History Of Back Creek A Bent Mountain Poages Mill Cave Spring And Starkey

Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625859709

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History of Back Creek, A: Bent Mountain, Poages Mill, Cave Spring and Starkey by Nelson Harris Pdf

"Since Europeans first settled along the banks of Back Creek in the 1740s, southwest Roanoke County's history has been as fluid as the creek itself. The once dense forest with log cabins gave way to the sprawling suburbs of the present. The colonial-era Trader's Path that directed Scots-Irish homesteaders, the growth of the apple industry in Bent Mountain after the Civil War, a state highway built by convicts during the Depression and Cave Spring becoming a modern commercial center have shaped the region. The changing picture of daily life in Back Creek spanning two centuries emerges in stories of one-room schoolhouses, doctors on horseback, country stores, local baseball and NASCAR races at Starkey. Local historian Nelson Harris details the eclectic history of the area." -- Page [4] of cover.

Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439671917

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The Roanoke Valley in the 1940s by Nelson Harris Pdf

The history of the Roanoke Valley during the 1940s has largely been unexplored until now. This significant decade bore witness to the birth of the local civil rights movement, the impact of World War II and the postwar boom in public projects and private development. The J-Class locomotives, Carver School, Woodrum Field, Victory Stadium, Carvins Cove, the Roanoke Star, the end of streetcars, and the advent of drive-in theaters all marked the decade. Crowds thronged to see the biggest names in radio, film and music at the American Legion Auditorium, the Academy of Music and the Roanoke Theatre, while Major League baseball and professional football brought exhibition games to Maher Field and Victory Stadium. Local historian Nelson Harris provides a detailed account of this dynamic decade along with 300 archival photographs.

Author : Mills Kelly
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467153393

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Virginia's Lost Appalachian Trail by Mills Kelly Pdf

Walk in the footsteps of Virginia's earliest hikers. For more than two decades hikers on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia walked through some of the most beautiful landscapes of the southern mountains. Then, in 1952, the Appalachian Trail Conference moved the trail more than 50 miles to the west. Lost in that move were opportunities to scramble over the Pinnacles of Dan, to sit on Fisher's Peak and gaze out over the North Carolina Piedmont, or to cross the New River on a flat-bottomed boat called Redbud for a nickel. Historian and lifelong hiker Mills Kelly tells the story of a 300-mile section of the Appalachian Trail that is all but forgotten by hikers, but not by the residents of the Southwestern Virginia counties that the trail used to cross.

Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625840639

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Hidden History of Roanoke by Nelson Harris Pdf

How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New York? These questions and many more are answered in this exciting volume of hidden stories and forgotten tales from the Star City. Discover why a Roanoker was found frozen in the North Atlantic and what Mother's Day crime and trial shocked the city in 1949. Meet the Black Cardinals, a semipro African American baseball team that played in the 1930s and '40s, and find out how a fistfight at Shenandoah Life helped save the company. Author Nelson Harris delves into the annals of history to uncover these marvelous and mostly unknown stories of the Star City of the South.

Author : William C. Wooldridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 081393267X

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Mapping Virginia by William C. Wooldridge Pdf

A comprehensive collection of printed maps from the state of Virginia's history, from the years preceding Jamestown to the beginning of the postbellum era.

Author : James Joyce
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547806448

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ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series) by James Joyce Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Ulysses is a modernist novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature, and has been called "a demonstration and summation of the entire movement". Ulysses chronicles the peripatetic appointments and encounters of Leopold Bloom in Dublin in the course of an ordinary day, 16 June 1904. Ulysses is the Latinised name of Odysseus, the hero of Homer's epic poem Odyssey, and the novel establishes a series of parallels between its characters and events and those of the poem (the correspondence of Leopold Bloom to Odysseus, Molly Bloom to Penelope, and Stephen Dedalus to Telemachus). Joyce divided Ulysses into 18 chapters or "episodes". At first glance much of the book may appear unstructured and chaotic; Joyce once said that he had "put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant", which would earn the novel "immortality". James Joyce (1882-1941) was an Irish novelist and poet, considered to be one of the most influential writers in the modernist avant-garde of the early 20th century. Joyce is best known for Ulysses, the short-story collection Dubliners, and the novels A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegans Wake.

Author : Brian Eno
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780571364626

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A Year with Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno Pdf

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback edition.'One of the seminal books about music . . . an invaluable insight into the mind and working practices of one of the industry's undeniable geniuses.'GUARDIANAt the end of 1994, Brian Eno resolved to keep a diary. His plans to go to the cinema, theatre and galleries fell quickly to the wayside. What he did do - and write - however, was astonishing: ruminations on his collaborative work with David Bowie, U2, James and Jah Wobble, interspersed with correspondence and essays dating back to 1978. These 'appendices' covered topics from the generative and ambient music Eno pioneered to what he believed the role of an artist and their art to be, alongside adroit commentary on quotidian tribulations and happenings around the world.This beautiful 25th-anniversary hardcover edition has been redesigned in the same size as the diary that eventually became this book. It features two ribbons, pink paper delineating the appendices (matching the original edition) and a two-tone paper-over-board cover, which pays homage to the original design.An intimate insight into one of the most influential creative artists of our time, A Year with Swollen Appendices is an essential classic.

Author : David Graeber
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781501143335

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Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber Pdf

From bestselling writer David Graeber—“a master of opening up thought and stimulating debate” (Slate)—a powerful argument against the rise of meaningless, unfulfilling jobs…and their consequences. Does your job make a meaningful contribution to the world? In the spring of 2013, David Graeber asked this question in a playful, provocative essay titled “On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs.” It went viral. After one million online views in seventeen different languages, people all over the world are still debating the answer. There are hordes of people—HR consultants, communication coordinators, telemarketing researchers, corporate lawyers—whose jobs are useless, and, tragically, they know it. These people are caught in bullshit jobs. Graeber explores one of society’s most vexing and deeply felt concerns, indicting among other villains a particular strain of finance capitalism that betrays ideals shared by thinkers ranging from Keynes to Lincoln. “Clever and charismatic” (The New Yorker), Bullshit Jobs gives individuals, corporations, and societies permission to undergo a shift in values, placing creative and caring work at the center of our culture. This book is for everyone who wants to turn their vocation back into an avocation and “a thought-provoking examination of our working lives” (Financial Times).

Author : Donlan Piedmont, Nelson Harris, Lisa Fenderson & Anne Piedmont, Authorized by the Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation Inc.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467144834

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Hotel Roanoke: The Grand Old Lady on the Hill by Donlan Piedmont, Nelson Harris, Lisa Fenderson & Anne Piedmont, Authorized by the Virginia Tech Real Estate Foundation Inc. Pdf

Includes recipe for the hotel's pea soup and spoonbread.

Author : Charles E. Little
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801851408

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Greenways for America by Charles E. Little Pdf

A description of the citizen-led effort to get Americans out of their cars and into the landscape via greenways - linear open spaces that preserve and restore nature in cities, suburbs and rural areas. These can link parks and open spaces and provide corridors for wildlife migration.

Author : G.S. Jack
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9785876513847

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History of Roanoke County by G.S. Jack Pdf

Author : Helen R. Prillaman
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Roanoke (Va.)
ISBN : 9780806347066

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A Place Apart by Helen R. Prillaman Pdf

The Williamson Road area, which was annexed by the city of Roanoke in 1949, was originally a part of Botetourt County and thereafter of the northern part of Roanoke County. "A Place Apart" traces the history, places, and families of the Williamson Road. The book begins with various sketches of Roanoke Valley pioneers and early land owners. The second part of the volume continues with sketches of families that arrived during the late 18th or early 19th century, including Barren, Bushong, Campbell, Cannaday, Fellers, Garst, Harshbarger, Huntingdon, Nelms, Nininger, Oliver, Petty, Read, Rudd, Stokes, Watts, and Williamson. Community leaders associated with the Roanoke Valley's recent history are treated elsewhere in the book.

Author : John Ashton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Fleet River, (London, England)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044050966837

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The Fleet: Its River, Prison, and Marriages by John Ashton Pdf

Author : Virgil M. Harris
Publisher : Beard Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1587980711

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Ancient Curious and Famous Wills by Virgil M. Harris Pdf

An entertaining collection of wills, reflecting the times and the people who wrote them. This collection offers delightful reading for lawyers and laymen alike. As the author states: Wills reflect, as a mirror, the customs and habits of the times when written, as well as the characters of the writers. In the category of ancient wills, the reader will find the oldest written will, dated at 2550 B.C., as well as wills of such personages as Plato and Aristotle. Other categories in the collection include: wills in fiction and poetry; curious wills; testamentary and kindred miscellany; wills of famous foreigners, such as Napoleon and William Shakespeare; and wills of famous Americans, such as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

Author : C. J. Davison Ingledew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : OXFORD:N11483456

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The Ballads and Songs of Yorkshire by C. J. Davison Ingledew Pdf