to the cultural aspirations of ordinary Americans, yet so often ignored by scholars who dismiss it as kitsch—they propose the development of an actual outdoor museum that would treat seriously the themes of our roadside history. Certainly, museums have been created for frontier pioneering, the rise of commercial agriculture, and the coming of water- and steam-powered industrialization and transportation, especially the railroad. Is now not the time, the authors ask, for a museum forcefully exploring the automobile’s emergence and the changes it has brought to place and landscape? Such a museum need not deny the nostalgic appeal of roadsides past, but if done properly, it could also tell us much about what the authors describe as “the most important kind of place yet devised in the American experience.” John A. Jakle is Emeritus Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Keith A. Sculle is the former head of research and education at the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency. They have coauthored such books as America’s Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Automobile Age; Motoring: The Highway Experience in America; Fast Food: Roadside Restaurants in the Automobile Age; and The Gas Station in America.
Author : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493044524
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Colonial Williamsburg Christmas written by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-09-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Christmas is come, hang on the pot, Let spits turn round, and ovens be hot; Beef, pork, and poultry, now provide, To feast thy neighbours at this tide; Then wash all down with good wine and beer, And so with mirth conclude the YEAR.” So wrote an anonymous poet in the 1765 edition of the Virginia Almanack, published in Williamsburg. Drawing on eighteenth-century traditions, Colonial Williamsburg has become famous for its celebrations of the Christmas season. In Colonial Williamsburg’s Historic Area—and in the pages of this lavishly illustrated book—you’ll find wreaths and roping crafted from greenery, fruit, and other natural materials; boards groaning under the weight of holiday fare; cressets warming the streets and candles flickering in the windows of the town’s homes and taverns; fireworks lighting up such iconic buildings as the Capitol and the Governor’s Palace. In colonial times and today, Christmas in Williamsburg not a day but a season—and one this book lets you experience throughout the year.
Author : Frances Watson Clark
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439626154
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Colonial Parkway written by Frances Watson Clark and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-30 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Colonial Parkway is a living timeline to the critical beginnings of our nation. Connecting a historic triangle of cities, the parkway winds along the James River overlooking Jamestown Island, where the first permanent English colony was established; through Williamsburg, the Colonial seat of government for the new country; and arrives in Yorktown, where the fledgling nation won independence from the British at the end of the Revolutionary War. The vision of the early directors of the U.S. National Park Service became the foundation for getting the approval to construct a road that would allow visitors to move from one historic place to the next without the disruptions of the modern world. Construction began in the early 1930s, and the final phase was finished in 1957 for the 350th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown. While the parkway is a marvel in engineering, the area it covers also serves as a recreational locale for biking, fishing, and hiking.
