Canal Town

Author : Julia Hall
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780791491416

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Canal Town Youth by Julia Hall Pdf

This book considers how impoverished youth living in a deindustrialized urban neighborhood struggle to make sense of their lives in today's economy. Using participant observation and in-depth interviews with a group of eighteen white middle school girls and boys who walk each day from their multi-ethnic bilingual school to the historically white/Irish community center, the author discovered that the poor white youth are experiencing lives saturated with domestic violence and marked by a strong sense of racism. She also found that the youth position the community center as a space in which they feel a sense of safety, belonging, and importance. But upon closer examination, the community center can also be seen as a literal white "construction site," where the scaffolding that supports and sustains white supremacist ideology is produced and encouraged within children, within the neighborhood, across communities, and across generations.

Author : Samuel Hopkins Adams
Publisher : Random House
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307827982

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Canal Town by Samuel Hopkins Adams Pdf

A classic historical novel of a young doctor and the Erie Canal, which brought with it to Western New York not only progress and prosperity but unforeseen upheavals. “[An] elaborate, colorful, and affectionate portrait of a canal town in its growing pains. Obviously [Samuel Hopkins] Adams has not only gone back to the sources but has lived with them for a long time before writing his account of a young doctor setting up his practice.”—The Atlantic “Mr. Adams knows his Erie lore so well and has boned up so thoroughly on American medical history in the early part of the [eighteenth] century that nobody who reads the book can fail to learn a great deal about what life was like in general and the practice of medicine in particular was like in a boom town.”—The New Yorker “His villains are strongly delineated and actuated by very human motives, his minor figures are picturesque and drawn with gusto, even his sympathetic characters come alive with personal crochets and idiosyncrasies.”—Carl Carmer, Saturday Review of Literature

Author : John R. Giles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625852106

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The Story of Waterloo Village: From Colonial Forge to Canal Town by John R. Giles Pdf

First established in the 1700s as a forge village, Waterloo--located in Sussex County, New Jersey--has endured several eras of decline and growth. An industrial hub and farming community, it played a role in the American Revolution. When the canal arrived, Waterloo reinvented itself into a vital transportation link that helped foster the new nation's first Industrial Revolution. The peacefulness of the canal belies the complex engineering required to integrate it into the village's footprint. Today, beautifully preserved colonial-era buildings complement pre-Civil War structures, Victorian mansions and twentieth-century edifices. Local author John Giles illuminates the constant ebb and flow of the history of Waterloo Village.

Author : United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210012145502

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Chesapeake and Ohio Canal by United States. National Park Service. Division of Publications Pdf

This beautiful illustrated handbook provides information on the 19th century canal era such as: how the canal was built, how it worked, who made it work, and what it contributed to developing agriculture, mining, and industry in the Potomac River basin. Also provides a concise travel guide with detailed canal maps, and other reference materials to make the most of a visit to the canal.

Author : Deborah Williams
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581579192

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Explorer's Guide Erie Canal: A Great Destination: Exploring New York's Great Canals by Deborah Williams Pdf

The Erie Canal: Great Destinations is the first comprehensive travel guide to New York State Canals and the communities and attractions found along them. Each chapter covers one canal, providing historical background as well as information on wineries, canal museums, restaurants, lodging, canal cruises and bike paths in all the major cities, many of the small towns and villages, and the two biggest Finger Lakes. The guide offers separate sections on Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, Utica, and Rochester and their outlying areas, as well as a chapter on Niagara Falls. With coverage of three smaller canals in the region (the Oswego, Champlain, and Cayuga-Seneca) this is undoubtedly the most extensive guide to the canalways of the state.

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN : UOM:39015027006967

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Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1976-06
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN : IND:30000098611563

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Comprehensive Calendar of Bicentennial Events by Anonim Pdf

Author : Douglas K. Meyer
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0809322897

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Making the Heartland Quilt by Douglas K. Meyer Pdf

"Basing his research on the 1850 United States manuscript schedules, Meyer dissects the geographical configurations of twenty-three native and ten foreign-born adult male immigrant groups who peopled Illinois."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Samuel V. Kennedy III
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815627998

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Samuel Hopkins Adams and the Business of Writing by Samuel V. Kennedy III Pdf

Samuel V. Kennedy offers the first definitive work on the magazine muckraker who became a biographer, novelist, historian, and master storyteller—Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958). An upstate New Yorker who graduated from Hamilton College, Adams began his writing career at the legendary New York Sun. He then moved to magazines where he was a medical writer. As a muckraker, he exposed the inefficacy of patent medicines for which Americans spent tens of millions of dollars seeking remedies for everything from the common cold to cancer. His muckraking and personal lobbying helped gain passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 which earned him honorary membership in the American Medical Association. His success led him to an independent life as a writer for the next half-century. The book traces the prolific and eclectic writing career of Adams who wrote more than fifty books and wrote the scripts for the films, It Happened One Night (1934) and the 1920's sensation, Flaming Youth. Kennedy offers insight into Adams's relationships with fellow writers, agents, magazine editors, book publishers, and reviewers, which he maintained throughout an illustrious career. Noted for his upstate New York novels and stories, Adams's ability to adapt to changing times while continuing to attack sham and hypocrisy mark his successful career.

Author : Roger W. Hecht
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2003-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0815607598

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The Erie Canal Reader, 1790-1950 by Roger W. Hecht Pdf

The Erie Canal Reader—poems, essays, travelogues, and fiction by major American and British writers—captures the colorful landscape and life along the Erie Canal from its birth in the New York frontier, through its heyday as a passage of culture and commerce, to its present decline into disuse. Part celebration of the men and women who worked its waters and part social observation, these writings by such figures as Basil Hall, Frances Trollope, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and others provide first-hand observations of the canal country and its role in the evolution of American social and economic culture from frontier to industrial prominence. In addition to depictions of canal life, the pieces offer glimpses of early tourist resorts, like Trenton Falls, and observations of religious experiments that made New York's "burned over district" a hotbed of social and political reform. Also included are works by the most prominent Erie Canal writers, Walter D. Edmonds and Samuel Hopkins Adams, whose stories and novels bring a modern sensibility and insight to their reflections on the canal.

Author : John Paul Lucas
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781434397942

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Eidos by John Paul Lucas Pdf

Author : Massachusetts. Dept. of Community Affairs. Energy Conservation Project
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951D00707219E

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Assistance in local government energy conservation in Massachusetts by Massachusetts. Dept. of Community Affairs. Energy Conservation Project Pdf

Author : Ronald E. Shaw
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780813145815

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Canals For A Nation by Ronald E. Shaw Pdf

All but forgotten except as a part of nostalgic lore, American canals during the first half of the nineteenth century provided a transportation network that was vital to the development of the new nation. They lowered transportation costs, carried a vast grain trade from western farms to eastern ports, delivered Pennsylvania coal to New York, and carried thousands of passengers at what seemed effortless speed. Along their courses sprang up new towns and cities and with them new economic growth. Canals for a Nation brings together in one volume a survey of all the major American canals. Here are accounts of innovative engineering, of near heroic figures who devoted their lives to canals, and of canal projects that triumphed over all the uncertainties of the political process.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : UOM:39015099374327

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Handbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976
ISBN : MINN:31951D02881593L

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The Bicentennial of the United States of America by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration Pdf