Download or read book Dead in Fairmount Park written by Maria T. Watson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wolves of Fairmount Park written by Dennis Tafoya and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Wolves of Fairmount Park, Dennis Tafoya's lyrical, intense, sometimes tragic and sometimes hopeful second novel, the details of a drive-by shooting of two teenagers in a rough Philadelphia neighborhood are filled in from four perspectives: Brendan Donovan, a cop and the father of the boy shot and left comatose; George Parkman Sr., another father, this one of the boy who was killed; Danny Martinez, a cop whose job it is to investigate the killing; and Orlando Donovan, the junkie uncle of the cop's kid, who happens to live nearby. No one knows what the two boys were doing in front of a dope house on Roxborough Avenue in the middle of the night, what business they might have had with gangs like Green Lane or the Tres Nortes. Even though they had a thousand dollars with them, they were good boys. Everyone says, "They were good boys." Through the fast-paced interweaving of these four distinct voices, Dennis Tafoya, author of the acclaimed Dope Thief, tells the moving story of two kids in the wrong place at the wrong time, and the lengths that the people around them will go to find the truth.
Download or read book Fairmount Park written by Charles Keyser and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book The Fairmount Park Motor Races 1908 1911 written by Michael J. Seneca and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four years, early in the last century, the Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelphia's West Fairmount Park. They drew half a million spectators the first year, but surprisingly they have been overlooked as part of automobile racing history and as part of the history of Philadelphia. In contrast to other racing events, such as the Vanderbilt Cup, there were never any serious injuries and not a single death, but after four years of spectacular racing, the event was banned, with safety concerns cited. Opening with a brief look at automobile racing prior to 1908, the book covers the events leading up to the first race. It discusses the proposal to have a race in Fairmount Park and the reasons why Philadelphia, and the park in particular, was such an unlikely place. Both the on-track action of the races and the off-track events that affected them are described. Dr. J. William White's successful crusade, following the 1911 outing, to stop the races is examined, as are attempts to revive the race in the following six years, including Philadelphia's attempt to compete with Indianapolis by constructing a two-mile oval speedway, and the city's eventual exit from automobile racing.
Download or read book Fairmount Park and the International Exhibition at Philadelphia written by Charles S. Keyser and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Download or read book The Story of Philadelphia written by Lillian Ione Rhoades and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia is especially rich in historic associations. In its halls were enunciated those principles of human rights that gave birth to free institutions. Here were assembled those patriotic men whose wise words and brave deeds laid the foundations and gave shape to the temple of American liberty. Here was written the Declaration of Independence, the most -distinguished state paper ever drafted by human pen. Here stands Independence Hall, in which that Declaration was debated, adopted, and signed. Here, in a little house, still standing, was designed the American flag, that now floats over the grandest nation of all time. Here, in one of our streets, was sent up the silken kite that proved the identity of the electric spark and the lightning's flash. Here are buildings hallowed by the presence of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin.The object of " The Story of Philadelphia" is to present, in condensed form, some of the most interesting events in the history of the city. The story is one of patriotic interest, and no one can follow it without feeling a deeper pride in the city and its institutions.
Download or read book Annual Report written by Philadelphia (Pa.) Bureau of Water and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fordwell Graham Or Lost and Won by the Hand of the Dead written by W. June Arlington and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book And the Dead Call the Dying written by Bernard Kreizman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ellen Ryder, a secretary, employed by the City of Philadelphia, was brutally murdered outside her home. Detectives Daniel Kane and Karl Becker are assigned the case. There are no witnesses. This begins the most horrific case the two detectives and the City of Philadelphia have ever seen. Detective Daniel Kane meets Susan Shaffer, a student working towards her Ph.D., who helps Daniel and awakens buried feelings of longing and love. A second murder is committed with the same M.O. Detectives Kane and Becker begin to share their worst fear --- a cold-blooded serial killer.
Download or read book The City of First written by George Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Unfinished Exhibition written by Susanna Gold and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Centennial decade was an era of ambivalence, the United States still unresolved about the incomprehensible damage it had wrought over four years of Civil War, and why. Philadelphia’s 1876 Centennial Exhibition -- a spectacular international event celebrating one hundred years of American strength, unity, and freedom -- took place in the immediate wake of this trauma of war and the failures of Reconstruction as a means to restore power and patriotism in the nation’s struggle to rebuild itself. The Unfinished Exhibition, the first comprehensive examination of American art at the Centennial, explains the critical role of visual culture in negotiating memories of the nation’s past that conflicted with the optimism that Exhibition officials promoted. Supporting novel iconographical interpretations with myriad primary source material, author Susanna W. Gold demonstrates how the art galleries and the audiences who visited them addressed the lingering traumas of battle, the uneasy re-unification of North and South, and the persisting racial tensions in the post-Emancipation era. This careful consideration of the visual record exposes the complexities of the war’s impact on Americans and clarifies how the Centennial art exhibition affected a nation still finding its direction at a critical moment in its history.
Download or read book Historical Catalogue with Biographical Sketches of Deceased Members 1749 1907 written by St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pennsylvania State Reports written by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Containing cases decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania." (varies)
Download or read book Pennsylvania State Reports Containing Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania written by Pennsylvania. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lives of Eminent Philadelphians Now Deceased written by Henry Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 1170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
