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Book Synopsis Rockford Memories by : Pat Cunningham
Download or read book Rockford Memories written by Pat Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of "Rockford Memories," a photograph album of the history of the Rockford, Illinois, area covering the years between 1940 and 1970. "As with our first edition, this photographic history of Rockford captures the people and places, the news and the lives of those who shaped the Rock River Valley. There are hundreds of photos shared by our readers and our partner, Midway Village Museum. Dozens more come from the Rockford Register Star archives. --From foreword, p. 3.
Book Synopsis Rockford Memories by : Pat Cunningham
Download or read book Rockford Memories written by Pat Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In these pages are family portraits from family albums. There are photos of news events decades ago when Rockford and the Rock River Valley were little more than the 'ford on the Rock River.' And, there are hundreds of photos of our history -- our families -- from our readers, from our newspaper archives, and from our partner, Midway Village & Museum Center. Over several days in September 2007, dozens of local families shared hundreds of historical photos for this book." -- from foreword, p. 5.
Book Synopsis Rockford, a Harvest of Memories by : Rockford Area Historical Society (Rockford, Minn.)
Download or read book Rockford, a Harvest of Memories written by Rockford Area Historical Society (Rockford, Minn.) and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Memories, Walnut Street U.S.O., Rockford, Illinois by : Walnut Street USO Club (Rockford, Ill.)
Download or read book Memories, Walnut Street U.S.O., Rockford, Illinois written by Walnut Street USO Club (Rockford, Ill.) and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Practice of Remembering by : Casey Tygrett
Download or read book The Practice of Remembering written by Casey Tygrett and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we hold and carry our memories—good and bad—is a part of what forms us spiritually. In this way we have a common bond with the people of Scripture who also had a sensory life. Exploring the power of memory, Casey Tygrett offers biblical texts and practices to guide us in bringing our memories to God for spiritual transformation.
Book Synopsis We Were the All-American Girls by : Jim Sargent
Download or read book We Were the All-American Girls written by Jim Sargent and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are 42 interviews with women who competed in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Each interview features data about the player, a short summary of her athletic career, and the player's recollections. A brief history covers the many changes as the league evolved from underhand pitching with a 12-inch circumference ball in 1943 to overhand pitching, adopted in 1948, through the circuit's final year, 1954, when a regulation baseball was introduced. The interviews range from 1995 to 2012 and reveal details of particular games, highlights of individual careers, the camaraderie of teammates, opponents and fans, and the impact the League made on their lives. Several players recall how the 1992 movie A League of Their Own brought the historic All-American League back to life almost 40 years after the final game was played.
Download or read book Loves Park written by Nicole C. Lindsay and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loves Park got its name from Malcolm A. Love, a Rockford industrialist and alderman who, in 1901, puchased 236 acres of land along the east bank of the Rock River just a few miles north of Rockford. Love used the property as a private retreat. Soon therafter, a railroad was built through the area, and in the decades that followed, residences and businesses started to arrive. The city incorporated in 1947 with a population of 4,500. Once it was established, all the elements of a modern community followed, including police and fire departments, a library, churches, gas stations, restaurants, and other businesses. Since then, the city of almost 24,000 has continued to prosper and is now home to the annual Memorial Day Young at Heart Festival, which brings in people from all across northern Illinois, and RiverHawks Stadium, home of the Rockford Riverhawks Frontier League baseball team.
Book Synopsis Memory's Daughters by : Susan Stabile
Download or read book Memory's Daughters written by Susan Stabile and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A renowned literary coterie in eighteenth-century Philadelphia—Elizabeth Fergusson, Hannah Griffitts, Deborah Logan, Annis Stockton, and Susanna Wright—wrote and exchanged thousands of poems and maintained elaborate handwritten commonplace books of memorabilia. Through their creativity and celebrated hospitality, they initiated a salon culture in their great country houses in the Delaware Valley. In this stunningly original and heavily illustrated book, Susan M. Stabile shows that these female writers sought to memorialize their lives and aesthetic experience—a purpose that stands in marked contrast to the civic concerns of male authors in the republican era. Drawing equally on material culture and literary history, Stabile discusses how the group used their writings to explore and at times replicate the arrangement of their material possessions, including desks, writing paraphernalia, mirrors, miniatures, beds, and coffins. As she reconstructs the poetics of memory that informed the women's lives and structured their manuscripts, Stabile focuses on vernacular architecture, penmanship, souvenir collecting, and mourning. Empirically rich and nuanced in its readings of different kinds of artifacts, this engaging work tells of the erasure of the women's lives from the national memory as the feminine aesthetic of scribal publication was overshadowed by the proliferating print culture of late eighteenth-century America.
Download or read book Look at Me written by Jennifer Egan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied. With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casualties of our infatuation with the image. There’s a deceptively plain teenaged girl embarking on a dangerous secret life, an alcoholic private eye, and an enigmatic stranger who changes names and accents as he prepares an apocalyptic blow against American society. As these narratives inexorably converge, Look at Me becomes a coolly mesmerizing intellectual thriller of identity and imposture.
Book Synopsis Homeland Insecurity by : Onion Editors
Download or read book Homeland Insecurity written by Onion Editors and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot off the reprint presses! Onion fans hear this! Homeland Insecurity is the largest collection of award-winning journalism from America’s Finest News Source ever released, and that means you must buy it! Featuring every brilliantly biting article printed in The Onion between November 2004 and December 2005, a time in our country’s history ripe for further examination by America’s Finest News Source, Homeland Insecurity collects all the news reporting you were too lazy to read when it first appeared, now delivered in a handy single volume that will fit perfectly on the bookshelf of your dorm, ward, or cell. Homeland Insecurity is Volume 17 in the always bestselling and always entertaining Onion series. The Onion is the world’s most popular humor publication, with more than 3.8 million weekly visitors to its website (theonion.com) and a print circulation of more than 500,000. More than a million copies of its various books have been sold to date, beginning with Our Dumb Century, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller and winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Book Synopsis The Interactive Cemetery by : Jolene Little
Download or read book The Interactive Cemetery written by Jolene Little and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-05-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former model Crystal Stevens and her partner, Dusty, have created a holographic Halloween event. There is only one problem: the event location is a cemetery. Admired and pursued by many, only one man tempts her, Detective Chance Cooper. Sparks fly and things heat up when the two meet. To help friends and to raise money for charity, Crystal sings at events. Sometimes this requires her to become her alter ego, the angel in black. Naturally intuitive, she has more than one reason to visit the haven of eternal rest. Detective Cooper is investigating serial murders near the cemetery. It becomes a hands-on investigation when the killer targets Crystal. Swearing to protect her, he decides that she will require his close personal attention. His only problem is, how do you protect a stubborn, independent woman that every man desires including himself? Her partner says she has secrets. Can he uncover them in time to stop a serial killer and capture her heart?
Book Synopsis Memories of Andrew Simon Cutler by : Mrs. Mary J. Ball Cutler
Download or read book Memories of Andrew Simon Cutler written by Mrs. Mary J. Ball Cutler and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rockford Remembrances by : Perry Green
Download or read book Rockford Remembrances written by Perry Green and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description This is a book written by people that grew up in and around Rockford and depict events and tales that they remember. Some depict people in our community that made it unique. Some tell of events and happenings that you almost wouldn't believe unless you were there. Some events happened outside Rockford but are told by Rockford residents including a New York City transplant! Rockford was a wonderful place to live and grow up in. The town like many small towns across the South and much of the country isn't even a shadow of it's former self and that's a shame. This book hopes to preserve some of the times and fond memories before we like the town are no more. Chopped off fingers, fast cars, courthouse antics and just everyday life.
Book Synopsis Unforgettable Memories 1917 - 2001 by : Joe Zimmerman
Download or read book Unforgettable Memories 1917 - 2001 written by Joe Zimmerman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I was 78 years old when my wife challenged me to write my autobiography. So I sat down at the table in the family room. I had a tablet, a pencil, an eraser and a dictionary. Then i sat there and said to myself this is crazy, I have no writing skills what so ever and just an elementary school education. So now what do I do? But I did have something that was invaluable and that was a memory that I could drawl on to tell my story. This is not an ordinary autobiography. It is a series of words and pictures that in some cased are so vivid that the reader actually has the feeling that they have become part of the story. So now I invite you to come with me to share all of these unforgettable memories.
Book Synopsis My Adventure: an Encounter with Life by : William Millard
Download or read book My Adventure: an Encounter with Life written by William Millard and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bill Millard is a commercial attorney with an international law firm in Dallas, Texas, and life could not be better. On top of his lucrative job, he is married with two wonderful children, lives in a nice neighborhood with great schools, and is a proud Texan. But his world comes crashing down as his health starts to decline. At first, it’s not clear what is wrong, but then he is diagnosed with several near-fatal diseases, including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which is a progressive nervous system disease that causes a loss of muscle control. He loses his family, career, home, and health. After a period in a comatose state, he wakes up as a quadriplegic, suffering severe seizures. He is unable to eat, drink, swallow, speak, stand, breathe without respiratory care, or carry on life as he knew it. In this inspiring memoir, Millard reveals how he coped with his diagnosis and made a miraculous recovery, spending seven-plus years fighting for his life in long-term health care facilities, physical rehabilitation facilities, and other centers. Millard’s story also offers a unique first-hand patient’s perspective as to what it is like to live in skilled and senior healthcare facilities today, containing many observations on what he thinks makes a better facility for patients and their families.
Book Synopsis Rockford's Forgotten Driving Park: Racing, Politics & Circuses by : Amanda Becker
Download or read book Rockford's Forgotten Driving Park: Racing, Politics & Circuses written by Amanda Becker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local thrill-seekers at the turn of the century knew that all the action was at the Driving Park. But few today know the drama buried beneath a West End subdivision. At the height of the horse racing craze after the Civil War, prominent Rockford businessmen raised $25,000 to build a harness racetrack there in 1890 (the name refers to the person in the cart pulled by a horse--the driver). The versatile venue evolved to stay relevant, weathering the 1893 financial panic and welcoming bicycle mania. Events ranged from high school track meets to early auto racing. Folks saw a soccer game one week and a circus the next. Controversy erupted at times, from gambling and drinking to a murder and a KKK rally. Amanda Becker reveals this colorful story nearly forgotten since 1938.
Download or read book Distance Memories written by Scott Ludwig and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ive been around the block a few times. Over half a million times, actually. Assuming a block is approximately 100 yards long and 100 yards wide, running just over 130,000 lifetime miles equates to a few more than 500,000 times around the block. So yeah, Ive been around the block a few times. Ive had my share of ups and downs. The Boston Marathon, the Badwater Ultramarathon and having whatever it takes to run every single day since November 30, 1978 would fall into the former; an aging body, injuries, andwell, to be totally honest falling down while running much too often these days would fall into the latter. But its been a good, long run and I wouldnt have wanted it any other way. My wife Cindy believes the 2003 Badwater Ultramarathon signaled the beginning of my declining health and running ability. I beg to differ: I believe it was my (last place, and darn proud of it) finish in the 2006 Western States Endurance Run that catapulted me into the downside of my running career. However, I have no regrets. As I said earlier its been a good, long run and I wouldnt have wanted it any other way. Besides, if it had been any other way I wouldnt have had the many tales you will find in this book that you, quite frankly, could not possibly find anywhere else. These are my stories frommy experiencesand my perspectives on running as well as life. Theyre all absolutely true. Theyre all brutally honest. Theyre all from the heart. Most of all, theyre all mine. Scott Ludwig, 2013
