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Author : Dan Manoyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39076002868649
The story of the Granite City High School team that won the 1940 Illinois High School Association championship.
Author : Jim Fiddes
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750991186
Granite is the most unyielding of building materials. The great granite quarries of the North East are silent now, as are virtually all of the 100 granite yards that existed in Aberdeen around the year 1900. Yet in its time, the granite industry of north-east Scotland was the engine that built civilisations. As early as the sixteenth century, granite from Aberdeen and its vicinities was building castles. In the heyday of the mid-nineteenth century, the granite men of the North East hewed this material from the bowels of the earth and used it to fashion the iconic structures that defined the age. It paved the streets and embankments of London. It was used to build bridges over the Thames. It was carved into monuments for kings and commoners not only in Britain but all over the world. None of it possible without the men that toiled in those quarries and yards. This is the story of those granite men and their industry.
Author : Mari Tomasi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Barre (Vt.)
ISBN : 1881535460
Selection of 55 (from more than 120 original) interviews originally conducted 1938-1940 as part of the Federal Writers' Project in Vermont.
Author : Dan Manoyan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1434342697
Any resemblance of the hardscrabble Southern Illinois community of Granite City, with its teeming, carbon-belching steel mills, to Heaven, is purely coincidental. But it looked like the Pearlie Gates to the Hungarian, Armenian, Yugoslavian and Macedonian immigrants, who left behind genocide and oppression, intent on building a better life for their families. Perceptions die hard and the impression of the inhabitants of the Lincoln Place ghetto, the wrong side of the Granite City tracks, was not a good one. Enter the Men of Granite. Athletics can be a powerful agent for change in society and the weapon of choice for a determined group of young men from Lincoln Place was basketball. They were weaned on the sport at the Lincoln Place Center, a settlement house built by their parents with materials provided by the steel mills. They mastered the game by playing it, day after day, hour after hour. They learned discipline at the hands of the master, bespectacled mighty-mite Sophia Prather, a former school teacher who considered her work at Lincoln Place Center a higher calling. Although the sons of Lincoln Place Center played the game at a high skill level, their ascension to the Granite City High School basketball team wasn't a given. The old school perception was that basketball was an American game and foreigners didn't have the essentials necessary to succeed. It took an athlete with the stature of Andy Phillip, born Andras Fulop of sturdy Hungarian stock, to debunk that notion. Phillip, who would go on to star for the University of Illinois' Whiz Kids and play 11 years in the NBA, was a Granite City starter from the time he was a sophomore. He opened the eyes of Granite City'sbasketball coach, and eventually opened doors to the untapped wealth of basketball talent from Lincoln Place. By Phillip's senior year, all five starters - the Hungarian, two Armenians, a Yugoslav and a Macedonian - were products of Lincoln Place. They were an unorthodox and superstitious lot - running plays in Armenian to confuse opponents among other things - but their steely resolve and dedication to teamwork made them champions. They became the first team in Illinois High School history to suffer a tournament loss and emerge as the state champions. To do that, the Warriors overcame deficits after three quarters in their quarter-final, semi-final and championship encounters. Their hard-knocks background prepared them well to be the quintessential comeback kids of high school sports. Basketball was only a game for the Men of Granite, but they played it well.
Author : Frederick Ludwig Hoffman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Dust
ISBN : HARVARD:HJ2AWY
Author : Brendan McDonough
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316308151
The true story behind the events that inspired the major motion picture Only the Brave. A "unique and bracing" (Booklist) first-person account by the sole survivor of Arizona's disastrous 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire, which took the lives of 19 "hotshots"--firefighters trained specifically to battle wildfires. Brendan McDonough was on the verge of becoming a hopeless, inveterate heroin addict when he, for the sake of his young daughter, decided to turn his life around. He enlisted in the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team of elite firefighters based in Prescott, Arizona. Their leader, Eric Marsh, was in a desperate crunch after four hotshots left the unit, and perhaps seeing a glimmer of promise in the skinny would-be recruit, he took a chance on the unlikely McDonough, and the chance paid off. Despite the crew's skepticism, and thanks in large part to Marsh's firm but loving encouragement, McDonough unlocked a latent drive and dedication, going on to successfully battle a number of blazes and eventually win the confidence of the men he came to call his brothers. Then, on June 30, 2013, while McDonough--"Donut" as he'd been dubbed by his team--served as lookout, they confronted a freak, 3,000-degree inferno in nearby Yarnell, Arizona. The relentless firestorm ultimately trapped his hotshot brothers, tragically killing all 19 of them within minutes. Nationwide, it was the greatest loss of firefighter lives since the 9/11 attacks. Granite Mountain is a gripping memoir that traces McDonough's story of finding his way out of the dead end of drugs, finding his purpose among the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and the minute-by-minute account of the fateful day he lost the very men who had saved him. A harrowing and redemptive tale of resilience in the face of tragedy, Granite Mountain is also a powerful reminder of the heroism of the people who put themselves in harm's way to protect us every day.
Author : Aimee Gagnon Fogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1478708506
"He was all I had left."-Mother of SGT William Dierauer, KIA 11/29/44...They rest in a distant land they fought to liberate nearly 70 years ago, their lives ended by war and their stories quieted by time. For 38 New Hampshire World War Two soldiers buried in Belgium, their stories are brought to life once again in The Granite Men of Henri-Chapelle. As WWII drew to an end in 1945, the New Hampshire state legislature adopted "Live Free or Die" as the state's motto. At the same time, many families throughout the Granite state and the rest of the country prepared to welcome home their service members who had fought to preserve freedom around the world. Thirty-eight New Hampshire servicemen, however, would not be returning home. Instead, they remained in Europe, resting permanently at the sprawling 57-acre American military cemetery called Henri-Chapelle in Belgium. These are not war stories. They are an attempt to illustrate each civilian life before the war as well as capture the essence of the person behind the military rank-to allow each one an opportunity to share his life once again, a life he sacrificed in the pursuit of liberty for his fellow man. As New Hampshire's statesman Daniel Webster stated on his deathbed in 1852, "I still live." So too do the men of Henri-Chapelle in this touching and important new book.
Author : Duane E. Shaffer
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1570037515
"Men of Granite is a thorough history of New Hampshire combat troops in the years before and during the Civil War. Focusing On the day-to-day experiences of the common soldier and his reasons for taking up the fight against the Confederacy, Shaffer has mined myriad primary sources to draw together the experiences of all of the state's regiments and units into this single, cohesive volume." "Further enhanced by twenty illustrations and twelve maps, Shaffer's detailed survey reinserts the story of New Hampshire forces into the annals of Civil War history and, through frequent quotation of soldiers' own accounts, gives voice to the motivations and daily experiences of determined Union forces from the Granite State."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Stuart MacBride
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780007298976
The very first Logan McRae novel in the No.1 bestselling crime series from Stuart MacBride. DS Logan McRae and the police in Aberdeen hunt a child killer who stalks the frozen streets.
Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : UOM:39015006902673
Author : Lance Betros
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603447874
The United States Military Academy at West Point is one of America’s oldest and most revered institutions. Founded in 1802, its first and only mission is to prepare young men—and, since 1976, young women—to be leaders of character for service as commissioned officers in the United States Army. West Point’s success in accomplishing that mission has secured its reputation as the foremost leadership-development institution in the world. An Academy promotional poster says it this way: “At West Point, much of the history we teach was made by people we taught.” Carved from Granite is the story of how West Point goes about producing military leaders of character. An opening chapter on the Academy’s nineteenth-century history provides context for the topic of each subsequent chapter. As scholar and Academy graduate Lance Betros shows, West Point’s early history is interesting and colorful, but its history since then is far more relevant to the issues—and problems—that face the Academy today. Drawing from oral histories, archival sources, and his own experiences as a cadet and, later, a faculty member, Betros describes and assesses how well West Point has accomplished its mission. And, while West Point is an impressive institution in many ways, Betros does not hesitate to expose problems and challenge long-held assumptions. In a concluding chapter that is both subjective and interpretive, the author offers his prescriptions for improving the institution, focusing particularly on the areas of governance, admissions, and intercollegiate athletics. Photographs, tables, charts, and other graphics aid the clarity of the discussion and lend visual and historical interest. Carved from Granite: West Point since 1902 is the most authoritative history of the modern United States Military Academy written to date. There will be lively debate over some of the observations made in this book, but if they are followed, the author asserts that the Academy will emerge stronger and better able to accomplish its vital mission in the new century and beyond.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044048605083
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : CUB:U183021671175
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1918
Category : Granite industry and trade
ISBN : UOM:39015068025942
Author : United States. National Labor Relations Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1348 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Labor laws and legislation
ISBN : UIUC:30112105116393