Dancing With The Mountains

Author : Paul Travers
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dancing with the Mountains by Paul Travers Pdf

When the cosmic tumblers click into place and the universe opens its vault, miracles can happen. Inspired by his dying father’s dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Paul Travers hits the trail and finds that miracle in the healing power of America’s sacred mountains. Dancing with the Mountains… Alzheimer’s, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail – A Journey of Spirit chronicles Paul’s thru-hike to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association and prove that “60 is the new 40.” More than a travelogue, it is a love story about fathers and sons, families battling Alzheimer’s, and the people and places along the Appalachian Trail. Sprinkled with humor and humanity, It is the spiritual response to Bill Bryson’s bestseller A Walk in the Woods. On his pilgrimage, Paul eludes the FBI, meets his guardian angel, survives a lightning strike and a near drowning, encounters the ghost of a relative, acquires a trail name (Sondance), finds a Field of Dreams, walks off the war, solves the death of a Hollywood starlet, discovers Saint Francis and the Buddha in New York, embraces a religious cult, visits ground zero for the 60s hippie movement (Arlo’s not Alice’s Restaurant), receives a sacred stone from a Lakota medicine man, meets a female apostle, discovers his father’s parallel spiritual journey, and copes with the death of his parents. His adventure ultimately reveals nature is not only the handiwork of God but the hand of God that leads each of us on a unique spiritual journey.

Author : Thomas Locker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0152026223

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Mountain Dance by Thomas Locker Pdf

A poetic description of various kinds of mountains and how they are formed. Includes factual information on mountains.

Author : Ginger Mynatt
Publisher : Ginger Mynatt
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0595197523

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Dancing on the Mountain by Ginger Mynatt Pdf

Heather Caldwell's feet are ugly and she is proud of it. Long hours of dancing have hardened huge calluses and blackened her toenails. But has she danced enough to get a major role in Viva El Paso, an outdoor theater staged in the mountains? A dream she has had for years. Her dream becomes a nightmare when an unknown enemy kills her boyfriend and threatens her. She flees into the mountains where there is far more to worry about than her dreams.

Author : Richard A. Straw,H. Tyler Blethen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252092602

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High Mountains Rising by Richard A. Straw,H. Tyler Blethen Pdf

This collection is the first comprehensive, cohesive volume to unite Appalachian history with its culture. Richard A. Straw and H. Tyler Blethen's High Mountains Rising provides a clear, systematic, and engaging overview of the Appalachian timeline, its people, and the most significant aspects of life in the region. The first half of the fourteen essays deal with historical issues including Native Americans, pioneer settlement, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, industrialization, the Great Depression, migration, and finally, modernization. The remaining essays take a more cultural focus, addressing stereotypes, music, folklife, language, literature, and religion. Bringing together many of the most prestigious scholars in Appalachian studies, this volume has been designed for general and classroom use, and includes suggestions for further reading.

Author : Byrd Baylor
Publisher : Atheneum
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Dance
ISBN : 0684134403

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Sometimes I Dance Mountains by Byrd Baylor Pdf

Text and photographs capture a young girl's feelings about dance.

Author : Constance Richards,Kenneth Richards
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762766192

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Insiders' Guide® to North Carolina's Mountains by Constance Richards,Kenneth Richards Pdf

Insiders' Guide to North Carolina's Mountains is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the region that includes Asheville, Biltmore Estate, Cherokee, Blue Ridge Parkway, and other nearby environs. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the area and its surrounding environs.

Author : Michael Ann Williams
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781628468960

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Great Smoky Mountains Folklife by Michael Ann Williams Pdf

The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife here has been uniquely shaped by historical events, including the Cherokee Removal of the 1830s and the creation of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park a century later. This book surveying the rich folklife of this special place in the American South offers a view of the culture as it has been defined and changed by scholars, missionaries, the federal government, tourists, and people of the region themselves. Here is an overview of the history of a beautiful landscape, one that examines the character typified by its early settlers, by the displacement of the people, and by the manner in which the folklife was discovered and defined during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here also is an examination of various folk traditions and a study of how they have changed and evolved.

Author : Anthony Hunt
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780874174762

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Genesis, Structure, and Meaning in Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End by Anthony Hunt Pdf

When Gary Snyder’s long poem Mountains and Rivers Without End was published in 1996, it was hailed as a masterpiece of American poetry. Anthony Hunt offers a detailed historical and explicative analysis of this complex work using, among his many sources, Snyder’s personal papers, letters, and interviews. Hunt traces the work’s origins, as well as some of the sources of its themes and structure, including Nō drama; East Asian landscape painting; the rhythms of storytelling, chant, and song; Jungian archetypal psychology; world mythology; Buddhist philosophy and ritual; Native American traditions; and planetary geology, hydrology, and ecology. His analysis addresses the poem not merely by its content, but through the structure of individual lines and the arrangement of the parts, examining the personal and cultural influences on Snyder’s work. Hunt’s benchmark study will be rewarding reading for anyone who enjoys the contemplation of Snyder’s artistry and ideas and, more generally, for those who are intrigued by the cultural and intellectual workings of artistic composition.

Author : Simie Nkala
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1916696775

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The Dancing Mountains by Simie Nkala Pdf

Author : Jim Hargan
Publisher : The Countryman Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781581577884

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Explorer's Guide Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains (Fourth Edition) by Jim Hargan Pdf

In a new, updated edition, this comprehensive guide offers full coverage of both sides of the Tennessee–North Carolina divide. In a new, updated edition, this comprehensive guide offers full coverage of both sides of the Tennessee–North Carolina divide. Spend some time in the woods in two of the most popular national parks in the country—Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. You’ll find the best scenic drives, boating, horseback riding, fishing, rock climbing, skiing, and golf, and great local produce, crafts, music, historic homes, and museums in brick-fronted downtowns and bucolic artists’ colonies.

Author : Thomas R. Ford
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813188225

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The Southern Appalachian Region by Thomas R. Ford Pdf

The Southern Appalachian Region is the largest American "problem area"—an area whose participation in the economic growth of the nation has not been sufficient to relieve the chronic poverty of its people. The existence of the problem was recognized a generation ago, but in the past decade the resistance of such areas to economic advance has acquired a more urgent significance in American thought. In 1958, a group of scholars undertook to make a new survey of the Southern Appalachian Region. Aided by grants from the Ford Foundation ultimately amounting to $250,000, they set out to analyze the direction and extent of the changes which had taken place since the last survey (in1935), to define the problem in terms of the present situation, and—if possible—to arrive at recommendations for action which might enable the leaders of the Region and the nation to attack the problem with practical measures. In this volume are presented their comprehensive reports on the Region's population, its economy, its institutions, and its culture. The problems defined by this survey are a challenge to the whole nation, for the consequences of success or failure in solving them will not be limited to the Southern Appalachian Region.

Author : Csenge Vir Zalka
Publisher : Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 162491103X

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Dancing on Blades by Csenge Vir Zalka Pdf

Readers of folktales will relish this collection of rare stories from Hungary. Although the tales were told over one hundred years ago, Zalka's research, translation and embellishments have given these almost-lost stories new lives and fresh faces.

Author : Barnes, Judy
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Asheville Region (N.C.)
ISBN : 1455602701

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Coasting the Mountains by Barnes, Judy Pdf

This lighthearted, personal guide to all the attractions of Western North Carolina include local crafts, recipes, waterfalls, parks, camps and best hiking and biking spots. 1 map. 128 illustrations.

Author : Anna Goldmark Gross
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465602220

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The Gnomes of the Saline Mountains: A Fantastic Narrative by Anna Goldmark Gross Pdf

Author : Amy Graham
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 159845093X

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park by Amy Graham Pdf

Learn about the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's history and varied attractions, as well as its resident wildlife.