Crossing Highbridge

Author : Maureen Waters
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780815606291

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Crossing Highbridge by Maureen Waters Pdf

Maureen Waters began writing about the Bronx in the spirit of dinnseachas, Irish place lore, as a means of recuperating from the accidental death of her son, whose story frames her own. Finding her way through the disorienting 1960s, after a girlhood tutored by nuns and inspired by the Holy Ghost, she set out on a kind of spiritual journey to recover what was valuable and life-sustaining in the Irish Catholic experience left behind. Writing her memoir meant coming to terms with the powerful matriarchal voices that inspired both affection and immobilizing guilt. Ultimately, Crossing Highbridge is a tribute to her father, for whom storytelling was an art of healing.

Author : Maureen Waters
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0815606826

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Crossing Highbridge by Maureen Waters Pdf

The first in her family born in the United States, Maureen Waters grew up the "Bronx Irish" daughter of two unforgettable immigrants: her storytelling, former revolutionary father, and her fierce, IRA-supporting mother. Crossing Highbridge is framed by the accidental death of Waters's son and her struggle to make sense of this loss by re-imagining her past and her heritage. Her life in postwar New York City was colored by Catholicism and strong cultural links to "the other side"—by Irish step dancing, the melodies of Thomas Moore, and the rituals, inflections, and harrowing memories impressed on her. Sex was a mystery. Schoolgirls wore below-the-knee blue serge uniforms with starched white collars and cuffs. Brutal treatment at the hands of the nuns who ran her college drove Waters to transfer to a secular school. Waters rebelled against an upbringing that seemed to wall her off from the twentieth century. She marr ed outside the church, divorced, and became a scholar and professor at the City University of New York. Waters follows in the tradition of her father with this vividly humorous and moving true tale.

Author : Constance Rosenblum
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814777244

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Boulevard of Dreams by Constance Rosenblum Pdf

Presents a history of the thoroughfare designed by Louis Aloys Risse that spans over four miles through the center of the West Bronx, the Grand Boulevard, and Concourse and explores the various aspects of Jewish communal life near the boulevard.

Author : Great Britain Railways
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1044 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118858039

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Annual Reports, Returns, Etc by Great Britain Railways Pdf

Author : Colin Maggs
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445625836

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The GWR Bristol to Taunton Line by Colin Maggs Pdf

The story of a fascinating railway line

Author : Charles H. Bogart
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781387972005

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The Railroads of Kentucky During the 1940s & 1950s by Charles H. Bogart Pdf

Kentucky claims to be the birthplace of railroading west of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1832, the Lexington & Ohio Railroad (L&O) began to build track from Lexington to Louisville. Unfortunately the L&O got no further than Frankfort on the Kentucky River when it ran out of money. Railroad construction in Kentucky would stagnate until the 1850s when four companies started to build track, three were north-south and one east-west. An amalgamation of railroads using the name Kentucky Central would push south from Covington opposite Cincinnati OH, toward Chattanooga TN, but stalled at Nicholasville due to the Civil War. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad (L&N) would build southward from Louisville for Nashville TN, and Memphis TN, reaching both cities as the Civil War started. The Mobile & Ohio Railroad (M&O) during the same period completed a railroad from Mobile AL, to Columbus KY, on the Mississippi River. The east-west track reached from Louisville eastward to a junction at Frankfort KY.

Author : Charles H. Bogart
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781312700598

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Railroads 40s & 50s by Charles H. Bogart Pdf

Each class one, class two and class three railroad in Kentucky is covered in text and photographs

Author : Robert W. Snyder
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801455179

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Crossing Broadway by Robert W. Snyder Pdf

Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore parks, and work with the police to bring safety to streets racked by crime and fear. It shows how a neighborhood once nicknamed "Frankfurt on the Hudson" for its large population of German Jews became "Quisqueya Heights"—the home of the nation's largest Dominican community. The story of Washington Heights illuminates New York City's long passage from the Great Depression and World War II through the urban crisis to the globalization and economic inequality of the twenty-first century. Washington Heights residents played crucial roles in saving their neighborhood, but its future as a home for working-class and middle-class people is by no means assured. The growing gap between rich and poor in contemporary New York puts new pressure on the Heights as more affluent newcomers move into buildings that once sustained generations of wage earners and the owners of small businesses. Crossing Broadway is based on historical research, reporting, and oral histories. Its narrative is powered by the stories of real people whose lives illuminate what was won and lost in northern Manhattan's journey from the past to the present. A tribute to a great American neighborhood, this book shows how residents learned to cross Broadway—over the decades a boundary that has separated black and white, Jews and Irish, Dominican-born and American-born—and make common cause in pursuit of one of the most precious rights: the right to make a home and build a better life in New York City.

Author : Mary L. McClure
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 0738593613

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High Bridge Glens of Cuyahoga Falls by Mary L. McClure Pdf

Thanks to its breathtaking waterfalls, mysterious caves, and thrilling roller coaster--rumored to be one of the first in the United States--the High Bridge Glens and Caves Park, located along the banks of the thundering Cuyahoga River, made the northeast Ohio community of Cuyahoga Falls one of the leading tourist destinations in the state in the late 1800s. At the height of its popularity, the park attracted more than 8,000 visitors per day. Guests ranged from future US president (then congressman) William McKinley to internationally known trapeze artists. Although reporters quickly dubbed the park "the Niagara of Ohio" and predicted it would become famous abroad, by the early 1900s the High Bridge Glens had faded into obscurity, ultimately leaving behind little evidence that it ever existed at all.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Railroad companies
ISBN : UOM:39015013031698

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The Railway Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : L. E. Schuck
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781649573681

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The Last of the Dalton Gang by L. E. Schuck Pdf

The Last of the Dalton Gang By: L. E. Schuck The Last of the Dalton Gang is a biography of a career criminal who was tutored by older thieves on the art of stealing tires from boxcars on trains. He learned well. He eventually became the mastermind behind thefts of tires and other valuables from warehouses, railroad shipping containers, and boxcars. During Dalton’s forty-plus years of crime, he spent time in three different federal prisons and many state institutions. Dalton recounts many of his crimes and includes several he was never charged for. During the author’s career in law enforcement, he was involved in several of the cases where John Dalton and his gang members were arrested. In fact, over the years trying to build cases against John Dalton, the author finds it unique that he found himself working with Dalton to tell the story about his life and efforts trying not to get caught.

Author : J. Morgan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137001269

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New World Irish by J. Morgan Pdf

The book concerns the new World Irish, tracing the developing profile of the Irish in America from the Famine forward. The studies draw their material from roughly a one-hundred-year arc of Irish presence and relevance in American life and they would serve as American as well as Irish-American studies.

Author : James Silas Rogers
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813229188

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Irish-American Autobiography by James Silas Rogers Pdf

Is there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it's often an indirect one. Opening a new window on the meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, this work also reveals how Catholicism, so key to the identity of earlier generations of Irish Americans, has also evolved.

Author : Oona Frawley
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780815651505

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Memory Ireland by Oona Frawley Pdf

Despite the ease with which scholars have used the term “memory” in re­cent decades, its definition remains enigmatic. Does cultural memory rely on the memories of individuals, or does it take shape beyond the borders of the individual mind? Cultural memory has garnered particular atten­tion within Irish studies. With its trauma-filled history and sizable global diaspora, Ireland presents an ideal subject for work in this vein. What do stereotypes of Irish memory—as extensive, unforgiving, begrudging, but also blank on particular, usually traumatic, subjects—reveal about the ways in which cultural remembrance works in contemporary Irish culture and in Irish diasporic culture? How do icons of Irishness—from the harp to the cottage, from the Celtic cross to a figure like James Joyce—function in cultural memory? This collection seeks to address these questions as it maps a landscape of cultural memory in Ireland through theoretical, historical, literary, and cultural explorations by top scholars in the field of Irish studies. In a series that will ultimately include four volumes, the sixteen es­says in this first volume explore remembrance and forgetting throughout history, from early modern Ireland to contemporary multicultural Ireland. Among the many subjects address, Guy Beiner disentangles “collective” from “folk” memory in “Remembering and Forgetting the Irish Rebellion of 1798,” and Anne Dolan looks at local memory of the Civil war in “Embodying the Memory of War and Civil War.” The volume concludes with Alan Titley’s “The Great Forgetting,” a compelling argu­ment for viewing modern Irish culture as an artifact of the Europeaniza­tion of Ireland and for bringing into focus the urgent need for further, wide-ranging Irish-language scholarship.

Author : Mary Trigg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000843774

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Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism by Mary Trigg Pdf

The book aims to broaden understanding of the diverse positions and meanings of motherhood by investigating understudied and marginalized mothers (rural itinerant, African American, and Irish Catholic American) between 1920 and 1960. Fuelled by anxieties around feminism, a perception of men’s loss of status and masculinity, racial tensions, and fears about immigration, "antimaternalism" discourse blamed mothers for a wide range of social ills in the first half of the 20th Century. Mothering, Time, and Antimaternalism considers the ideas, practices, and depictions of antimaternalism, and the ways that mothers responded. Religion, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and immigration status are all analysed as factors shaping maternal experience. The book develops the historical context of American motherhood between 1920 and 1960, examining how changing ideas – scientific motherhood, time efficiency, devaluation of domesticity, racial and religious bias - influenced the construction and experiences of motherhood. This is a fascinating and important book suitable for students and scholars in history, gender studies, cultural studies and sociology.