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Book Camp Yonahnoka  Linville  North Carolina  1950

Download or read book Camp Yonahnoka Linville North Carolina 1950 written by Camp Yonahnoka (Linville, N.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Camp Yonahnoka  Linville  North Carolina  1949

Download or read book Camp Yonahnoka Linville North Carolina 1949 written by Camp Yonahnoka (Linville, N.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Camp Yonahnoka  Linville  North Carolina

Download or read book Camp Yonahnoka Linville North Carolina written by Camp Yonahnoka (Linville, N.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North Carolina Century

Download or read book The North Carolina Century written by Howard E. Covington and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina Century: Tar Heels Who Made a Difference, 1900-2000

Book The Boarding School Directory of the United States

Download or read book The Boarding School Directory of the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Manufactured Wilderness

Download or read book A Manufactured Wilderness written by Abigail Ayres Van Slyck and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since they were first established in the 1880s, children’s summer camps have touched the lives of millions of people. Although the camping experience has a special place in the popular imagination, few scholars have given serious thought to this peculiarly American phenomenon. Why were summer camps created? What concerns and ideals motivated their founders? Whom did they serve? How did they change over time? What factors influenced their design? To answer these and many other questions, Abigail A. Van Slyck trains an informed eye on the most visible and evocative aspect of camp life: its landscape and architecture. She argues that summer camps delivered much more than a simple encounter with the natural world. Instead, she suggests, camps provided a man-made version of wilderness, shaped by middle-class anxieties about gender roles, class tensions, race relations, and modernity and its impact on the lives of children. Following a fascinating history of summer camps and a wide-ranging overview of the factors that led to their creation, Van Slyck examines the intersections of the natural landscape with human-built forms and social activities. In particular, she addresses changing attitudes toward such subjects as children’s health, sanitation, play, relationships between the sexes, Native American culture, and evolving ideas about childhood. Generously illustrated with period photographs, maps, plans, and promotional images of camps throughout North America, A Manufactured Wilderness is the first book to offer a thorough consideration of the summer camp environment.

Book Children s Nature

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leslie Paris
  • Publisher : NYU Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0814767079
  • Pages : 377 pages

Download or read book Children s Nature written by Leslie Paris and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The summer camps have provided many American children's first experience of community beyond their immediate family and neighbourhoods. This title chronicles the history of the American summer camp, from its invention in the late nineteenth century through its rise in the first four decades of the twentieth century

Book Hugh Morton  North Carolina Photographer

Download or read book Hugh Morton North Carolina Photographer written by Hugh M. Morton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers everywhere will enjoy this new collection from one of North Carolina's most beloved photographers showcasing his signature wildlife and nature shots, along with some of his favorite pictures of people and events. Includes 145 color and 17 black & white photographs.

Book Virus of Fear

    Book Details:
  • Author : W. Horace Carter
  • Publisher : Atlantic Publishing Company
  • Release : 1991-10-01
  • ISBN : 9780937866337
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Virus of Fear written by W. Horace Carter and published by Atlantic Publishing Company. This book was released on 1991-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VIRUS OF FEAR by Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist W. Horace Carter; a thrilling three-year autobiography of the young newspaper editor who vividly depicts the infamous resurrection & demise of the Carolinas Ku Klux Klan. The relentless crusade by his weekly paper led to conviction of 300 Klansmen. Many were imprisoned, a first in the U.S. CBS's Charles Kuralt says: "What it takes to defeat a murdering mob, sometimes, is one brave & decent man. I learned that in my youth from Horace Carter; he was the man. This is a fine memoir of a fighting editor." Fighting for the newspaper's survival & his life, the young editor crushed the violent, night-riding, lawless vigilantes. Scores of men & women were brutally whipped, branded & even had ears cut off. These floggings in the wee hours brought fear & even death. Defying death threats, newspaper boycotts & the advice of friends, Carter lambasted the Klan weekly with fiery front page editorials that eventually led to the KKK crumbling & the imprisonment of the Grand Dragon. Carter became the first weekly newspaper editor to win the Pulitzer for Meritorious Public Service. He was named "One of the Ten Most Outstanding Young Men in America" by the U.S. Jaycees.

Book Super Scenic Motorway

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anne Mitchell Whisnant
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2006-10-02
  • ISBN : 0807898422
  • Pages : 461 pages

Download or read book Super Scenic Motorway written by Anne Mitchell Whisnant and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2006-10-02 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most visited site in the National Park system, the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway winds along the ridges of the Appalachian mountains in Virginia and North Carolina. According to most accounts, the Parkway was a New Deal "Godsend for the needy," built without conflict or opposition by landscape architects and planners who traced their vision along a scenic, isolated southern landscape. The historical archives relating to this massive public project, however, tell a different and much more complicated story, which Anne Mitchell Whisnant relates in this revealing history of the beloved roadway.

Book The Scotch Irish

    Book Details:
  • Author : James G. Leyburn
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 1989-08-01
  • ISBN : 9780807842591
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book The Scotch Irish written by James G. Leyburn and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1989-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses their life in Scotland, when the essentials of their character and culture were shaped; their removal to Northern Ireland and the action of their residence in that region upon their outlook on life; and their successive migrations to America, where they settled especially in the back-country of Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, and then after the Revolutionary War were in the van of pioneers to the west.

Book Hiking North Carolina

    Book Details:
  • Author : Randy Johnson
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2007-02-01
  • ISBN : 0762756098
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book Hiking North Carolina written by Randy Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Great Smokies and the Blue Ridge Parkway to the Piedmont and the Outer Banks, this thoroughly updated and revised guide features more than 200 hiking trails in all regions of the state.

Book North Carolina is My Home

Download or read book North Carolina is My Home written by Charles Kuralt and published by Globe Pequot Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a celebration of North Carolina--the people, scenery, food, history, and much more. Color and black-and-white photographs.

Book Highland Heritage

Download or read book Highland Heritage written by Celeste Ray and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland Gaelic identity that did not come to characterize that nation until long after the ancestors of many Scottish Americans had left Scotland. Ray explores how Highland Scottish themes and lore merge with southern regional myths and identities to produce a unique style of commemoration and a complex sense of identity for Scottish Americans in the South. Blending the objectivity of the anthropologist with respect for the people she studies, she asks how and why we use memories of our ancestral pasts to provide a sense of identity and community in the present. In so doing, she offers an original and insightful examination of what it means to be Scottish in America.

Book Wrightsville Beach

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ray McAllister
  • Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
  • Release : 2017-09-27
  • ISBN : 9780998788111
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Wrightsville Beach written by Ray McAllister and published by John F. Blair, Publisher. This book was released on 2017-09-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after crossing the drawbridge from the mainland, you'll reach a fork in the road and face your first decision at Wrightsville Beach. Bearing left will take you to the famous Johnnie Mercer's Fishing Pier and near the site where a giant sperm whale named Trouble once washed ashore and refused to leave. Bearing right will take you to the classic downtown and points south, including the Coast Guard station and the site of the late, great Lumina Pavilion.Either way, you can't go wrong.Either way, you'll find a vibrant mixture of old and new.Either way, amid landscape-altering attacks by both nature and developers, you'll find the constancy of waves against sand.Wrightsville Beach: The Luminous Island is Ray McAllister's homage to a special place, a book that captures not only Wrightsville's history but also its heart. Along the way, he shares stories of fires and hurricanes, Captain Kidd and David Brinkley, beach trolleys and Big Bands.Unlike most of the North Carolina coast, Wrightsville had a sizable population base, thanks to nearby Wilmington. Development didn't begin early here, but once it started, it came hard and fast. By the early 20th century, Wrightsville was beckoning family vacationers to its simple beach cottages and day-trippers to its dance floors, cinemas, and sundry amusements.Through all the changes, Wrightsville has never forgotten the hospitality that made it such a destination in the first place. Just ask the airplane full of Pennsylvanians who fled here to escape one of America's first man-made disasters. Or the thousands who continue to come for happier reasons today.

Book Armed with Cameras

Download or read book Armed with Cameras written by Peter Maslowski and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on years of interviews with surviving combat cameramen, a distinguished military historian explores the historic importance of cameramen on the battlefield, revealing the unparalleled excitement of the military photographers' experiences and the richness of their legacy. Photos.

Book Hillbilly

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Harkins
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 0195189507
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Hillbilly written by Anthony Harkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that the hillbilly - in his various guises - has been viewed by mainstream Americans simultaneously as a violent degenerate who threatens the modern order and as a keeper of traditional values and thus symbolic of a nostalgic past free of the problems of contemporary life.