Author: John Sherwood
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1995-10
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780801852497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For more than two years, John Sherwood roamed Maryland's small towns and city neighborhoods, traveled Appalachian back roads, and sailed the Chesapeake looking for people whose work or way of life recalled the state's rich and varied tradition. Maryland's Vanishing Lives is his vivid account of the people he met on those journeys. Working in a country store or an old-time movie house, on a small tobacco farm or a weathered skipjack, Sherwood's subjects interest us as people, as stubborn survivors who have watched—sometimes defiantly, sometimes wistfully—as the world moved on. These Marylanders' stories poignantly show what happens to family businesses and ordinary folk in the face of new technology, suburban sprawl, franchise outlets, and changing tastes. But Maryland's Vanishing Lives is also an engaging celebration of pride and craft, and the ability to survive. In this collection of sixty-six short profiles, illustrated with memorable photographs by Edwin Remsberg, Sherwood preserves for posterity the lives of Marylanders who hang on to values and skills that are quickly disappearing.
Author: Hunter "Bunk" Mann
Publisher:
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781495139529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hunter "Bunk." Mann
Publisher:
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781495116001
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William T. Hornaday
Publisher:
Published: 2020-07-17
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 3752307161
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reproduction of the original: Our Vanishing Wild Life by William T. Hornaday
Author: William Temple Hornaday
Publisher:
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →William Temple Hornaday was the Director of the New York Zoological Society and the nation's leading advocate of wildlife conservation in this era. This unsparing manifesto was written to accompany Hornaday's launching of the Permanent Wildlife Protection Fund; it is thus (in the words of the historian Stephen Fox) both "a campaign tract" and "one of the first books wholly devoted to endangered wild animals" (John Muir and His Legacy: The American Conservation Movement [Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1981], p. 149). It is also a landmark of conservation history which had a profound effect on the thought of Aldo Leopold, among others. The book surveys the history and causes of wildlife destruction in America and elsewhere, and sets forth a lengthy program to ensure the protection of remaining wildlife for the future, often in militant and moralistic terms. The work also throws light on some of the complexities inherent in the conservation movement at this time: for example, Hornaday accepts the classification of certain bird and mammalian predators as "noxious" or "vermin" and appropriate for destruction (pp. 77-81); there is no criticism here of the massive campaign for the extermination of wolves and coyotes being sponsored at the time by the Bureau of Biological Survey. On a more general level, Hornaday's fulminations against Italian immigrants as incorrigible bird-killers suggest a connection between nativism and conservationism, while his excoriations of market hunters set forth a deeply-rooted class bias shared by many leading conservationists.
Author: William B. Cronin
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-06-17
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780801874352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.
Author: Henry J. Browne
Publisher:
Published: 2022-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780999131022
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vanishing History: Ruins in Maryland roughly parallels its Virginia counterpart (Vanishing History: Ruins in Virginia, published in 2017). The Maryland volume explores a sampling of equally fascinating ruins including residences, barns, houses of worship, kilns and furnaces, mills, industries, dams, canal houses, railroad bridges and bridge piers. It likewise features the vision of Henry J. Browne alongside the excellent photography of Kevin MacNutt, and is intended to promote pondering; pique curiosity; honor the skills, needs, challenges and creativity of those who came before us; and encourage honest reflection about the spirit of progress and the inevitability of time. Similarly noted are the ravages of neglect and nature that have become evident to us long after the sites were abandoned and human ambition was redirected. Unique to each site, however, are the details not only of construction and decline, but also the possibilities each has for preservation and repurposing.Specific sites include the Thistle Mill houses, Gapland, Marshall Hall, Catoctin, Genesar; barns in Thurmont, Creagersville, Frederic and Hancock; houses of worship (Daniels Pentecostal Holiness, Herald of Hope Baptist, Eakle's Mill Church, Coventry Parish Church, St. Mark's Lutheran in Rohrersville, St. John's Chapel of St. Michael's Parish, Terra Maria Complex); and Lonaconing Iron Furnace, Nassawango Iron Furnace, Watson Lane Lime Kiln, Hood's Mill, Poplar Grove Mill, Roxbury Gristmill and Distillery, Seneca Stone Cutting Mill, Round Top Hill Cement Company, Maryland Mine Company, Lonaconing Silk Plant, Savage Mill Powerhouse, Daniels Dam, Laurel Cotton Mill Dam, C&O Canal House, Lockhouses 25 and 51, Jarboe's Store, and McCoys Ferry.
Author: Salvatore J. LaGumina
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 733
ISBN-13: 1135583331
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Kenneth D. Durr
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780807854334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this nuanced look at white working-class life and politics in twentieth-century America, Kenneth Durr takes readers into the neighborhoods, workplaces, and community institutions of blue-collar Baltimore in the decades after World War II. Challengin