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River Road Rambler

Author : Mary Ann Sternberg
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807150789
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book River Road Rambler written by Mary Ann Sternberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Author Mary Ann Sternberg has spent over two decades exploring this richly historic corridor, uncovering intriguing and often underappreciated places. In River Road Rambler, she presents fifteen sketches about sites along this scenic route. From familiar stops, such as the National Hansen's Disease Center Museum at Carville, with its octogenarian guide, and the sui generis perique tobacco area of St. James Parish to the less well-noted yet highly distinctive Our Lady of Lourdes grotto in Convent and the gradually disappearing Colonial Sugars Historic District, Sternberg presents a new perspective on some of the region's most colorful places. While many of the places remain easily accessible to any River Road rambler, Sternberg also presents others closed to the public, giving armchair travelers an introduction to these otherwise unreachable attractions. Throughout, Sternberg captures the ambiance of her surroundings with a clear, engaging, and sometimes quirky examination of the relationships between past and present. In a poignant piece on the Valcour Aime garden, for example, she delves into the history of this lavish, nationally acclaimed planter's garden, created and abandoned in the mid-nineteenth century. Her visit to the now private and protected site, which has never been altered or replanted since its origins, reveals an extraordinary landscape—the relic of what Valcour Aime created, slowly overwhelmed by nature. The essay-like stories brim with insights and observations about everything from the fire that razed The Cottage plantation to the failed attempts to salvage the reproduction of the seventeenth–century French warship Le Pelican from the bottom of the Mississippi. River Road Rambler takes us along to River Road treasures, linking us to both past and present and bringing some delightful and unexpected surprises in the process.

River Road Rambler Returns

Author : Mary Ann Sternberg
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807169293
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book River Road Rambler Returns written by Mary Ann Sternberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In River Road Rambler Returns: More Curiosities along Louisiana’s Historic Byway, Mary Ann Sternberg follows up her successful River Road Rambler with new delightful histories from Louisiana’s most famous route. Her latest explorations include a trip on a towboat as it pushes a fleet of barges down the river; the true story behind the Sunshine Bridge, fondly called the Bridge to Nowhere; a tour of one of the last working sugar mills along the River Road; stories about how two iconic plantation houses were saved; and much more. Well researched and engagingly written, River Road Rambler Returns provides keen observations on unappreciated places and offers rich histories of unusual attractions along the winding road that lines the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge.

River Road Rambler

Author : Mary Ann Sternberg
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807150797
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book River Road Rambler written by Mary Ann Sternberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Author Mary Ann Sternberg has spent over two decades exploring this richly historic corridor, uncovering intriguing and often underappreciated places. In River Road Rambler, she presents fifteen sketches about sites along this scenic route. From familiar stops, such as the National Hansen’s Disease Center Museum at Carville, with its octogenarian guide, and the sui generis perique tobacco area of St. James Parish to the less well-noted yet highly distinctive Our Lady of Lourdes grotto in Convent and the gradually disappearing Colonial Sugars Historic District, Sternberg presents a new perspective on some of the region’s most colorful places. While many of the places remain easily accessible to any River Road rambler, Sternberg also presents others closed to the public, giving armchair travelers an introduction to these otherwise unreachable attractions. Throughout, Sternberg captures the ambiance of her surroundings with a clear, engaging, and sometimes quirky examination of the relationships between past and present. In a poignant piece on the Valcour Aime garden, for example, she delves into the history of this lavish, nationally acclaimed planter’s garden, created and abandoned in the mid-nineteenth century. Her visit to the now private and protected site, which has never been altered or replanted since its origins, reveals an extraordinary landscape—the relic of what Valcour Aime created, slowly overwhelmed by nature. The essay-like stories brim with insights and observations about everything from the fire that razed The Cottage plantation to the failed attempts to salvage the reproduction of the seventeenth–century French warship Le Pelican from the bottom of the Mississippi. River Road Rambler takes us along to River Road treasures, linking us to both past and present and bringing some delightful and unexpected surprises in the process.

Along the River Road

Author : Mary Ann Sternberg
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807150649
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Along the River Road written by Mary Ann Sternberg and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana's River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked destinations. Featuring background information about the area and a detailed guided tour -- upriver on the east bank and downriver along the west -- the book gives an overview of the River Road, serving as an accessible and definitive companion to exploring the corridor. Sternberg's abiding appreciation of the area's allure, garnered over twenty years, produces a must-have travel companion to a place that far exceeds its common reputation as only a parade of elegant antebellum mansions. In this new edition, she again encourages travelers to experience the many treasures of this wondrous byway for themselves, so they too can see how much it has changed over the past decade.

St Croix River Road Ramblings

Author : Russell B. Hanson
Publisher : Russell B. Hanson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book St Croix River Road Ramblings written by Russell B. Hanson and published by Russell B. Hanson. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the backwoods by a 4th generation St Croix River Valley resident. Farm, hunting, local history, nostalgia laced with subtle humor and wit.

The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII.

Author : Charles Joseph Latrobe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book The Rambler in North America: MDCCCXXXII-MDCCCXXXIII. written by Charles Joseph Latrobe and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

River Road Ramblings 2011

Author : Russell Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781468106411
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book River Road Ramblings 2011 written by Russell Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humorous stories from the backwoods of NW Wisconsin as told by the River Road Rambler.

Diary of a First Street Rambler

Author : Ralph E. Stone
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1490856587
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Diary of a First Street Rambler written by Ralph E. Stone and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was a time before television sets, Big Macs, video games, and Harry Potter. The Japanese had bombed our naval base at Pearl Harbor. Older brothers, uncles and even fathers were drafted into the Armed Forces. Gene Autry was busy riding the range. Batman and Robin kept our cities safe, and Tarzan swung from vines in a jungle habitat. The magic of radio kept imaginative minds occupied with the adventures of Superman and the Lone Ranger. In spite of the hardships of World War II, it was a marvelous adventure to be a boy growing up in a multicultural Pennsylvania steel town. Join Ralphie and his First Street Rambler teammates "Heads" Pinasko, "Half-Pint" Hayes, Jonesy. and "Jay Boy" Husher in their adventures as they built their own ball fields, swam in sulfur creeks, raided cherry trees and cabbage patches, shined shoes on street corners, and made their own sling shots, go carts and rubber band guns! If you lived during that era, you will find joy in revisiting a past which has long disappeared. If you missed out on those cherished years of a bygone era, you are in for a delightful history lesson!

The Rambler in North America: 1832-1833

Author : Charles Joseph Latrobe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rambler in North America: 1832-1833 written by Charles Joseph Latrobe and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories of the Trade River Valley I

Author :
Publisher : Russell B. Hanson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stories of the Trade River Valley I written by and published by Russell B. Hanson. This book was released on with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Murder in the Bayou Boneyard

Author : Ellen Byron
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1643854615
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Bayou Boneyard written by Ellen Byron and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maggie Crozat has the Halloween heebie-jeebies in USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award-winning author Ellen Byron's howlingly funny sixth Cajun Country mystery. Maggie Crozat, proprietor of a historic Cajun Country B&B, prefers to let the good times roll. But hard times rock her hostelry when a new cell phone app makes it easy for locals to rent their spare rooms to tourists. With October--and Halloween--approaching, she conjures up a witch-crafty marketing scheme to draw visitors to Pelican, Louisiana. Five local plantation B&Bs host "Pelican's Spooky Past" packages, featuring regional crafts, unique menus, and a pet costume parade. Topping it off, the derelict Dupois cemetery is the suitably sepulchral setting for the spine-chilling play Resurrection of a Spirit. But all the witchcraft has inevitably conjured something: her B&B guests are being terrified out of town by sightings of the legendary rougarou, a cross between a werewolf and vampire. When, in the Dupois cemetery, someone costumed as a rougarou stumbles onstage during the play--and promptly gives up the ghost, the rougarou mask having been poisoned with strychnine, Maggie is on the case. But as more murders stack up, Maggie fears that Pelican's spooky past has nothing on its bloodcurdling present.

The Rambler's Handbook

Author : The Ramblers' Association
Publisher : Greenfinch
ISBN 13 : 1529421454
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book The Rambler's Handbook written by The Ramblers' Association and published by Greenfinch. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the best of Britain's rambles, all year round. Britain is brimming with stunning walks, and this go-to guide sets out our 40 favourite routes around the UK. Arranged by season, each walk includes detailed route instructions, a map, and notes about landmarks and wildlife to keep an eye out for. Amble through bluebell-carpeted West Country woodlands in spring, and explore North Yorkshire's limestone slopes ablaze with wildflowers in early summer. Experience the fiery autumnal hues of the Wye Valley forest, or take a winter walk to see the fallow deer in Richmond Park. We've included a beautiful selection of varied walks all over the UK, from short country strolls to challenging hill hikes, gentle woodland wanders to breathtaking cliff-path adventures, there are routes to cater for all levels of fitness and experience. So, pack your bag, grab your boots and join us for a ramble around our beautiful landscape.

The St Croix River Road

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The St Croix River Road written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Road Running Southward

Author : Dan Chapman
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1642831948
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book A Road Running Southward written by Dan Chapman and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Engaging hybrid - part lyrical travelogue, part investigative journalism and part jeremiad, all shot through with droll humor." --The Atlanta Journal Constitution In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, from Kentucky to Florida. One hundred and fifty years later, veteran Atlanta reporter Dan Chapman recreated Muir's journey to see for himself how nature has fared since Muir's time. He uses humor, keen observation, and a deep love of place to celebrate the South's natural riches. But he laments the long-simmering struggles over misused resources and seeks to discover how Southerners might balance surging population growth with protecting the natural beauty Muir found so special. A Road Running Southward is part travelogue, part environmental cri de coeur--a passionate appeal to save one of the loveliest and most biodiverse regions of the world by understanding what we have to lose if we do nothing.

St Croix River Road Ramblings 2014 Vol 1

Author : Russell Hanson
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781499309140
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book St Croix River Road Ramblings 2014 Vol 1 written by Russell Hanson and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journal of a backwoods family living along the St Croix River of NW Wisconsin. Lavishly illustrated with 100s of nature photos. This volume covers the coldest and snowiest winter in memory and takes the River Road Rambler all the way through a traditional Maple Syruping Season.

Bird Therapy

Author : Joe Harkness
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783527749
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Bird Therapy written by Joe Harkness and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2020 Wainwright Prize 'I can't remember the last book I read that I could say with absolute assurance would save lives. But this one will' Chris Packham 'Fabulously direct and truthful, filled with energy but devoid of self-pity . . . I was impressed and enchanted. Highly recommended' Stephen Fry 'Succeeds – triumphantly – in articulating with great honesty what it is like to suffer with a mental illness, and in providing strategies for coping' Mail on Sunday When Joe Harkness suffered a breakdown in 2013, he tried all the things his doctor recommended: medication helped, counselling was enlightening, and mindfulness grounded him. But nothing came close to nature, particularly birds. How had he never noticed such beauty before? Soon, every avian encounter took him one step closer to accepting who he is. The positive change in Joe's wellbeing was so profound that he started a blog to record his experience. Three years later he has become a spokesperson for the benefits of birdwatching, spreading the word everywhere from Radio 4 to Downing Street. In this groundbreaking book filled with practical advice, Joe explains the impact that birdwatching had on his life, and invites the reader to discover these extraordinary effects for themselves.

Educating the Sons of Sugar

Author : R. Eric Platt
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319662
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Educating the Sons of Sugar written by R. Eric Platt and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Louisiana French Creole sugar planters’ role in higher education and a detailed history of the only college ever constructed to serve the sugar elite The education of individual planter classes—cotton, tobacco, sugar—is rarely treated in works of southern history. Of the existing literature, higher education is typically relegated to a footnote, providing only brief glimpses into a complex instructional regime responsive to wealthy planters. R. Eric Platt’s Educating the Sons of Sugar allows for a greater focus on the mindset of French Creole sugar planters and provides a comprehensive record and analysis of a private college supported by planter wealth. Jefferson College was founded in St. James Parish in 1831, surrounded by slave-holding plantations and their cash crop, sugar cane. Creole planters (regionally known as the “ancienne population”) designed the college to impart a “genteel” liberal arts education through instruction, architecture, and geographic location. Jefferson College played host to social class rivalries (Creole, Anglo-American, and French immigrant), mirrored the revival of Catholicism in a region typified by secular mores, was subject to the “Americanization” of south Louisiana higher education, and reflected the ancienne population’s decline as Louisiana’s ruling population. Resulting from loss of funds, the college closed in 1848. It opened and closed three more times under varying administrations (French immigrant, private sugar planter, and Catholic/Marist) before its final closure in 1927 due to educational competition, curricular intransigence, and the 1927 Mississippi River flood. In 1931, the campus was purchased by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and reopened as a silent religious retreat. It continues to function to this day as the Manresa House of Retreats. While in existence, Jefferson College was a social thermometer for the white French Creole sugar planter ethos that instilled the “sons of sugar” with a cultural heritage resonant of a region typified by the management of plantations, slavery, and the production of sugar.