Download or read book An American Hometown written by Tom Roznowski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They lived "green" out of necessity -- walking to work, repairing everything from worn shoes to wristwatches, recycling milk bottles and packing containers. Music was largely heard live and most residential streets had shade trees. The nearby Wabash River -- a repeated subject of story and song -- transported Sunday picnickers to public parks. In the form of an old-fashioned city directory, An American Hometown celebrates a bygone American era, focusing on life in 1920s Terre Haute, Indiana. With artfully drawn biographical sketches and generously illustrated histories, noted musician, historian, and storyteller Tom Roznowski not only evokes a beauty worth remembering, but also brings to light just how many of our modern ideas of sustainable living are deeply rooted in the American tradition.
Download or read book An American Hometown written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A storyteller looks at a bygone America.
Download or read book Hometown Inequality written by Brian F. Schaffner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local governments play a central role in American democracy, providing essential services such as policing, water, and sanitation. Moreover, Americans express great confidence in their municipal governments. But is this confidence warranted? Using big data and a representative sample of American communities, this book provides the first systematic examination of racial and class inequalities in local politics. We find that non-whites and less-affluent residents are consistent losers in local democracy. Residents of color and those with lower incomes receive less representation from local elected officials than do whites and the affluent. Additionally, they are much less likely than privileged community members to have their preferences reflected in local government policy. Contrary to the popular assumption that governments that are “closest” govern best, we find that inequalities in representation are most severe in suburbs and small towns. Typical reforms do not seem to improve the situation, and we recommend new approaches.
Download or read book Freehold written by Barbara Pepe and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lenni Lenape tribes once foraged where Freehold Raceway and development and rejuvination efforts flourish today in Freehold, seat of Monmouth County. Following European colonization in the mid-seventeenth century, this enterprising community perservered through a major battle and countless skirmishes in the American Revolution, immersion in the Civil War, rapid industrialization, and municipal reorganization. The residents overcame social and political strife, preserving spirit and courage to unify both borough and township for generations to come.
Download or read book My Hometown written by Russell Griesmer and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2016-07 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience small-town life and American history with this nearly wordless picture book.
Download or read book An American Hometown written by Robert Scott Bomboy and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An American Hometown" is the first comprehensive early history of Perkasie, Pennsylvania-a town created by the Victorian era that survived losing its cigar industry, fires, the Great Depression, and other struggles to remain a vital community today.The story begins with William Penn's early meeting at "Perkasie Indian Town" and concludes in August 1945, with World War II's end. Inside Perkasie's story of survival and growth are the experiences of former cigar makers who faced challenges and overcame them in difficult times. The book also includes details about the events leading up to Perkasie's recognition as a village in July 1871, using extensive primary sources unearthed from archives."An American Hometown" also uses contemporary accounts and federal census data to depict small-town life, and it includes images and records not seen before in public to tell the social and economic history of a typical American town.
Download or read book Hometown U S A written by Stephen W. Sears and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a way of life that no longer exists. It disappeared from the American landscape about the time of the Great War and yet it has left a permanent imprint on our national character. Using historical photographs, this book looks back to small-town America and what it was like to live at the turn of the 20th century.
Download or read book Home Town written by Tracy Kidder and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.
Download or read book America s Hometown Recipe Book written by Barbara Greenman and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2011-04-04 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of recipes gathered from picnics, church gatherings, and state and county fairs around the United States.
Download or read book Hometown written by Peter Davis and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2013-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminating the experiences of life in small-town America, award-winning writer for CBS News Peter Davis pens an ode to a small town thirty miles north of Cincinnati—documenting its strengths and struggles over the course of a year. After a scandal involving a high school teacher caught his interest, award-winning news writer Peter Davis spent a year studying life in Hamilton, Ohio. While examining the small town during an intense time of change, including segregation of schools and economic decline, Davis shares an honest, full scope view of the life in a small town during the 1960s. Hometown takes readers into the forces that unite and divide the small-town community of Hamilton through a look at politics, sports, marriage, crime, and social lives in a variety of classes.
Download or read book Hometown Appetites written by Kelly Alexander and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking biography of a pioneering American woman and one of our greatest culinary figures In Hometown Appetites, Kelly Alexander and Cynthia Harris come together to revive the legacy of the most important food writer you have never heard of. Clementine Paddleford was a Kansas farm girl who grew up to chronicle America's culinary habits. Her weekly readership at the New York Herald Tribune topped 12 million during the 1950s and 1960s and she earned a salary of $250,000. Yet twenty years after "America's best-known food editor" passed away, she had been forgotten--until now. Before Paddleford, newspaper food sections were dull primers on home economy. But she changed all of that, composing her own brand of sassy, unerringly authoritative prose designed to celebrate regional home cooking. This book restores Paddleford's name where it belongs: in the pantheon alongside greats like James Beard and Julia Child.
Download or read book Hometown Revelations written by Mark Usler and published by Dm Enterprises Incorporated. This book was released on 2006 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hometown Revelations, you will find many mysteries revealed! Some hometowns appear to have normal names but others have very unique stories. Most of the major cities and numerous smaller ones are included in this book where you discover how the town acquired its name. In addition, find out how your state obtained its name. Not everyone's hometown may be included but the clues and mysteries revealed about other communities may lead you to your own revelation.Did you know? There are a lot of people that call their hometown New York City. But there are also people who live in Defiance, Bliss, Hell, and Paradise! Some of our hometowns sound like dangerous places to live like Savage, Hazard, Tombstone, and Burnt Corn. There are hometowns that appear to be in the wrong locations. Why is Kansas City in Missouri and Paris in Tennessee? Are there Buffalo in New York? A few of us from Georgia live in Between.The names given to cities, towns, and states come from a number of sources. The origins of these names have evolved like the United States. Some of the names come from homesick settlers who wanted to remember their birthplaces. Other names originated from famous heroes and places that were known around the world. During the early history of the United States, some towns were named after new found freedoms. In the 1800's, many towns used Greek and Roman places or heroes. Native Indians were a major source of names. The early French, Spanish, and British explorers were also a major influence. Still, many other creative ways were found by our ancestors to describe their new homes. Emotional feelings or significant events were often used to name their new hometowns. Some names originated from coincidence, errors, or by sheer accident. There were even places named by the flip of a coin. Whatever the reason, we are all Americans and live in the greatest hometowns in the world!
Download or read book American Hometown Renewal written by Gary A. Mattson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 889 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the interstates, Main Street America was the small town’s commercial spine and served as the linchpin for community social solidarity. Yet, during the past three decades, a series of economic downturns has left many of the great small cities barely viable. American Hometown Renewal is the first book to combine administrative, budgetary, and economic analysis to examine the economic and fiscal plight currently facing America’s small towns. Featuring a blend of theory, applications, and case studies, it provides a comprehensive, single-source textbook covering the key issues facing small town officials in today’s uncertain economy. Written by a former public manager, university professor, and consultant to numerous small towns in the Heartland, this book demonstrates the ways in which contemporary small towns throughout the nation are facing economic challenges brought about by the financial shocks that began in 2008. Each chapter explores a theme related to small town revival and provides a related tool or technique to enable small town officials to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Encouraging local small town officials to look at the economic orbit of communities in a similar manner as a town’s budget or a family’s personal wealth, examining its specific competitive advantages in terms of relative assets to those of competing communities, this book provides the reader with step-by-step instructions on how to conduct an asset inventory and apply key asset tools to devise a strategy for overcoming the challenges and constraints imposed upon spatially-fixed communities. American Hometown Renewal is an essential primer for students studying city management, economic community development, and city planning, and will be a trusted handbook for city managers, geographers, city planners, urban or rural sociologists, political scientists, and regional microeconomists.
Download or read book Hometown Killer written by Carol J. Rothgeb and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child Killer Springfield, Ohio was an All-American town. A town rocked in 1992 by the discovery of two adolescent girls, brutally raped and murdered. Investigators soon learned that four local misfits had been accomplices. Yet DNA tests proved that the true culprit was still on the loose. Deadly Deceiver Inexplicably, the four men continued to mislead police throughout the years of the investigation, periodically supplying false clues and leads. While a cold-blooded killer remained at large, 31-year-old Belinda Anderson was raped and murdered, and Helen Preston, 38, was raped, beaten, and left for dead. Not until 1996, when a prostitute managed to survive a terrifying ordeal at the hands of her would-be slayer, were police able to catch the man who'd been stalking Springfield's women and children. Family Man He was William K. Sapp, husband, father of two young boys and a baby girl of his own. Behind his mask of seeming normalcy lay a murderous rage toward women. Here is the startling true story of a town besieged-and of the relentless manhunt that tracked Sapp through the years, finally bringing him to justice. Includes 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos
Download or read book Hometown Architect written by Patrick F. Cannon and published by Pomegranate. This book was released on 2006 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oak Park and River Forest are a mecca for Wright scholars and enthusiasts. Nowhere else can one visit so many Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and experience the architect's Prairie-style philosophy so fully. Hometown Architect is a thorough chronicle of that experience. Even if you have not had the good fortune to see these houses firsthand, the textual and photographic tours comprising this book will make you feel as though you have. Hometown Architect presents twenty-seven Wright homes, and Unity Temple, documenting one of the architect's most influential periods of his career. The last chapter surveys eight lost, altered, and possibly Wright homes. More than ninety photographs of the buildings' exteriors and interiors are accompanied by descriptive captions, while introductory text to each chapter details the story behind each commission, addressing Wright's relationships with his clients, the importance of each building in Wright's oeuvre, and the characteristics that make each house unique. The endpapers of this book feature a map locating all the sites discussed. By Patrick F. Cannon, introduction by Paul Kruty, photography by James Caulfield. Published in cooperation with the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust.
Download or read book Hometown written by Peter Davis and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1983-05-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the forces that unite and divide a small Ohio community by looking at local politics, sports, marriage, crime, and social life
Download or read book Little Hometown America written by Cg Fewston and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic saga of growing up in 1980s America. An American realist novel that chronicles a cast of characters living in Texas
