Legendary Locals Of Wayland

Author : Evelyn Wolfson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467101912

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Legendary Locals of Wayland by Evelyn Wolfson Pdf

Wayland's historic district is dominated by the 1815 First Parish Church, designed and built by Andrews Palmer of Newburyport, who adapted an Asher Benjamin design. The Rev. Edmund Sears served as minister for 17 years and wrote "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" for a First Parish Sunday school celebration in 1849. Wealthy Bostonians soon established summer homes in town. Willard Austin Bullard purchased the residence beside the church and christened it Kirkside, and William Power Perkins purchased Mainstone Farm and established the first Guernsey cow farm in the state. By the mid- to late 1800s, Cochituate Village was dominated by a well-established shoe industry and stately Victorian homes lined the streets. A little more than a century later, the town was preparing for an influx of folks from the city. Howard Russell and Allen Benjamin created an official town map, designating streets, and delineating the established uses for the town's 15.2 square miles. Thanks to the vision and hard work of these men and others like them, the town still retains a semblance of its rural atmosphere with almost 3,000 acres of permanently protected open space.

Author : Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467101301

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Legendary Locals of Jamestown by Rosemary Enright and Sue Maden Pdf

When Caleb Carr, one of the 101 men who purchased Conanicut and Dutch Islands in 1657, petitioned the General Assembly to incorporate Jamestown in 1678, the town had 150 inhabitants. The community thrived until the American Revolution, when the British occupation drove away many people. Nicholas Carr and John Eldred both remained, rebelling in their own ways. The town recovered slowly, and its character changed with modernized modes of transportation. Steam ferries, introduced in 1873, ushered in an era of resort hotels, affluent summer visitors, and a service economy. The West Passage bridge in 1940 brought permanent residents with off-island occupations and interests. The East Passage bridge (1969) and the replacement West Passage bridge (1992) created a suburban atmosphere enlivened by a continuing influx of summer vacationers. Most newcomers revel in the island's beauty and are intent on keeping Jamestown the peaceful haven that attracted them.

Author : Suzanne Stotesbury
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781439656822

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Legendary Locals of Washington by Suzanne Stotesbury Pdf

Located on the banks of the Pamlico River, Washington has been home to many famous, infamous, and unique people over the years. Springing from the community of Forks of the Tar under the watchful eyes of the everlasting Blount family, the town has grown from a small shipping port into a prominent county seat. Many pivotal people have called Washington home. William Blount, son of town founding father John Gray Blount, signed the US Constitution before scandal drove him from his Senate seat and into exile in Tennessee. Filmmaker Cecil DeMille was raised here. It is a place where opportunity has been available no matter the time period. Susan Dimock broke the gender barrier by becoming a physician and Joan Little's violation in a local jail led to a precedent-setting legal battle. Ed Peed served valiantly as a fireman, and his death during a great waterfront fire shook people of all classes and races in the community. The people of Washington, from the founding families to the artistic community that thrives today, have defined the town seen today.

Author : R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439650493

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Legendary Locals of the Northern Outer Banks by R. Wayne Gray,Nancy Beach Gray Pdf

The remoteness and isolation of North Carolina’s northern Outer Banks has shaped both early settlers and relative newcomers into tough and independent souls. Sir Walter Raleigh’s colonists may have mysteriously disappeared from Roanoke Island, but the enterprising homesteaders who followed managed to eke out a living on the windswept and battered banks. Entrepreneur E.R. Daniels ran a line of mail and freight boats that helped connect the Outer Banks to the outside world. Former slave and Civil War hero Richard Etheridge did not shirk from an opportunity to become the first black keeper of a lifesaving station. In the mid-20th century, leaders like Bradford Fearing saw the importance of developing tourism, so that people would come see Paul Green’s new outdoor drama, The Lost Colony. Outer Bankers have warmly welcomed visitors, from the time the Wright brothers arrived to today’s modern tourists. The challenge now is to balance commercial growth with environmental sensibility so that oystermen, like Georgie Daniels, and fishermen, like Dewey Hemilwright, can continue to ply the waters.

Author : Dave Hutchinson
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781837860319

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Sanctuary by Dave Hutchinson Pdf

After the war in the Parish, Adam is looking forward to a period of peace, but his superiors have other ideas. There are rumours from Oxford and the Cotswolds that Father John - who once almost overthrew Plymouth - is building an army, and someone has to go and investigate. Arriving in Oxford, Adam is surprised to find a thriving city with a healthy populace and technology not seen since before the fall of The Sisters. He also finds it patrolled by the descendants of the Thames Valley Police, among them Detective Inspector Leonie Mellow. However, it doesn't not take long for dark events to concern Adam. Murders, paint-splashed graffiti on walls, people going missing - and he can't help but wonder if the past is following him.

Author : Peter J. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038266529

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Progressivism and the World of Reform by Peter J. Coleman Pdf

In this major reinterpretation of the Progressive era, Peter Coleman argues that the American welfare state had its origins in what he calls the "world-wide crisis of capitalism." Here and abroad, reformers, no longer content to treat the symptoms of distress, sought to achieve social, political, and economic justice by abandoning laissez faire in favor of governmental intervention. This study thoroughly documents the external forces that shaped the American Progressive movement and shows that the reformers' agenda for change drew heavily on foreign ideas and models as well as the American reform tradition. Tracing the international cross-currents of reform ideas, Coleman demonstrates that for nearly three decades American reformers of every stripe regarded the Australasian colonies, especially New Zealand, as examples of what the United States could become. Thus inspired, American reformers worked for such goals as wage-and-hour legislation for women, abolition of child labor, workmen's compensation laws, compulsory arbitration of labor disputes, land reform, cheap loans for farmers, old-age pensions, and infant and maternal care programs. Through these and other measures that touched all aspects of the nation's life, the role of government was enlarged. By placing progressivism within an international context, Coleman deepens our understanding of a phenomenon previously seen as distinctively American, thereby clarifying both the substance and process of change in this country. He also argues that in the Progressive era can be seen the origins of the regulations and mixed economy of the modern welfare state.

Author : Ch. W. E. Bardsley
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 857 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9785871144015

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A dictionary of English and Welsh surnames by Ch. W. E. Bardsley Pdf

Author : British Archaeological Association
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Archaeology
ISBN : UVA:X004352914

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Journal of the British Archaeological Association by British Archaeological Association Pdf

Author : Reading (England). Public Libraries
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Berkshire (England)
ISBN : UCAL:$B659042

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Local Collection Catalogue of Books and Maps Relating to Berkshire by Reading (England). Public Libraries Pdf

Author : Gary Dorrien
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780300253764

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American Democratic Socialism by Gary Dorrien Pdf

A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists “The movement whose tangled history Gary Dorrien tells in American Democratic Socialism has deep roots in the very ‘American’ values it is accused of undermining. . . . The version of the socialist left that emerges is one that deserves more attention.”—Hari Kunzru, New York Review of Books Democratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a consequence of a widespread recognition that global capitalism works only for a minority and is harming the planet’s ecology. This history of American democratic socialism from its beginning to the present day interprets the efforts of American socialists to address and transform multiple intersecting sites of injustice and harm. Comprehensive, deeply researched, and highly original, this book offers a luminous synthesis of secular and religious socialisms, detailing both their intellectual and their organizational histories.

Author : Susan Ware
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807834541

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Game, Set, Match by Susan Ware Pdf

Argues that Billie Jean King's 1973 defeat of male player Bobby Riggs in tennis' Battle of the Sexes match helped, along with the passage of the Title IX anti-sex discrimination act, cause a revolution in women's sports.

Author : Laura Ruby,Ross Wayland Stephenson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738593005

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Honolulu Town by Laura Ruby,Ross Wayland Stephenson Pdf

Before Honolulu became one of the most popular tourist destinations in the world, there was a small Hawai'ian settlement at the edge of a natural harbor known as Kou. Named Kou for the sheltering, orange-blossomed trees, the area was ideal for launching canoes for fishing and cultivating fields adjacent to the Nuuanu Stream. In 1845, King Kamehameha III moved the permanent capital of the Hawai'ian Kingdom from Lahaina to O'ahu, and the Honolulu we know today started to take shape. The name Honolulu means protected harbor and that is what the tropic paradise must have felt like as the city began to grow in commerce and resources. Americans began to flock in from the mainland as tourists, businessmen, and missionaries, and immigrants from around the world traveled to this small island to begin a new life. Successive waves of immigrants came to this port town, bringing with them new religions, architecture, education, foods, and social mores. The small confines of this town encouraged cross-pollination of peoples and ideas that fostered the unique neighborhoods that give Honolulu its character.

Author : George Munford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : English language
ISBN : CHI:20507968

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An Attempt to Ascertain the True Derivation of the Names of Towns and Villages and of Rivers, and Other Great Natural Features of the County of Norfolk by George Munford Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-24
Category : Law
ISBN : OSU:32437010719397

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Christopher Golden
Publisher : JournalStone
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781947654747

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King of Hell by Christopher Golden Pdf

Peter Octavian's powerful sorcery guards his world against evil. Now he must go on a perilous journey to save those condemned to a fate worse than death itself…When Octavian called upon Gaea to rid the Earth of demons, her magic banished not only the demons but also the Shadows - vampires who had foresworn evil and fought alongside him, some for many years. Together with two unlikely companions - a wise-cracking goblin with the ability to walk the paths between worlds, and a demon changeling struggling to come to terms with what he is - Octavian sets out on what seems to be an impossible mission: to free his friends from Hell. There he finds some unexpected figures from his past - and an enemy of his own making, driven by an implacable hatred, whose power is equal to his own and whose quest for vengeance is personal…