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Book Synopsis The Beautiful Matanuska Valley by : Helen Hegener
Download or read book The Beautiful Matanuska Valley written by Helen Hegener and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic exploration of Alaska's Matanuska Valley. The founding, settling, and development, details about the Valley's geography, geology, transportation, agriculture, mining, recreation, tourism, and history. Highlighted by hundreds of full-color photographs, this book showcases the many wonders of the beautiful Matanuska Valley.
Book Synopsis You are Invited to Visit the Famous Matanuska Valley, Alaska's Beautiful Farming Area by :
Download or read book You are Invited to Visit the Famous Matanuska Valley, Alaska's Beautiful Farming Area written by and published by . This book was released on 1962* with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Palmer, a Good Place to Live written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Matanuska Colony Barns by : Helen Hegener
Download or read book The Matanuska Colony Barns written by Helen Hegener and published by Northern Light Media. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 the U.S. Government transported 200 families from the Great Depression-stricken midwest to a valley of unparalleled beauty in Alaska, where they were given the chance to begin new lives as part of a federally-funded social experiment, the Matanuska Colony Project. As part of each family's farmstead, a magnificent barn was raised, a sturdy square structure 32' by 32' and soaring 32' high. Today these Colony barns are an iconic reminder of what has been called the last great pioneering adventure in America. "Anyone who travels through the eastern part of Alaska's dramatically beautiful Matanuska Valley soon finds a Colony barn enhancing the landscape. These striking Valley landmarks are the enduring legacy of an all-but-forgotten chapter in American history, when the U.S. government took a direct hand in the lives of thousands of its citizens, offering Depression-distraught farm families an opportunity to begin again in a far-off land with government financing and support. Central to every Colony farm was the barn, a core structure integral to the operation of these family farms." from the preface The Matanuska Colony Barns: The Enduring Legacy of the 1935 Matanuska Colony Project, by Helen Hegener, photographs by Eric Vercammen, Stewart Amgwert, Albert Marquez, Dave Rose, Joanie Juster, Ron Day and others. Foreword by Barbara Hecker. Introduction by James H. Fox. 140 pages, full color. ISBN 978-0-9843977-4-7. Includes Colonist families listing, maps, bibliography, resources, index.
Book Synopsis A Mighty Nice Place by : Helen E. Hegener
Download or read book A Mighty Nice Place written by Helen E. Hegener and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1935 the U.S. government took a direct hand in the future of Alaska when it offered 203 Depression-distraught farm families in Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin an opportunity to begin again in a far-off land, with government financing and support. The Matanuska Colony Project was part of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal for America, an unprecedented series of economic programs designed to provide "Relief, Recovery, and Reform" to people reeling from the Great Depression. Nearly one hundred new communities were designed and developed by Roosevelt's planners, but the largest, most expensive, and most audacious of them all was the plan to build a government-sponsored farming community in Alaska's Matanuska Valley. "A Mighty Nice Place," The History of the 1935 Matanuska Colony Project, by Helen Hegener, explains how a few visionary men convinced the planners in Washington, D.C. to extend their community-building efforts north to Alaska, and tells the story of this important chapter in Alaska's history. The remarkable photos of official A.R.R.C. photographer Willis T. Geisman documented every aspect of the venture, and they tell the true stories, hundreds of moments in time captured and preserved, a monumental achievement, and now this book brings some of his most compelling images together with the detailed history of the Matanuska Colony Project and the unique times in which such a plan was possible.
Book Synopsis History of the Matanuska Valley by : Palmer Territorial School
Download or read book History of the Matanuska Valley written by Palmer Territorial School and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Valley of Promises written by Bonnie Leon and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brought to their knees by the Great Drought of the 1930s, Will Hasper and his family give up their farm in Wisconsin to join a federal government project starting a colony of transplanted farmers in the Matanuska Valley of Alaska. However, the colonists meet resistance from earlier homesteaders in the Valley and their leader, Ray Townsend. Laurel, Will’s daughter, who put aside her own desires and dreams to follow her family to Alaska, finds herself torn between two men vying for her love—Adam, a reporter writing a story on the colony’s experiences, and Robert, a colonist who can offer Laurel the stability she needs. For the colony to survive, they must all learn to trust God’s promises.
Download or read book Visions of You written by C.Y. Bourgeois and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shelby Leight is a wise-cracking, lighthearted teenager, looking forward to a fun-filled senior year in high school. She already knows the pain of losing a loved one, but has worked her way through the grief to come out on the other side. Then, in the fall of 1975, in the sleepy, picturesque town of Palmer Alaska, the unthinkable happens. There's a serial killer on the hunt and one of Shelbys best friends has disappeared. The sudden loss of her friend in such a violent manner awakens something in her, an ability to communicate with the dead....visions. Along with this, Shelby falls in love for the first time only to discover the shocking truth about her boyfriend. Can she accept him for who what he is? Can her friends and family accept him? Shelby has a vision of the killer stalking another of her friends and is desperate to stop him before its too late. Instead of an enjoyable senior year of high school, Shelby and her friends must come to grips with life and death - and all they hold - in their quest to find a monster before he kills again.
Book Synopsis Miscellaneous by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Download or read book Miscellaneous written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Matanuska Valley Colonization Project by : Marvin Albert Halldorson
Download or read book The Matanuska Valley Colonization Project written by Marvin Albert Halldorson and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Matanuska Colony Album by : Helen Hegener
Download or read book The Matanuska Colony Album written by Helen Hegener and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 the U.S. Government transported 203 families from the Great Depression-stricken upper midwest to a valley of unparalleled beauty in Alaska, where they were given the chance to begin new lives as part of a federally-funded social experiment. Willis T. Geisman was the official photographer for the project, and his compelling images of the families, workmen, officials, landscape and more are presented in this collection of his photographs. Willis Geisman traveled to Alaska with the advance guard of officials and workmen for the project, documenting as he went, and he lived among the Matanuska Colony families from May through October, 1935, chronicling their arrival, living in the tent cities built for them, and their farms slowly taking shape over the course of the summer. He photographed the men working to build a community in the Alaskan wilderness, the children playing, the wives going about their daily chores. A line of trucks full of transient workmen setting off for a day's work, a group of children gleefully picking wild raspberries, a proud farm wife showing off her stacked cans of salmon, a farmer harvesting hay behind a team of strong horses. These are the images Willis Geisman captured, and they tell the story of one of the most interesting chapters of Alaskan - and American - history, a time when the U.S. government took a direct hand in the lives of thousands of its citizens. Today the Matanuska Valley, with picturesque Colony farms dotting the landscape, draws worldwide attention for its colorful agricultural heritage and its uniquely orchestrated history. This book of Willis Geisman's enduring photographs tells the story of that history.
Book Synopsis One Church Many Tribes by : Richard Twiss
Download or read book One Church Many Tribes written by Richard Twiss and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Columbus landed in the West Indies in 1492, Native American tribes have endured more than five centuries of abuse hypocrisy, indifference and bloodshed at the hands of the ''Christian'' white man. Despite this painful history, a number of Native Americans have found ''the Jesus Way'' and are proving to be a powerful voice for the Lord around the world. A full - blooded Lakota/Sioux whose bitterness toward whites was washed away by the blood of Christ, Richard Twiss shows that Native American Christians have much to offer the Church and can become a major force for reaching the lost. Full of wisdom, humor and passion, this book examines how the white Church can begin to break down the walls of anger, distrust and bitterness and move toward reconciliation and revival in our land.
Download or read book Moon Alaska written by Don Pitcher and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel writer and nature photographer Don Pitcher covers the best of Alaska, from fine dining in Anchorage to backpacking in Denali National Park. Pitcher also includes various travel strategies such as The Best of Alaska and Along the AlCan. Complete with details on where to view wildlife at the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge and the best spots to kayak in Prince William Sound, Moon Alaska gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
Book Synopsis The Milepost by : Alaska Northwest Publishing
Download or read book The Milepost written by Alaska Northwest Publishing and published by Alaska Northwest Books. This book was released on 1992-03 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The 1935 Matanuska Colony Project by : Helen Hegener
Download or read book The 1935 Matanuska Colony Project written by Helen Hegener and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1935 the U.S. Government transported 200 families from the Great Depression-stricken upper midwest to a valley of unparalleled beauty in Alaska, where they were given the chance to begin new lives as part of a federally-funded social experiment. The 1935 Matanuska Colony Project, subtitled "The Remarkable History of a New Deal Experiment in Alaska," shares the enduring legacy of this all-but-forgotten chapter in American history, when the U.S. government took a direct hand in the lives of thousands of its citizens, offering Depression-distraught farm families an opportunity to start over in a far-off land with government financing and support. The Matanuska Colony was not the only government rural rehabilitation project; it was in fact only one of a multitude of complex, ambitious and controversial programs initiated under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal Federal Rural Development Program, and other resettlement projects included Dyess Colony, Arkansas; Arthurdale, West Virginia; the Phoenix Homesteads in Arizona; and similar colonies in over a dozen other states. Although fraught with inevitable bureaucratic entanglements, frustrating delays, and a variety of other distractions, the Matanuska Colony actually thrived for the most part, and nearly 200 families remained to raise their families and make their permanent homes in Alaska. Highways were built, the wide Matanuska and Knik Rivers were bridged, and the town of Palmer became the center of commerce and society in the Valley. By 1948, production from the Colony Project farms provided over half of the total Alaskan agricultural products sold. Today the Matanuska Valley draws worldwide attention for its colorful agricultural heritage and its uniquely orchestrated history. This book tells the story of that history.
Book Synopsis Geologic Reconnaissance in the Matanuska and Talkeetna Basins, Alaska by : Sidney Paige
Download or read book Geologic Reconnaissance in the Matanuska and Talkeetna Basins, Alaska written by Sidney Paige and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Research and Extension Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :50 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (18 download)
Book Synopsis Alaska Land Development by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Research and Extension
Download or read book Alaska Land Development written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Research and Extension and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
