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Author : Darwin Lambert
Publisher : Roberts Rinehart
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781461663980
A history of this national park written in conjunction with its 50th anniversary.
Author : Katrina M. Powell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813928531
With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be "donated" to the federal government and placed under the auspices of the National Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation of their land, the residents began writing letters to National Park and other government officials to negotiate their rights and to request various services, property, and harvests. Typically represented in the popular media as lawless, illiterate, and incompetent, these mountaineers prove themselves otherwise in this poignant collection of letters. The history told by the residents themselves both adds to and counters the story that is generally accepted about them. These letters are housed in the Shenandoah National Park archives in Luray, Virginia, which was opened briefly to the public from 2000 to 2002, but then closed due to lack of funding. This selection of roughly 150 of these letters, in their entirety, makes these documents available again not only to the public but also to scholars, researchers, and others interested in the region's history, in the politics of the park, and in the genealogy of the families. Supplementing the letters are introductory text, photographs, annotation, and oral histories that further document the lives of these individuals.
Author : Carolyn Reeder,Jack Reeder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X002227950
Author : Robert C. Gildart,Jane Gildart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493016853
Completely updated, this edition provides detailed descriptions and maps of the best hikes in the park. From easy day hikes to strenuous backpacking trips, this guide will provide readers with all the latest information they need to plan virtually any type of hiking adventure in the park.
Author : Jane Gildart,Bert Gildart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493062249
Shenandoah National Park is a hiker's wonderland, with challenging treks, enchanting sights, popular trails and tranquil escapes. With more than 500 miles of trails, the park offers a wide variety of terrain and history. This guide provides everything you need to know to explore 59 of the greatest hiking adventures in Virginia's National Park.
Author : Bert Gildart
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780762753796
Author : Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780803265394
For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park. With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death,” and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park—a relationship she would not have without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes. Purchase the audio edition.
Author : Ann Simpson,Rob Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781493067244
This field guide dedicated to wildlife of Shenandoah National Park is an information-packed book that introduces park visitors to animals, plants, insects and more that reside in the Shenandoah Valley in a colorful, easy-to-use package. Including full-color photos and easy-to-understand descriptions and with full cooperation from the park association, this book will appeal to the 1.1 million visitors who travel to Shenandoah every year.
Author : Russ Manning
Publisher : The Mountaineers Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-31
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781594852893
* 75 trails and 70 scenic overlooks in Virginia's Shenandoah National Park * Guidebook includes maps and hiking descriptions Shenandoah National Park lies along the crest of the Blue Ridge Mountains of northeast Virginia, encompassing 196,000 acres, including 80,000 acres of federally designated wilderness. The trails in this thorough guidebook will take hikers along the peaks of the Blue Ridge, past waterfalls, and down into lush canyons. In addition to the detailed trail descriptions, you'll find information about park history, plants and animals, geology, and human history, plus some highlights of the 105-mile Skyline Drive.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : National parks and reserves
ISBN : MINN:31951P00957161Z
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030175855
Author : Laura Alice Watt
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780520277076
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Author : Klara Stephanie Szlezák,Melissa M. Bender
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000702224
Against the backdrop of two recent socio-political developments—the shift from the Obama to the Trump administration and the surge in nationalist and populist sentiment that ushered in the current administration—Contested Commemoration in U.S. History presents eleven essays focused on practices of remembering contested events in America’s national history. This edited volume contains fresh interpretations of public history and collective memory that explore the evolving relationship between the U.S. and its past. The individual chapters investigate efforts to memorialize events or interrogate instances of historical sanitization at the expense of less partial representations that would include other perspectives. The primary source material and geography covered is extensive; contributors use historic sites and monuments, photographs, memoirs, textbooks, periodicals, music, and film to discuss the periods from colonial America, through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars up until the Vietnam War, Civil Rights movement, and Cold War, to explore how the commemoration of those eras resonates in the twenty-first century. Through a range of commemoration media and primary sources, the authors illuminate themes and arguments that are indispensable to students, scholars, and practitioners interested in Public History and American Studies more broadly.
Author : Ann Denkler
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0739119915
Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage examines the complex web of public history, race, cultural identity, and tourism in Luray, Virginia, a rural Southern town. The "texts" associated with this town's public history--tourist brochures, promotional narratives, historic homes, memorials, and monuments--are devoted to the founding eighteenth-century families and Confederate soldiers in Luray's past, but they also marginalize the history and heritage of African Americans and American Indians, and nearly obliterate the history of women in this region. Thus, the public history does not reflect the actual history of this town. A close look at one town helps to debunk the ideas and ideologies of the existence of a monolithic "South", since the term could mean Mississippi, North Carolina, or somewhere-in-between. Luray and the Shenandoah Valley, with their distinctive geographical, economical, architectural, and cultural history can boast of its own discrete "southern" identity. The book reveals how African-American texts and history reveal contributions to the town of Luray and the Shenandoah Valley region. The book studies the "Ol' Slave Auction Block", a controversial public history site that subverts the white, hegemonic heritage of the town. Sustaining Identity, Recapturing Heritage is groundbreaking in its study of African-American tourism.
Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2102 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781466620391
Developments in technologies have evolved in a much wider use of technology throughout science, government, and business; resulting in the expansion of geographic information systems. GIS is the academic study and practice of presenting geographical data through a system designed to capture, store, analyze, and manage geographic information. Geographic Information Systems: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is a collection of knowledge on the latest advancements and research of geographic information systems. This book aims to be useful for academics and practitioners involved in geographical data.