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Author : Dan Manoyan
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Men of Granite written by Dan Manoyan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Granite City High School team that won the 1940 Illinois High School Association championship.
Author : Duane E. Shaffer
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570037511
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (375 download)
Download or read book Men of Granite written by Duane E. Shaffer and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Men of Granite is a thorough history of New Hampshire combat troops in the years before and during the Civil War. Focusing On the day-to-day experiences of the common soldier and his reasons for taking up the fight against the Confederacy, Shaffer has mined myriad primary sources to draw together the experiences of all of the state's regiments and units into this single, cohesive volume." "Further enhanced by twenty illustrations and twelve maps, Shaffer's detailed survey reinserts the story of New Hampshire forces into the annals of Civil War history and, through frequent quotation of soldiers' own accounts, gives voice to the motivations and daily experiences of determined Union forces from the Granite State."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jim Fiddes
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750991186
Total Pages : 647 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Granite Men written by Jim Fiddes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 647 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of north-east Scotland was the engine that built civilisations. As early as the sixteenth century, granite from Aberdeen and its vicinities was building castles. In the heyday of the mid-nineteenth century, the granite men of the North East hewed this material from the bowels of the earth and used it to fashion the iconic structures that defined the age. It paved the streets and embankments of London. It was used to build bridges over the Thames. It was carved into monuments for kings and commoners not only in Britain but all over the world. None of it possible without the men that toiled in those quarries and yards. This is the story of those granite men and their industry.
Author : Dan Manoyan
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ISBN 13 : 9781434342690
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Men of Granite written by Dan Manoyan and published by . This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any resemblance of the hardscrabble Southern Illinois community of Granite City, with its teeming, carbon-belching steel mills, to Heaven, is purely coincidental. But it looked like the Pearlie Gates to the Hungarian, Armenian, Yugoslavian and Macedonian immigrants, who left behind genocide and oppression, intent on building a better life for their families. Perceptions die hard and the impression of the inhabitants of the Lincoln Place ghetto, the wrong side of the Granite City tracks, was not a good one. Enter the Men of Granite. Athletics can be a powerful agent for change in society and the weapon of choice for a determined group of young men from Lincoln Place was basketball. They were weaned on the sport at the Lincoln Place Center, a settlement house built by their parents with materials provided by the steel mills. They mastered the game by playing it, day after day, hour after hour. They learned discipline at the hands of the master, bespectacled mighty-mite Sophia Prather, a former school teacher who considered her work at Lincoln Place Center a higher calling. Although the sons of Lincoln Place Center played the game at a high skill level, their ascension to the Granite City High School basketball team wasn't a given. The old school perception was that basketball was an American game and foreigners didn't have the essentials necessary to succeed. It took an athlete with the stature of Andy Phillip, born Andras Fulop of sturdy Hungarian stock, to debunk that notion. Phillip, who would go on to star for the University of Illinois' Whiz Kids and play 11 years in the NBA, was a Granite City starter from the time he was a sophomore. He opened the eyes of Granite City'sbasketball coach, and eventually opened doors to the untapped wealth of basketball talent from Lincoln Place. By Phillip's senior year, all five starters - the Hungarian, two Armenians, a Yugoslav and a Macedonian - were products of Lincoln Place. They were an unorthodox and superstitious lot - running plays in Armenian to confuse opponents among other things - but their steely resolve and dedication to teamwork made them champions. They became the first team in Illinois High School history to suffer a tournament loss and emerge as the state champions. To do that, the Warriors overcame deficits after three quarters in their quarter-final, semi-final and championship encounters. Their hard-knocks background prepared them well to be the quintessential comeback kids of high school sports. Basketball was only a game for the Men of Granite, but they played it well.
Author : Mari Tomasi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781881535461
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (354 download)
Download or read book Men Against Granite written by Mari Tomasi and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection of 55 (from more than 120 original) interviews originally conducted 1938-1940 as part of the Federal Writers' Project in Vermont.
Author : Brendan McDonough
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0316308153
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Granite Mountain written by Brendan McDonough and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. Despite the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's firm but loving encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and dedication, going on to successfully battle a number of blazes and eventually win the confidence of the men he came to call his brothers. Then, on June 30, 2013, while McDonough--"Donut" as he'd been dubbed by his team--served as lookout, they confronted a freak, 3,000-degree inferno in nearby Yarnell, Arizona. The relentless firestorm ultimately trapped his hotshot brothers, tragically killing all 19 of them within minutes. Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks. Granite Mountain is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's story of finding his way out of the dead end of drugs, finding his purpose among the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and the minute-by-minute account of the fateful day he lost the very men who had saved him. A harrowing and redemptive tale of resilience in the face of tragedy, Granite Mountain is also a powerful reminder of the heroism of the people who put themselves in harm's way to protect us every day.
Author : Elizabeth Lowell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780786290956
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Granite Man written by Elizabeth Lowell and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariah MacKenzie returned to the family ranch determined to reclaim a life she's longed for ... and to search for a long lost gold mine in the land of her ancestors.
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Granite Cutters' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Ludwig Hoffman
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Problem of Dust Phthisis in the Granite-stone Industry written by Frederick Ludwig Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Aimee Gagnon Fogg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781478708506
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Granite Men of Henri-Chapelle written by Aimee Gagnon Fogg and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "He was all I had left."-Mother of SGT William Dierauer, KIA 11/29/44...They rest in a distant land they fought to liberate nearly 70 years ago, their lives ended by war and their stories quieted by time. For 38 New Hampshire World War Two soldiers buried in Belgium, their stories are brought to life once again in The Granite Men of Henri-Chapelle. As WWII drew to an end in 1945, the New Hampshire state legislature adopted "Live Free or Die" as the state's motto. At the same time, many families throughout the Granite state and the rest of the country prepared to welcome home their service members who had fought to preserve freedom around the world. Thirty-eight New Hampshire servicemen, however, would not be returning home. Instead, they remained in Europe, resting permanently at the sprawling 57-acre American military cemetery called Henri-Chapelle in Belgium. These are not war stories. They are an attempt to illustrate each civilian life before the war as well as capture the essence of the person behind the military rank-to allow each one an opportunity to share his life once again, a life he sacrificed in the pursuit of liberty for his fellow man. As New Hampshire's statesman Daniel Webster stated on his deathbed in 1852, "I still live." So too do the men of Henri-Chapelle in this touching and important new book.
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Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stone Cutters' Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stuart MacBride
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312940591
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Cold Granite written by Stuart MacBride and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-02 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DCI Logan McRae returns to his job in Aberdeen CID after recuperating from a stab wound and finds himself assigned to a brutal serial killer case. Martin's Press.
Author : Vermont. State Geologist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Vermont written by Vermont. State Geologist and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Vermont. Office of the State Geologist
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Report of the State Geologist on the Mineral Industries and Geology of Certain Areas of Vermont written by Vermont. Office of the State Geologist and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book American Stone Trade written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stone written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Granite written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
