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Williamsburg Before and After

Author : George Humphrey Yetter
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879350772
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Williamsburg Before and After written by George Humphrey Yetter and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1988 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Yetter's informative text describes why Williamsburg was founded and flourished during the colonial period. He traces the deterioration that followed when the capital moved to Richmond in 1780, and concludes with the exciting story of how Williamsburg's past was saved. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps capture "pre-restoration" Williamsburg. Lovely color "after" photographs show that the vision and dream have been fulfilled.

Creating Colonial Williamsburg

Author : Anders Greenspan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469625679
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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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.

Williamsburg, Updated Edition

Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1646936779
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Williamsburg, Updated Edition written by Tim McNeese and published by Infobase Holdings, Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Settled in 1633, Williamsburg was first known as Middle Plantation because it was located between the James and York rivers. In 1693, the nation's second-oldest institution of higher education, the College of William and Mary, was founded there. In 1699, the settlement became the capital of England's largest and richest colony, Virginia. These are just some of the many fascinating facts found in Williamsburg. This resourceful volume, filled with detailed historical information on the people and events surrounding the development of this colony, is an integral part of the new Colonial Settlements in America set.

1776

Author : K. M. Kostyal
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426305176
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book 1776 written by K. M. Kostyal and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find yourself transported to Williamsburg in the days of the Revolution See the city at war through the eyes of everyday citizens for an exciting new perspective on the historic year of 1776. The latest in the popular "New Look" line of history titles, K.M. Kostyal's 1776: A New Look at Revolutionary Williamsburg combines new scholarship with rare, powerful photographs to take readers behind the scenes at Colonial Williamsburg. Stunning re-enactment photographs of America's "Revolutionary City" brings history vividly to life: The narrative goes beyond the story of the founding fathers to give a close-up look at how the war for independence played out for ordinary citizens such as women, blacksmiths, and enslaved people. Colonial Williamsburg scholars shed fresh light on this vital era in our history with the most recent research and analysis. The book's lively design combines with the compelling photography of modern-day Williamsburg's street theater and historic interpretation to transport readers back to the heyday of colonial times. Scenes from around the city include a milliner forced to pack up shop, children at a play in a courtyard next to soldiers on patrol, and slaves wrenched from family and friends as they leave town with their Loyalist masters. This exciting, innovative book takes a new look at a familiar topic through the lives of the men and women who would claim America for their own and declare themselves its first citizens. National Geographic supports K-12 educators with ELA Common Core Resources. Visit www.natgeoed.org/commoncore for more information.

Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg

Author : Michael Olmert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879351847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Official Guide to Colonial Williamsburg written by Michael Olmert and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extensive guide to Colonial Williamsburg contains more than one hundred color photographs of the activities and attractions available in Virginia's restored colonial capital. Color-coded maps identify things to see and do and locate places to shop and dine. Building-by-building drawings help people tour easily. Short biographies about eighteenth-century inhabitants bring colonial society alive. Information about the museums and modern lodging and dining opportunities is included.

Restoring Williamsburg

Author : George Humphrey Yetter
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300248350
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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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.

The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg

Author : M. Kent Brinkley
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879351588
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg written by M. Kent Brinkley and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1996 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""The Gardens of Colonial Williamsburg" features twenty gardens in Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. Stunning photography complements the text and detailed garden plans identify the plantings in each garden. Experience the sights, colors, and textures found in Colonial Williamsburg's gardens each season of the year."--Book jacket.

Entertaining Ideas from Williamsburg

Author : Susan Hight Rountree
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879350956
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Entertaining Ideas from Williamsburg written by Susan Hight Rountree and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1993 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the heritage of Virginia hospitality, this book contains a treasure trove of sugges- tions and ow-tos for commemorating special occassions throughout the year. From a winter dinner to a spring wedding, this beautiful book, provides a wealth of flower-arranging, decorating, handicraft, and cooking ideas.

A Haunting in Williamsburg

Author : Lou Kassem
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 038075892X
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book A Haunting in Williamsburg written by Lou Kassem and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1990 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Staying in Colonial Williamsburg in a house once owned by her ancestors, Jayne met an old family ghost who was haunted by a terrible wrong she had done over 200 years ago and she begged Jayne to help her set it right.

Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg

Author : Susan Hight Rountree
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879350857
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book Christmas Decorations from Williamsburg written by Susan Hight Rountree and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1991 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb photography, descriptive text, and 27 charming color drawings present ideas and how-to's for creating wreaths, cones, swags, roping, and other holiday decorations for mantels, stairways, windows, and tables.

Colonial Williamsburg Christmas

Author : The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493044524
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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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.

The Brooklyn Novels

Author : Daniel Fuchs
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781574232103
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Brooklyn Novels written by Daniel Fuchs and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three classic novels in one volume: Summer in Williamsburg (1934), Homage to Blenholt (1936), and Low Company (1937). Fuchs wrote, "I devoted myself simply to the tenement: the life in the hallways, the commotion at the dumbwaiters, the assortment of characters in the building, their strivings and preoccupations, their troubles." These novels are as alive today as the day they were first printed, as exuberant. There are few novelists in America today who possess Fuchs's talent, his energy, his sense of life.

Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle

Author : Pamela K. Kinney
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780764337468
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (374 download)

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Book Synopsis Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle by : Pamela K. Kinney

Download or read book Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle written by Pamela K. Kinney and published by Schiffer Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a step back into ghostly history as you tour Williamsburg, Yorktown, and Jamestown in the Historic Triangle. Visit Jamestown Island where Captain John Smith and the first English colonists settled. Stroll around Yorktown and follow the same footsteps of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington as they walked along Duke of Gloucester Street. Hear odd noises and see apparitions at the Peyton Randolph House, Cornwallis's Cave, Wells's Corner, Sherwood Forest, the Rosewell Plantation, and many, many other places. Be prepared to get to know the ghosts of this Historic Triangle and its surrounding areas. They're dying for you to read their stories.

The Public Buildings of Williamsburg, Colonial Capital of Virginia

Author : Marcus Whiffen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book The Public Buildings of Williamsburg, Colonial Capital of Virginia written by Marcus Whiffen and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colonial Williamsburg

Author : Edward G. Lengel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780879352981
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Williamsburg written by Edward G. Lengel and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book, a companion to 'Colonial Williamsburg: The Guide: The Official Companion to the Historic Area,' recounts Williamsburg's 'story'--the events and circumstances that led to the town's founding and its community life and political importance up to and through the Revolutionary War. It offers a bit of postwar history as well, including Williamsburg's experience of the Civil War and the town's eventual restoration-all 301 acres of it. The history of Williamsburg is critical to the American story of who we are and how our nation came to be"--

Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition

Author : Ida Susser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199710252
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition by : Ida Susser

Download or read book Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood, Updated Edition written by Ida Susser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a three-year study of Brooklyn's Greenpoint-Williamsburg area, Norman Street is an in-depth, detailed description of life in a multi-ethnic working class neighborhood during New York City's fiscal crisis of 1975-78. Now updated with a new introduction to address the changes and events of the thirty years since the book's original publication, its lessons continue to demonstrate the impact of political and economic changes on everyday lives. Over the decades, Greenpoint-Williamsburg has become home to artists, actors, writers and young people with alternative cultural aspirations. Susser documents how these groups, in many ways, have joined with the remaining working class population to build a thriving community that is now threatened with displacement by municipal rezoning which has facilitated massive plans for new corporate investment. Increasingly prescient at a moment of economic crisis when people are again occupying public spaces in major American cities, spurred to collective action by mounting economic inequalities and the government's role in perpetuating them, Susser's study of change, action, and conflict in a neighborhood that has become emblematic of urban transformation-for better and worse-has much to say to us today.

Brooklyn!, 3rd Edition

Author : Ellen Freudenheim
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312323318
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (233 download)

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Download or read book Brooklyn!, 3rd Edition written by Ellen Freudenheim and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Society of American Travel Writers recognized Brooklyn! with a bronze award in the Best Guidebook category of the 2004 Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Competition. With nearly 2.5 million residents, kaleidoscope of cultures, and gutsy attitude, Brooklyn is the place for families, hipsters, artists, and entrepreneurs---plus emigres from abroad, the Midwest, and even Manhattan. In this, the most comprehensive guide to Brooklyn--with more than 1,500 listings--a mother-daughter research team delivers the goods on how to explore New York's most authentic borough. Perfect for the native, the tourist, or the newcomer, this updated and expanded edition of Brooklyn! includes: - Exploration: Complete rundowns of what to see and do in twenty-nine distinct neighborhoods - Food: From cheesecake and pierogis to Asian fusion and American eclectic - Nightlife: Live music, edgy clubs, casual hangouts, theaters, movies - Culture: World-class museums, theater, music, cinema, dance, art, you name it - Shopping: Vintage clothes, trendy boutiques, fresh mozzarella, Russian furs, SCUBA gear, and just about anything else you can think of - Getaways: A never-before-published list of Brooklyn B&Bs and other accommodations - Family Ideas: Activities for kids, shops for teens, and info on Brooklyn's top schools - What's New: Insights on what's changing in half a dozen popular neighborhoods