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Book Synopsis The Middle History of Haywood County by : W. Clark Medford
Download or read book The Middle History of Haywood County written by W. Clark Medford and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book of regularly connected history of Haywood County, followingThe Early History of Haywood County.
Download or read book Cripple Joe written by Donald Davis and published by Blair. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donald Davis has remarked that he "didn't learn stories, I just absorbed them" from a family of traditional storytellers that has lived on the same western North Carolina land since 1781. Considered by many to be the father of family tales, Donald turns the focus of his newest collection on his own father, Joe.As Donald reveals in the opening story, when he was 28, he mistakenly thought his father had died. Until learning of the mistake, he lamented that he'd been "too young and immature to know to ask for the stories that would have filled out his life." Given a "second chance," Donald asked those questions for the next 22 years. In this collection of 20 tender and often humorous stories--including one that tells how the elder Davis came to be called "Cripple Joe"--he shares the lessons he learned from his father. The late Wilma Dykeman wrote in an article for the New York Times, "I could have listened all morning to Donald Davis. . . . His stories often left listeners limp with laughter at the same time they struggled with a lump in the throat." If you are already a Donald Davis fan, here's his latest offering. If you have yet to discover him, here's your chance to see what all the excitement is about.
Book Synopsis Road Maps and Tour Book of Western North Carolina ... by : North Carolina Good Roads Association
Download or read book Road Maps and Tour Book of Western North Carolina ... written by North Carolina Good Roads Association and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina by : Joseph Kelly Turner
Download or read book History of Edgecombe County, North Carolina written by Joseph Kelly Turner and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Moonshiners and Prohibitionists by : Bruce E. Stewart
Download or read book Moonshiners and Prohibitionists written by Bruce E. Stewart and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol -- an integral part of daily life for many Appalachians -- was banned. In Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern Appalachia, Bruce E. Stewart chronicles the social tensions that accompanied the region's early transition from a rural to an urban-industrial economy. Stewart analyzes the dynamic relationship of the bootleggers and opponents of liquor sales in western North Carolina, as well as conflict driven by social and economic development that manifested in political discord. Stewart also explores the life of the moonshiner and the many myths that developed around hillbilly stereotypes. A welcome addition to the New Directions in Southern History series, Moonshiners and Prohibitionists addresses major economic, social, and cultural questions that are essential to the understanding of Appalachian history.
Book Synopsis Early History of Middle Tennessee by : Edward Albright
Download or read book Early History of Middle Tennessee written by Edward Albright and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine by :
Download or read book Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 890 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: January and February, 1925 volumes bound together as one.
Book Synopsis The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed by : William S. Powell
Download or read book The North Carolina Gazetteer, 2nd Ed written by William S. Powell and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The North Carolina Gazetteer first appeared to wide acclaim in 1968 and has remained an essential reference for anyone with a serious interest in the Tar Heel State, from historians to journalists, from creative writers to urban planners, from backpackers to armchair travelers. This revised and expanded edition adds approximately 1,200 new entries, bringing to nearly 21,000 the number of North Carolina cities, towns, crossroads, waterways, mountains, and other places identified here. The stories attached to place names are at the core of the book and the reason why it has stood the test of time. Some recall faraway places: Bombay, Shanghai, Moscow, Berlin. Others paint the locality as a little piece of heaven on earth: Bliss, Splendor, Sweet Home. In many cases the name derivations are unusual, sometimes wildly so: Cat Square, Huggins Hell, Tater Hill, Whynot. Telling us much about our own history in these snapshot histories of particular locales, The North Carolina Gazetteer provides an engaging, authoritative, and fully updated reference to place names from all corners of the Tar Heel State.
Download or read book Garden Creek written by Alice P. Wright and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication Presents archaeological data to explore the concept of glocalization as applied in the Hopewell world Originally coined in the context of twentieth-century business affairs, the term glocalization describes how the global circulation of products, services, or ideas requires accommodations to local conditions, and, in turn, how local conditions can significantly impact global markets and relationships. Garden Creek: The Archaeology of Interaction in Middle Woodland Appalachia presents glocalization as a concept that can help explain the dynamics of cross-cultural interaction not only in the present but also in the deep past. Alice P. Wright uses the concept of glocalization as a framework for understanding the mutual contributions of large-scale and small-scale processes to prehistoric transformations. Using geophysical surveys, excavations, and artifact analysis, Wright shows how Middle Woodland cultural contact wrought changes in religious practices, such as mound building and the crafting of ritual objects for exchange or pilgrimage. Wright presents and interprets original archaeological data from the Garden Creek site in western North Carolina as part of a larger study of the Hopewell Interaction Sphere, a well-known but poorly understood episode of cross-cultural interaction that linked communities across eastern North America during the Middle Woodland period. Although Hopewellian culture contact did not encompass the entire planet, it may have been “global” to those who experienced and created it, as it subsumed much of the world as Middle Woodland people knew it. Reimagining Hopewell as an episode of glocalization more fully accounts for the diverse communities, interests, and processes involved in this “global” network.
Book Synopsis Biographical and historical memoirs of Eastern Arkansas by :
Download or read book Biographical and historical memoirs of Eastern Arkansas written by and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1889 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising a condensed history of the state, a number of biographies of distinguished citizens of the same, a brief descriptive history of each of the counties.
Book Synopsis Taffy of Torpedo Junction by : Nell Wise Wechter
Download or read book Taffy of Torpedo Junction written by Nell Wise Wechter and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print A longtime favorite of several generations of Tar Heels, Taffy of Torpedo Junction is the thrilling adventure story of thirteen-year-old Taffy Willis, who, with the help of her pony and dog, exposes a ring of Nazi spies operating from a secluded house on Hatteras Island, North Carolina, during World War II. For readers of all ages, the book brings to life the dramatic wartime events on the Outer Banks, where German U-boats turned an area around Cape Hatteras into 'Torpedo Junction' by sinking more than sixty American vessels in just a six-month period in 1942. Taffy has been enjoyed by young and old alike since it was first published in 1957.
Book Synopsis A Standard History of Oklahoma by : Joseph Bradfield Thoburn
Download or read book A Standard History of Oklahoma written by Joseph Bradfield Thoburn and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tennessee Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Goodspeed History of Tennessee written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published 1886 in Nashville by Goodspeed Publishing Co.
Book Synopsis Making Music by : William C. Allsbrook Jr.
Download or read book Making Music written by William C. Allsbrook Jr. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The banjo has been emblematic of the Southern Appalachian Mountains since the late twentieth century. Making Music: The Banjo in a Southern Appalachian County takes a close look at the instrument and banjo players in Haywood County, North Carolina. Author William C. Allsbrook Jr., MD, presents the oral histories of thirty-two banjo players, all but two of whom were born in Haywood County. These talented musicians recount, in their own words, their earliest memories of music, and of the banjo, as well as the appeal of the banjo. They also discuss learning to play the instrument, including what it “feels like” playing the banjo, many describing occasional “flow states.” In the book, Allsbrook explores an in-home musical folkway that developed along the colonial frontier. By the mid-1800s, frontier expansion had ceased in Haywood County due to geographic barriers, but the in-home musical tradition, including the banjo, survived in largely isolated areas. Vestiges of that tradition remain to this day, although the region has undergone significant changes over the lifetimes of the musicians interviewed. As a result, the survival of the in-home tradition is not guaranteed. Readers are invited into the private lives of the banjo players and asked to consider the future of the banjo in the face of contemporary trends. The future will be shaped by how this remarkable mountain culture continues to adapt to these challenges. Still, this thriving community of banjo players represents the vibrant legacy of the banjo in Haywood County and the persistence of tradition in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry by : James R. Fleming
Download or read book The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry written by James R. Fleming and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A military history of one American Civil War battle unit based on soldiers’ correspondence, memoirs, war records, and obituaries. Here is the story of the Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry, known as the “Southern Confederates,” one of the most well-educated, zealously religious, and unbelievably gallant groups of men to engage in the American Civil War. Using the soldiers’ actual letters, memoirs, war records, and obituaries, James R. Fleming documents this immortal “band of brothers,” which included five of his own ancestors, as they endure the privations of life on the western front. This valuable historical and genealogical resource also includes discussions of the battles at Columbus, Perryville, and Atlanta, as well as the regiment’s Order of Battle and each soldier’s service record. The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry contains a wealth of archival information taken from primary sources. The letters and reminiscences of Capt. James I. Hall, an educator who joined the war to watch over his young students, are published here in full for the first time. The author has also included C. B. Simonton’s detailed contemporary account of the unit’s organization, as well as transcripts of the speeches given at the presentation and acceptance of the company’s first flag. Mr. Fleming also features a regimental chronology and a roster containing approximately eleven hundred official war records from the Compiled Service Records. Praise for The Confederate Ninth Tennessee Infantry “This volume is a worthy contribution to the regimental history genre. . . . Useful for anyone interested in the Ninth or any of the campaigns and battles in which the regiment participated.” —William H. Mulligan, Jr., The Civil War News “Nothing brings an event alive more than the words of the actual participants. . . . A must read for anyone interested in the history of Tennessee troops in the Civil War.” —Connie Slaughter, historian, Wilson’s Creek National Military Park “Civil War buffs, this book’s for you.” —Charles D. Townsend, National Genealogy & Heraldry, Fellowship of Rotarians
Book Synopsis Masters of the Battlefield by : Paul K. Davis
Download or read book Masters of the Battlefield written by Paul K. Davis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The personality of a general is indispensable," Napoleon once said. "He is the head, he is the all, of an army." In Masters of the Battlefield, Paul K. Davis offers vivid portraits of fifteen legendary military leaders whose brilliance on and off the battlefield embody this maxim. Hailing from the earliest days of Greek warfare to France at the turn of the nineteenth century, these men stand out for their tactical abilities--generals who made a difference in combat, grasping the way an enemy would think or move and reacting not just to ensure victory, but do so in the face of superior forces. Among the leaders discussed in this encompassing work of military history are Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Scipio Africanus, Belisarius, Chinggis Khan, Oda Nobunaga, the Duke of Wellington, and Napoleon Bonaparte. Davis briefly explores the biography of each commander, considering how his upbringing, early experiences, and social and cultural background might have translated into his leadership abilities. Relying on vast research, Davis describes the nature of armies and warfare of the time, from the phalanx battle of Ancient Greece to the artillery-heavy Swedish army under Gustavus Adolphus. He also examines the course of the wars in which each general fought as a background to the particular battles that best illustrates their abilities, and discusses each battle in detail, aided extensively by detailed battlefield maps. Davis concludes each section with an analysis of the tactical skills and principles at which each general excelled. In analyzing these remarkable leaders, Davis offers a picture of warfare throughout history, and shows this history to be directed--and oftentimes wholly decided--by the abilities of a single man. Masters of the Battlefield tells the stories of men who defined eras, reshaped nations, and who, through the introduction of new weapons and tactics, revolutionized the nature of warfare.
