Publication date: 2002-05
Dewey code: 917
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Review Memories of White Pond / Xlibris Corporation:
Authors
- John S. Major
- David C. Major
Publication date: 2007-10-10
Dewey code: 974.902092
List Price: $29.50
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Review A Huguenot on the Hackensack: David Demarest and His Legacy / Fairleigh Dickinson University Press:"A Huguenot on the Hackensack" explores the life and legacy of David Demarest, a seventeenth-century French Protestant who, in middle age, emigrated to New Amsterdam and became one of the earliest settlers of the Hackensack Valley. There he founded a prosperous family that for nearly three centuries retained local influence and high status before being eclipsed by post-World War II economic and demographic changes. Transcending the narrow genealogical antiquarianism and filial pietism of traditional family history, the authors carefully set Demarest and his descendants in the context of their times. The astute patriarch is seen as a man who balanced risk and opportunity to achieve a prosperity that would have been impossible in his native Europe. Some early descendants moved to booming areas in Pennsylvania, upstate New York, Kentucky, and beyond, while others stayed close to home and dealt with the rigors of the American Revolution and the dilemmas of religious controversy in New Jersey. Members of later generations adapted to new conditions as rural Bergen County slowly was transformed by railroads and suburban housing. This book illuminates the role of kinship and culture in the Jersey Dutch heartland from colonial times to the modern era. David C. Major is Senior Research Scientist at the Columbia University Earth Institute's Center for Research on Climate Systems. John S. [+]Major is an independent scholar.
Publication date: 2003-05-14
Dewey code: 974.38
List Price: $50.00
Price: $29.65
Review A Tale of New England: The Diaries of Hiram Harwood, Vermont Farmer, 1810-1837 / The Johns Hopkins University Press:The extraordinary diary of Vermont farmer Hiram Harwood-a fourteen-volume record of personal, family, and community events from 1808 to 1837-provides Robert E. Shalhope with the material for this rich microhistory. Harwood's struggle to reach full manhood and assume his position as head of the family, his misgivings about challenging-much less displacing-his father, the changes American life brought to this traditional rite of passage, Hiram's relationships with wife and children, seasonal events, and all the day-to-day experiences of this finally tragic figure make for a fascinating story and provide a highly unusual window into antebellum American life. Although he focuses mainly on the story of a single farmer, Shalhope also incorporates other stories from this wide-ranging chronicle. Readers glimpse the social, political, economic, and religious life of the entire New England region. Most of all, though, the story of Hiram Harwood reveals the personal price exacted of him by one family's unyielding belief in patriarchy.
Publication date: 2008-02-20
Dewey code: 976
List Price: $29.95
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Review Florida's Pioneer Naturalist: The Life of Charles Torrey Simpson / University Press of Florida:Charles Torrey Simpson (1846-1932) settled in south Florida in 1902, a time when the vast expanse of islands and marshes that comprise the Everglades teemed with panthers, crocodiles, and great flocks of flamingos, egrets, ibis, herons, and wood storks. Simpson devoted his remaining 30 years to interpreting the subtropical plants and animals he found, becoming the environmental spokesman to the droves of settlers and tourists who invaded and developed the Sunshine State in the 1920s. In this first full-length biography, illustrated with 34 photographs, Simpson takes his place in the galaxy of nature writers that includes his contemporaries John Muir and John Burroughs. Through his popular books, Simpson acquainted readers with a unique North American ecosystem. HisOrnamental Gardening, the first comprehensive guide to Florida's tropical plants, changed the way people landscaped their homes. He advocated the formation of a national park in the Everglades, encouraged the growth of Florida garden clubs, and wrote about his experience in the hurricane of 1926 in both personal and scientific terms.
Publication date: 2005-09-30
Dewey code: 813.54
List Price: $40.00
Price: $29.32
Review Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family (Frances B. Vick) / University of North Texas Press:"Prairie Gothic" is full of Texas lore. Erickson tells the story of people in the context of a specific place. This place, instrumental in shaping their lives, is the flatland prairie of northwestern Texas that has gone by various names (High Plains, South Plains, Staked Plains, and Llano Estacado), as well as the rugged country on its eastern boundary, often referred to as the "caprock canyonlands. " One branch of Erickson's family arrived in Texas in 1858, settling in Parker County, west of Weatherford. Another branch, sturdy Quaker farmers from Ohio, helped establish the first Anglo settlement on the Llano Estacado in 1881, near present-day Lubbock. Erickson's family interacts with significant historical figures, such as Cynthia Ann Parker, and includes members of the Estacado Quaker colony. There is the story of Martha Sherman, who died at the hands of the Comanche, and the tale of the notorious outlaw Tom Ross. "Prairie Gothic" also includes Erickson's encounters with famous Texas writers, such as John Graves and J. Evetts Haley. Burrowing deep into his West Texas roots, Erickson discovered people of substance and strong character, made that way in part by the challenges they faced in a harsh environment. [+]He has created a fascinating blend of family and regional history. Excerpts from journals, letters, and other original sources enrich the narrative.
Publication date: 2008-06-13
Dewey code: 370
List Price: $41.95
Price: $28.78
Review Prince Lucien Campbell / Kessinger Publishing, LLC:This volume is the biography of one of the best known and most loved presidents of the University of Oregon. Originally issues on the occasion of the semi-centennial of the university in 1927.
Creator: Nancy A. Williams
Publication date: 2000-05-15
Dewey code: 920.0767
List Price: $50.00
Price: $49.39
Review Arkansas Biography: A Collection of Notable Lives / University of Arkansas Press:Eight years in the making, Arkansas Biography brings to light the lives of those who have helped shape Arkansas history for over four hundred years. Featured are not only the trailblazers, such as steamboat captain Henry Shreve, Olympic gold medalist Bill Carr, and aviator Louise Thaden, but also those whose lives reflect their culture and times - musicians, scientists, teachers, preachers, and journalists. One hundred and eighty contributors - professional and avocational historians - offer clear vignettes of nearly three hundred individuals, beginning with Hernando de Soto, who crossed the Mississippi River in the summer of 1540. The entries include birth and death dates and places, life and career highlights, lineage, anecdotes, and source material. This is a browser's book with an Arkansas voice. The wealth of information condensed into this single reference volume will be valuable to general readers of all ages, libraries, museums, and scholars. A fitting summary at the turn of a millennium, Arkansas Biography pays lasting tribute to the men and women who have enriched the life and character of the state and, by extension, the region and the nation.
Creator: John T. Kneebone; J. Jefferson Looney; Brent Tarter; Sandra Gioia Treadway
Publication date: 1998-10-01
Dewey code: 920.0755
List Price: $49.95
Price: $39.46
Review Dictionary of Virginia Biography: Volume I: Aaroe - Blanchfield / Library of Virginia:The multivolume Dictionary of Virginia Biography is an indispensable tool for teachers, students, librarians, historians, genealogists, museum professionals, and other who need reliable biographical data on a wide range of notable Virginians from bygone days. Based on extensive research in original documents, the completed series will stand as a comprehensive reference work on Virginia and Virginians from all walks of life. Finding aids for the DVB, including classified indexes to occupations and places of birth, are available on the Library of Virginia's Web site at www. lva. lib. va. us/whatwedo/pubs/dvb/index. htm.
Authors
- Cash Mallory
- Mary Mallory
- Catheryn Park
- Edited by Catheryn Park
Publication date: 2001-02-27
Dewey code: 979.50410922
List Price: $31.99
Price: $31.99
Review The Huckleberry Letters / Xlibris Corporation:Mary and Cash Mallory wrote more than eighty letters to each other in the year following their meeting while "huckleberrying" in eastern Oregon in 1880. These letters, delivered by stagecoach, tell the story of a friendship that grew into love.
Publication date: 2002-03
Dewey code: 811
List Price: $32.95
Price: $29.66
Review J. Howard: A Prophet of Our Times / Authorhouse:A dreamer unafraid, even in legal defiance, to activate his dreams, J. Howard witnessed, with the exception of one, those dreams' fruition. Decades ahead of time's acceptance, he was a free-thinker in countless areas, among them politics, religion, vegetarianism, dress, home-schooling.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2001-03-01
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $21.99
Price: $34.94
Review Gramma Kilburn's Kitchen / Xlibris Corporation:Gramma Kilburn's Kitchen is a unique look at farm life in Vermont, as seen through the soul of the farmhouse, the kitchen. Author Jane Philbrick has compiled an intriguing collection of anecdotes, diary entries, memoirs, and authentic recipes collected from one specific, but very typical Vermont farm, which remained in her family for almost a hundred years. Readers will not only get an affectionate portrait of Vermont farm life since mid-nineteeth century, they'll also be able to summon up the tastes and smells from real farm recipes and seasonal menus, and revisit a world that now exits only in memory, and in the hearts of all those who were loved and fed - by Gramma Kilburn.
Publication date: 2008-10-16
Dewey code: 283.092
List Price: $45.00
Price: $31.26
Review And the Wilderness shall Blossom: Henry Benjamin Whipple, Churchman, Educator, Advocate for the Indians / Afton Historical Society Press:When he died in 1902, Henry Benjamin Whipple was one of Minnesota s best-known citizens. In his 42 years as Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, he had overseen the development of the state s Episcopal Diocese and established two well-regarded secondary schools (Shattuck and St. Marys) and Seabury Seminary. In his denomination, he was a force for conciliation and mission. But he was most famous as a champion of the rights of Native Americans. Although his advocacy of assimilating native peoples into the majority culture is now challenged, in his time he was a major voice in bringing the plight of Native Americans onto the international stage. An outgoing, charismatic figure, Whipple was ninety percent St. John and ten percent New York politician, a charming blend of evangelist and shrewd businessman whose friends ran the gamut from presidents to backwoodsmen. His simple sincerity and beautiful, powerful voice made him a popular speaker and persuasive fund-raiser. Anne Beiser Allen traces Whipple s origins in upstate New York, his election as Minnesota s first Episcopal Bishop and his growing influence in the fields of religious affairs, education and Indian policy. [+]Her carefully documented research helps to bring this complex figure into clearer focus.
Edition: 1
Publication date: 2006-10-01
Dewey code: 070.41092
List Price: $37.50
Price: $37.47
Review The Pen Makes a Good Sword: John Forsyth of the Mobile Register / University Alabama Press:“The most important Democratic editor of the South. ” —New York Times, 1877 This book is a biography of Alabama native John Forsyth Jr. and documents his career as a southern newspaper editor during the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods. From 1837 to 1877 Forsyth wrote about many of the most important events of the 19th century. He used his various positions as an editor, Civil War field correspondent, and Reconstruction critic at the MobileRegister to advocate on behalf of both the South and the Democratic Party. In addition, Forsyth played an active role in the events taking place around him through his political career, as United States Minister to Mexico, state legislator, Confederate Peace Commissioner to the Lincoln administration, staff officer to Braxton Bragg, and twice mayor of the city of Mobile. Lonnie A. Burnett is Associate Professor of History at the University of Mobile.
Publication date: 2007-07-25
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $42.95
Price: $28.70
Review Emerson in Concord: A Memoir Written for the Social Circle in Concord Massachusetts / Kessinger Publishing, LLC:1888. Emerson's son, Edward Waldo Emerson, was a graduate of Harvard medical school. After his father's death he devoted himself to editing and to writing about the literary men of his father's generation including this volume about his father, Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet, and popular philosopher.
Publication date: 2004-10-28
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $29.50
Price: $29.50
Review One Badge Alone: Tales of an Alaskan Bush Cop / AuthorHouse:Alaska, the last frontier. I was met with phone calls saying get out of town or you're dead. I was shot at the second night brown bears came into the village, I'm one of the few people that has stood nose to nose with a huge brown bear and lived. I was the only law for a hundred plus miles, there was no Jail, no police radio, and most of all no backup. The only way in or out of the village was by plane or boat. I have a saying, "You stand your ground and you don't back down, if you do there's no need to stay around, Just get on a plane and get the hell out of town. ".
Publication date: 2002-10
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $32.45
Price: $32.45
Review My Memories / Authorhouse:
Publication date: 2002-01
List Price: $32.50
Price: $32.50
Review At Home in the Heart of Appalachia / ISIS Large Print Books:John O’Brien was raised in Philadelphia by an Appalachian father who fled the mountains to escape crippling poverty and family tragedy. Years later, with a wife and two kids of his own, the son moved back into those mountains in an attempt to understand both himself and the father from whom he’d become estranged. At once a poignant memoir and a tribute to America's most misunderstood region, At Home in the Heart of Appalachia describes a lush land of voluptuous summers, woodsmoke winters, and breathtaking autumns and springs. John O'Brien sees through the myths about Appalachia to its people and the mountain culture that has sustained them. And he takes to task naïve missionaries and rapacious industrialists who are the real source of much of the region's woe as well as its lingering hillbilly stereotypes. Finally, and profoundly, he comes to terms with the atavistic demons that haunt the relations between Appalachian fathers and sons. John O'Brien's scrupulous, exactingly honest memoir opens in 1995 on the day of his father's funeral in Philadelphia, which he will not attend because "eighteen years of silence stand between us [and] my presence would only add to family stress. " Instead, he chooses to visit his father's birthplace in Piedmont, West Virginia, and consider the roots of their estrangement in the region that indelibly shaped them both. In a subtle, ruminative text, the author interweaves his memories with a history of Appalachia that debunks many myths. (The Hatfield-McCoy "feud," for example, had more to do with dislocation caused by the coal and timber industries than any native blood lust. [+]) Much of the book limns O'Brien's first few years in Franklin, a small town two hours south of Piedmont where he and his family settled in 1984. A bitter conflict involving the Woodlands Institute, an educational establishment that locals feared was trying to "take over" their school system, becomes a paradigm for O'Brien of the way affluent outsiders have always stereotyped Appalachia as a primitive backwater peopled by hillbillies, while the residents resisted attempts by strangers to "improve" their home ground with a stubborn fatalism about the possibility of (or need for) change. The author's own conflicts with his parents-who were skeptical when he went to college and horrified when he admitted to seeing a psychiatrist-reveal a provincialism and narrow-mindedness he does not deny are common in the region. At the same time, he affirms the joy of living close to nature and honors the "plainspoken, empathetic, and genuine" native character. Because his complex work doesn't trade in stock nostrums or easy sentimentality, the portrait that emerges of a people and a place rings deeply true. -Wendy Smith.
Publication date: 2004-05-07
Dewey code: 920
List Price: $43.95
Price: $29.44
Review War, Politics and Reconstruction: Stormy Days in Louisiana / Kessinger Publishing, LLC:1930. The autobiographical account of Louisiana Governor Warmoth. Warmoth was born in McLeansboro, Illinois. He studied the law and then served with the Union Army in the Civil War, was wounded at Vicksburg, Mississippi, dishonorably discharged in the quarrel between generals Grant and McLernand, was restored to service by President Lincoln with full rank and position he would have held if not dismissed. When the war ended he remained in Louisiana, and was elected Governor in 1868. While Warmoth considered himself a southerner, during his term as governor Warmoth presided over a Carpetbagger Reconstruction administration that many describe as Louisiana's most corrupt. This book is an great example of Southern politics and thought following Reconstruction.
Publication date: 2003-09
Dewey code: 974.897
List Price: $43.95
Price: $43.95
Review In a Valley Surrounded by Hills: Stories of Growing Up in a Pennsylvania Town / Franklin Street Books:If you enjoy this book, you should really give the credit to my wife. Absent her encouragement, it might never have been written. She'd listened to my Meadville stories for years, finally urging cheerfully, "You know, you really should write a book. " So I wrote two other books. She loved them both. But they weren't the book she wanted. I was skeptical. "Who would want to read a book about me growing up?" "Well, your grandchildren, among others. " My initial efforts were tentative at best: a bit of story here, a fragment there, until finally (partly because of the writing itself?) it began to sink in that she had a point. Our stories are more important than we realize. [+]The very telling of them summons back to consciousness not just the places where our pasts unfolded but the people who inhabited them, places and people that shaped who we are and, to some extent, who we may yet become. The more deeply I probed those far-off memories, the more brightly my childhood town lit up around me, and the larger became the company of shadows who gathered around my chair, looking over my shoulder and prodding me to remember. Because places change, we no longer see ourselves in them-until we revisit them as they were, and see ourselves again as we were. Maybe, I thought, reading my story will help others to explore their own, to find out how their hometowns, and the people who lived there, matter in ways they'll not grasp unless they go there. One other consideration drove the writing. Stories deserve to be told well. Forty years of preaching, teaching and writing have taught me the importance of that. If I have done nothing else here, I have tried to tell my stories in such a way that their beauty and fun-and their sad mortality-remain unmistakably present. How well I succeeded I'll leave for you to judge.
Edition: 1st
Publication date: 1998-11-15
Dewey code: 976.3063092
List Price: $39.95
Price: $39.95
Review My Awakening: A Path to Racial Understanding / Free Speech Books:David Duke's riveting autobiography.
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