Skyland The Heart Of The Shenandoah National Park

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Skyland

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Author : George F. Pollock
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789125596
Total Pages : 485 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Skyland written by George F. Pollock and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1960, this is the autobiography of George Freeman Pollock, a young Washington, D.C. man who in 1895 founded, built and managed the Skyland Resort, originally called Stony Man Camp, in Virginia. “The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, separating the eastern or Piedmont and Tidewater sections from the Shenandoah Valley, commence at the south side of the gap at Harper’s Ferry. Thence, stretching out in a southwestwardly direction, they become substantially higher near Front Royal (at the beginning of the Shenandoah National Park) and further on in the Park, in the vicinity of Sperryville to the east and Luray to the west, they reach an apex in lofty Hawksbill Mountain and in the slightly lower though more imposing Stony Man Mountain. “In 1886, fifty years before the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park, a young man came to Stony Man Mountain and in 1894 (on one of its shoulders, a plateau) he founded a summer resort. Soon known far and wide as ‘Skyland,’ this resort was and, to a degree, still is the heart of Stony Man Mountain as well as of the area surrounding it and until 1937, the young man (he never grew old) was the soul of Skyland.”—STUART E. BROWN, JR.

Hollow Folk

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Author : Mandel Sherman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hollow Folk written by Mandel Sherman and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Colvin hollow, Needles hollow, Oakton hollow, Rigby hollow and Briarsville in the Blue Ridge.

A Year in the National Parks

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Author : Stefanie Payne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692926789
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book A Year in the National Parks written by Stefanie Payne and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.

Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes

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Author : Marc Epstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190215275
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes written by Marc Epstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 26, 1924, the ground collapsed beneath a truck in a back alley in Washington, D.C., revealing a mysterious underground labyrinth. In spite of wild speculations, the tunnel was not the work of German spies, but rather an aging, eccentric Smithsonian scientist named Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. While Dyar's covert tunneling habits may seem far-fetched, they were merely one of many oddities in Dyar's unbelievable life. For the first time, insect biosystematist Marc E. Epstein presents a complete account of Dyar's life story. Dyar, one of the most influential biologists of the twentieth century, focused his entomological career on building natural classifications of various groups of insects. His revolutionary approach to taxonomy, which examined both larval and adult stages of insects, brought about major changes in the scientific community's understanding of natural relationships and insect systematics. He was also the father of what came to be known as Dyar's Law, a pragmatic method to standardize information on insect larval stages as they grow. Over the course of his illustrious career at the U.S. National Museum, Smithsonian Institution from 1897-1929, Dyar named over 3,000 species, established the "List of North American Lepidoptera," an unrivaled catalog of moths and butterflies, and built one of the nation's premier lepidoptera and mosquito collections. However, Dyar's scientific accomplishments are a mere component of this remarkable biography. Epstein offers an account of Dyar's complicated personal life, from his feuds with fellow entomologists to the scandalous revelation that he was married to two wives at the same time. Epstein also chronicles Dyar's exploration of the Baha'i faith, his extensive travels, his innumerable works of unpublished fiction, and the loss of his wealth from bad investments. Comprehensive and engaging, Moths, Myths, and Mosquitoes will delight entomologists and historians alike, as well as anyone interested in exploring the zany life of one of America's virtually unknown scientific geniuses.

American Forests and Forest Life

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book American Forests and Forest Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shenandoah

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Author : Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803265395
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Shenandoah written by Sue Eisenfeld and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park. With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death,” and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park—a relationship she would not have without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes. Purchase the audio edition.

The Blue Ridge

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Author : E. J. Wilhelm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book The Blue Ridge written by E. J. Wilhelm and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Managing the Mountains

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Author : Sara M. Gregg
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030014220X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Managing the Mountains written by Sara M. Gregg and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have long viewed the massive reshaping of the American landscape during the New Deal era as unprecedented. This book uncovers the early twentieth-century history rich with precedents for the New Deal in forest, park, and agricultural policy. Sara M. Gregg explores the redevelopment of the Appalachian Mountains from the 1910s through the 1930s, finding in this region a changing paradigm of land use planning that laid the groundwork for the national New Deal. Through an intensive analysis of federal planning in Virginia and Vermont, Gregg contextualizes the expansion of the federal government through land use planning and highlights the deep intellectual roots of federal conservation policy.

Natural Resources Report

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Natural Resources Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage

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Author : Ann E. Denkler
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739119923
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage written by Ann E. Denkler and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage examines the complex web of public history, race, cultural identity, and tourism in Luray, Virginia, a rural Southern town. The 'texts' associated with this town's public history_tourist brochures, promotional narratives, historic homes, memorials, and monuments_are devoted to the founding eighteenth-century families and Confederate soldiers in Luray's past, but they also marginalize the history and heritage of African Americans and American Indians, and nearly obliterate the history of women in this region. Thus, the public history does not reflect the actual history of this town. A close look at one town helps to debunk the ideas and ideologies of the existence of a monolithic 'South', since the term could mean Mississippi, North Carolina, or somewhere-in-between. Luray and the Shenandoah Valley, with their distinctive geographical, economical, architectural, and cultural history can boast of its own discrete 'southern' identity. The book reveals how African-American texts and history reveal contributions to the town of Luray and the Shenandoah Valley region. The book studies the 'Ol' Slave Auction Block', a controversial public history site that subverts the white, hegemonic heritage of the town. Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage is groundbreaking in its study of African-American tourism.

Women and Literacy

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Author : Beth Daniell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000149455
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Women and Literacy written by Beth Daniell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-17 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Path-breaking research on women and literacy in the past decade established conventions and advanced innovative methods that push the making of knowledge into new spheres of inquiry. Taking these accomplishments as a point of departure, this volume emphasizes the diversity—of approaches and subjects—that characterizes the next generation of research on women and literacy. It builds on and critiques scholarship in literacy studies, composition studies, rhetorical theory, gender studies, postcolonial theory, and cultural studies to open new venues for future research. Contributors discuss what literacy is—more precisely, what literacies are—but their strongest interest is in documenting and theorizing women’s lived experience of these literacies, with particular attention to: the diversity of women’s literacies within the U.S., including but not limited to the varying relations that exist among women, literacy, economic position, class, race, sexuality, and education; relations among women, literacy, and economic contexts in the U.S. and abroad, including but not limited to changes in women’s private and domestic literacies, the evolution of technologies of literacy, and women’s experience of the commodification of literacies; and emergent roles of women and literacy in a globally interdependent world. This broad, significant work is a must-read for researchers and graduate students across the fields of literacy studies, composition studies, rhetorical theory, and gender studies.

The Anguish of Displacement

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Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926285
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book The Anguish of Displacement written by Katrina M. Powell and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes a counternarrative to Shenandoah National Park official history, using 300 letters in park archives written by families who were displaced upon the creation of the national park, authorized by Congress in 1926. Using this significant, newly catalogued corpus of letters, Powell reveals the many facets of the poor, disadvantaged writers, who took up letter writing to address the powerful park bureaucracy, despite their educational disadvantages. They wrote to resist the rhetorics used to describe them and created their own representations through their letters.

Backroads from the Beltway

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Author : Chuck Blackley, Pat Blackley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781610603461
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Backroads from the Beltway written by Chuck Blackley, Pat Blackley and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pure America

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Author : Elizabeth Catte
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1953368050
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (533 download)

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Download or read book Pure America written by Elizabeth Catte and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-02 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a "riveting and tightly argued" history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte. Between 1927 and 1979

Appalachian Trail Names

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Author : David Lillard
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811726726
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Appalachian Trail Names written by David Lillard and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise, alphabetical, backpack-friendly guide explains the origins of some 1100 place names hikers come across as they make their way along the Appalachian Trail. Filled with fascinating facts, surprising stories, and colourful trivia, it also offers insight into the AT's long and legendary history, as well as the history of the wilderness preservation movement, and of the country itself.

Parks & Recreation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Parks & Recreation written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Trout Fishing in the Shenandoah National Park

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Author : Harry W. Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trout Fishing in the Shenandoah National Park written by Harry W. Murray and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: