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Going to Town

Author : Katherine Ashenburg
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781551996370

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Winner of The Ontario Historical Society’s Fred Landon Award for Best Regional History. With 300 photos and 11 maps. A work of unexpected delights and surprises: here is a one-of-a-kind guidebook that pinpoints the best of Ontario’s architectural heritage in its most charming towns, offers tantalizing and informative details of provincial history, indulges the near universal vice of real-estate voyeurism, and beckons even the most reluctant to physical exercise. Katherine Ashenburg is our knowledgeable and charmingly opinionated companion on walking tours of ten small (populations 1000 to 27,000) Ontario communities that provide a rewarding variety of domestic and public architecture in a walkable compass. Each tour begins with a brief historical sketch of the town, then, with the aid of a detailed map, guides the reader/walker to some 60 sites over a leisurely but carefully plotted two-and-a-half to three-and-a-half hour stroll. We visit churches and jails, libraries and town halls, theatres and factories, and all manner of houses - homes of startling grandiosity and humble integrity. We become conversant with belvederes and ogee arches, Flemish bond and board and batten, at ease with Regency and Queen Anne, Italianate and Romanesque. And along the way, Ashenburg reveals the town’s true personality, its distinctive architectural styles, forms and materials, and the genius, ambition, and vanities of its founders and builders. Every town - Perth, Picton, Cobourg, St. Mary’s, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Merrickville, Port Hope, Paris, Stratford and Goderich - is a day’s excursion from Toronto by a car or public transit; most are day-trips from either Ottawa or London. Over 300 black and white photographs capture the highlights; 11 maps show the way. For easy reference, there is a helpful, illustrated Guide to Historical Styles and an exhaustive Glossary of Architectural terms - everything from Apse to Voussoir.

The Day the World Came to Town

Author : Jim DeFede
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780062103284

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The True Story Behind the Events on 9/11 that Inspired Broadway’s Smash Hit Musical Come from Away, Featuring All New Material from the Author When 38 jetliners bound for the United States were forced to land at Gander International Airport in Canada by the closing of U.S. airspace on September 11, the population of this small town on Newfoundland Island swelled from 10,300 to nearly 17,000. The citizens of Gander met the stranded passengers with an overwhelming display of friendship and goodwill. As the passengers stepped from the airplanes, exhausted, hungry and distraught after being held on board for nearly 24 hours while security checked all of the baggage, they were greeted with a feast prepared by the townspeople. Local bus drivers who had been on strike came off the picket lines to transport the passengers to the various shelters set up in local schools and churches. Linens and toiletries were bought and donated. A middle school provided showers, as well as access to computers, email, and televisions, allowing the passengers to stay in touch with family and follow the news. Over the course of those four days, many of the passengers developed friendships with Gander residents that they expect to last a lifetime. As a show of thanks, scholarship funds for the children of Gander have been formed and donations have been made to provide new computers for the schools. This book recounts the inspiring story of the residents of Gander, Canada, whose acts of kindness have touched the lives of thousands of people and been an example of humanity and goodwill.

Going to Town

Author : Laura Ingalls Wilder
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780064434522

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Long, long ago, a little girl named Laura Ingalls lived in a little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin with her Pa, her Ma, her sisters, Mary and Carrie, and their good old bulldog, Jack. One spring day Pa has a wonderful surprise--he is taking the family on a trip into town! Laura is very excited, for she has never been to a town, and this special visit is everything she imagined and more. Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers. Now for the first time, the youngest readers can share her adventure in these very special picture books adapted from Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved storybooks. RenÉe Graef's warm paintings, inspired by Garth Williams' classic Little House illustrations, bring Laura and her family lovingly to life. Laura and Mary get ready for their very first trip from the little house in the Big Woods into town, where a visit to the general store and a picnic by the lake await. 1995 ‘Pick of the Lists’ (ABA)

Don’t Make Me Go to Town

Author : Rhonda Lashley Lopez
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292773264

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Many people dream of "someday buying a small quaint place in the country, to own two cows and watch the birds," in the words of Texas ranchwoman Amanda Spenrath Geistweidt. But only a few are cut out for the unrelenting work that makes a family ranching operation successful. Don't Make Me Go to Town presents an eloquent photo-documentary of eight women who have chosen to make ranching in the Texas Hill Country their way of life. Ranging from young mothers to elderly grandmothers, these women offer vivid accounts of raising livestock in a rugged land, cut off from amenities and amusements that most people take for granted, and loving the hard lives they've chosen. Rhonda Lashley Lopez began making photographic portraits of Texas Hill Country ranchwomen in 1993 and has followed their lives through the intervening years. She presents their stories through her images and the women's own words, listening in as the ranchwomen describe the pleasures and difficulties of raising sheep, Angora goats, and cattle on the Edwards Plateau west of Austin and north of San Antonio. Their stories record the struggles that all ranchers face—vagaries of weather and livestock markets, among them—as well as the extra challenges of being women raising families and keeping things going on the home front while also riding the range. Yet, to a woman, they all passionately embrace family ranching as a way of life and describe their efforts to pass it on to future generations.

My Little Town

Author : David Tipmore
Publisher : NewSouth Books
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588384348

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Northern urbanite D. B. Tipmore describes the culture shock he experienced after moving to a small Alabama town in My Little Town: A Pilgrim's Portrait of a Uniquely Southern Place. From chicken salad to national politics, Tipmore shares the unique character of the South through the microcosm of his small town. My Little Town turns the Yankee-comes-to-Dixie literary genre outside in, examining Lovelady, Alabama, through the eyes of someone who should never have been living there and yet found himself there for more than a decade. With a keen appreciation of its peculiarly Southern tableau, the book lovingly scrutinizes an Alabama village short chapter by short chapter, accompanied by photographer Frank Williams's images. Funeral visitations, poisoned soup luncheons, Pilgrimage hosting, supper clubs, family feuds, Obama Day parades, politics, Jews, and chicken salad recipes are all treated with a voice of singular precision and affection. Simultaneously author D. B. Tipmore couples this fresh view of Southern small-town life with his own narrative of a worldly urban nomad who hopes to find a home in one of the most isolated areas of the United States, peculiarly defined by its racial history and regional mores. By conflating the two stories, My Little Town challenges the reader as much as the author, raising serious questions about our ability as Americans to transcend our regional identities and cultural complexities.

Neddy and Little Roy Go to Town

Author : Brian D. Brookover
Publisher : Author House
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781481711869

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Neddy and Little Roy Go to Town by Brian D. Brookover Pdf

Neddy is a small but precocious seven year old who wears sunglasses due to his light sensitive eyes. He and his larger than average size twelve year old cousin, Little Roy, are best friends who enjoy adventures together in their idyllic hometown. On a sunny day in May, they take a walk through downtown in order to mail a package containing a birthday present for Neddys grandmother. But when Neddy and Little Roy arrive at the post office they find that they have lost the package and have no idea how to locate it. Fortunately for the boys, one of the leading ladies of the town, Mrs. Mamie Mercer, comes to their rescue. The town is nearly turned upside down when Neddy and Little Roy, aided by Mrs. Mercer and friends, search for the missing package but during their adventure, the boys learn the importance of responsibility, teamwork and perseverance.

Boy about Town

Author : Tony Fletcher
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780099558552

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The author of highly acclaimed Keith Moon and Smiths biographies now tells his own story of a life in love with music, pre- and post-punk London, via a Top 50 countdown I was no longer fitting in at school. I was unsure of my friends, and they were increasingly unsure of me. I wanted to be a rock star. But while all around, voices were starting to break, acne beginning to appear, facial hair sprouting, I remained all flabby flesh and innate scruff, with a high-pitched whine and not a muscle to my name. I was the runt of the class and rarely allowed to forget it. I had no father at home to help me out, and could hardly talk to my mum. So I took solace in The Jam. As a boy, Tony Fletcher frequently felt out of place, yet somehow he secured a ringside seat for one of the most creative periods in British cultural history. This is the story of his formative years in the pre- and post-punk music scenes of London, told via a Top 50 countdown: attendance at seminal gigs and encounters with musical heroes; schoolboy projects that became national success stories; the style culture of punks, mods, and skinheads and the tribal violence that enveloped them; life as a latchkey kid in a single-parent household; weekends on the football terraces in a quest for street credibility; and the teenage boy's unending obsession with losing his virginity. Featuring a vibrant cast of supporting characters from school friends to rock stars, and built up from notebooks, diaries, interviews, letters, and issues of his now legendary fanzine Jamming!, this is an evocative, bittersweet, amusing, and wholly original account of growing up and coming of age in the glory days of the 1970s.

About Town

Author : Ben Yagoda
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
ISBN : 9780684816050

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Illuminated by interviews with more than fifty people, including the late Joseph Mitchell, William Steig, Roger Angell, Calvin Trillin, Pauline Kael, John Updike, and Ann Beattie, About Town penetrates the inner workings of the New Yorker as no other book has done."--BOOK JACKET.

Our Town

Author : Kevin Jack McEnroe
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781619027398

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Our Town is the debut of a striking literary voice, one that captures the disillusion at the fringes of Hollywood as seen through a haze of drugs, alcohol, abuse, and fallen aspirations. An unseen narrator guides us through the dark fairy tale of Dorothy White, an aspiring actress who "never quite figured how to get out of her own way." Her perfect marriage to an equally golden actor, Dale, quickly turns into one of jealousy and violence. Dorothy ends the marriage yet begins a legacy of self–destruction for the failed couple, as well as their two children, Clover and Dylan. But we see the pathos in Dorothy's attempts to get back on track, to be a good woman, mother, and grandmother. Throughout the novel, she is left in the wake of decisions that turn disastrous. Her downward spiral from elusive fame into consistent infamy—a series of DUIs, the continuing neglect of her children, a string of failed and unhealthy relationships—is not without its grace, with the warmth of her character shining through her spackled makeup and cloud of acrid perfume. In many ways, Dorothy White is an anti–heroine for the ages—"vanilla voiced," bewigged, loving, and ever radiant —a sympathetic character caught in the riptide of her transformation from small–town southern girl to one–time toast of Hollywood to embarrassing tabloid fodder. Our Town is an original and startling debut novel, one whose fresh voice and expert perspective reinvents the Hollywood story for a new generation of readers.

Bear about Town

Author : Stella Blackstone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-08-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9798888593097

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Bear about Town by Stella Blackstone Pdf

Now in Barefoot Baby-Proof format! Walk down to town with Bear and discover all the different businesses and settings. The rhyming text teaches days of the week, and is complemented by a full-spread map of the town at the end. Barefoot Baby-Proof books are chewable, bendable, and washable.

Going Back to T-Town

Author : Carmen Fields
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806192536

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Countless young people in the Midwest, South, and Southwest went to dances and stage shows in the early to mid-twentieth century to hear a territory band play. Territory bands traveled from town to town, performing jazz and swing music, and Tulsa-based musician Ernie Fields (1904–97) led one of the best. In Going Back to T-Town, Ernie’s daughter, Carmen Fields, tells a story of success, disappointment, and perseverance, extending from the early jazz era to the 1960s. This is an enlightening account of how this talented musician and businessman navigated the hurdles of racial segregation during the Jim Crow era. Because few territory bands made recordings, their contributions to the development of jazz music are often overlooked. Fortunately, Ernie Fields not only recorded music but also loved telling stories. He shared his “tales from the road” with his daughter, a well-known Boston journalist, and his son, Ernie Fields Jr., who has carried on his legacy as a successful musician and music contractor. As much as possible, Carmen Fields tells her father’s story in his own voice: how he weathered the ups and downs of the music industry and maintained his optimism even while he faced entrenched racial prejudice and threats of violence. After traveling with his band all over the United States, Fields eventually caught the attention of renowned music producer John Hammond. In 1939, Hammond arranged for recording sessions and bookings that included performances in the famed Apollo Theater in New York. Ernie finally scored a top-ten hit in 1959 with his rock-and-roll rendition of “In the Mood.” At a time when most other territory bands had faded, the Ernie Fields Orchestra continued to perform. A devoted husband and family man, Ernie Fields also respected and appreciated his fellow musicians. The book includes a “Roll Call” of his organization’s members, based on notes he kept about them. Going Back to T-Town is a priceless source of information for historians of American popular music and African American history.

That's where the Town's Going

Author : Tad Mosel
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : American drama
ISBN : 0822211300

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THE STORY: In the words of the NY Daily News, the play deals with the humdrum life led by two aging sisters whom time has temporarily turned into rivals for the affections of one man, whom, in their youth, they wanted no part of. Locale of the pla

No Going Back

Author : Jemi Fraser
Publisher : Jemi Fraser @ Just Jemi Books
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781990092473

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An emergency SOS from his past gives him a purpose--and a target on his back Sean Falcone hasn’t been able to find a place since leaving the military. He needs a mission. When his buddy’s little sister texts a mysterious SOS, he hurries to help her out. Hoping to keep her safe, he heads north to Phail, Vermont. As they grow closer, he realizes his mission isn’t to find a place, it’s to find a person. When the threat follows them to Vermont, he’ll risk it all to keep her safe. *** No Going Back is the second book in Jemi Fraser's No Fail Heroes romantic suspense series. Each of these small-town romances can be read as a stand-alone. The book contains some strong language and sexy times. Enjoy the read!

The Sounds around Town

Author : Maria Carluccio
Publisher : Barefoot Books
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781782859727

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Overflowing with the sounds a baby experiences during his daily jaunt around the city with Mommy, this busy, interactive book offers an opportunity to accelerate babies’ and toddlers’ listening and speaking skills.

Cat about Town

Author : Léa Decan
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06
Category : Cats
ISBN : 1849767599

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Cat about Town by Léa Decan Pdf

A playful and cheeky picture book about the typical day for a cat about town Lisa has a very important cat. He always has lots of appointments to keep in town and has an extremely busy schedule! Each day he slips off on his travels but where does he go? On Mondays he visits Sebastian the writer who wears big glasses and lives on the fourth floor. Then on Tuesday the cat simply must visit Mina and her balcony full of flowers. On Wednesday it's extremely important that he makes time to see Granny Yvonne for lunch. . . . Join the cat on this enchanting journey, visiting all his favorite people, and explore the creative lives of writers, musicians, painters, and gardeners. Who knows where this beloved cat will go next?