Download or read book The Last of the Hill Farms written by Richard Brown and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1968 the photographer Richard Brown fulfilled a romantic childhood dream when he moved to the Northeast Kingdom, a remote corner of Vermont just barely entering the twentieth century. There he encountered a way of life that was fast disappearing, a land of sheep, cattle, work horses, wood-burning stoves, and small family-run farms far removed from the industrial Northeast. Determined to record it before it disappeared, he saw a pastoral vision where, "for the briefest interval, a window opened and the spirit of Vermont's past--granite hills cleared and formed, hard lives lived and lost, struggle and endurance, a harsh land made starkly beautiful by nature and man--was made palpable." He saw the land and also a people whose "endless hours of backbreaking, monotonous work were spent with a quiet ferocity" and who believed their "age-old labors were a struggle waged against time itself - labors that might just hold modernity at bay." And Brown did record it, with an 8 x 10″ large plate view camera. Not only the hauntingly beautiful landscape but also the people who stayed and worked the stubborn hills and "did so with great but fierce attachment." This is a great ode to an America that has passed before our eyes almost without comment or notice. It is a valiant, indeed a brilliant, effort to make the past tangible, to bring it back to life.
Download or read book City on a Hilltop written by Sara Yael Hirschhorn and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1967, more than 60,000 Jewish-Americans have settled in the territories captured by the State of Israel during the Six Day War. Comprising 15 percent of the settler population today, these immigrants have established major communities, transformed domestic politics and international relations, and committed shocking acts of terrorism. They demand attention in both Israel and the United States, but little is known about who they are and why they chose to leave America to live at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In this deeply researched, engaging work, Sara Yael Hirschhorn unsettles stereotypes, showing that the 1960s generation who moved to the occupied territories were not messianic zealots or right-wing extremists but idealists engaged in liberal causes. They did not abandon their progressive heritage when they crossed the Green Line. Rather, they saw a historic opportunity to create new communities to serve as a beacon—a “city on a hilltop”—to Jews across the globe. This pioneering vision was realized in their ventures at Yamit in the Sinai and Efrat and Tekoa in the West Bank. Later, the movement mobilized the rhetoric of civil rights to rebrand itself, especially in the wake of the 1994 Hebron massacre perpetrated by Baruch Goldstein, one of their own. On the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 war, Hirschhorn illuminates the changing face of the settlements and the clash between liberal values and political realities at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Download or read book One Hundred Choice Selections written by Charles Chalmers Shoemaker and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose written by Phineas Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Picturesque America written by William Cullen Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delineation by pen and pencilof the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests water-falls, shores, caqons, walleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country.
Download or read book The Speaker s Garland and Literary Bouquet written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Speaker s Garland and Literary Bouquet Combining 100 Choice Selections written by Phineas Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Speaker s Garland and Literary Bouquet written by Phineas Garrett and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Echoes written by Robert Creeley and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new collection of poems, Robert Creeley continues to explore the limits and resonances, public and personal, of age. Indeed, the title itself, Echoes, recurs throughout his poetry of the last two decades. Thus "Sonnets" speaks out against the waste of human violence and dogmatism ("Come round again the banal/belligerence almost a/flatulent echo of times"), while the book's closing sequence, "Roman Sketchbook", contemplates with wit and affection the measure of one's literal body in echoing time and place. Creeley as ever articulates the givens of life, its daily fact and possibility, with careful, concise invention. What wind's echo, uplifted spirit? Archaic feelings flood the body. Ah! accomplished.
Download or read book The SAE Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 30-54 (1932-46) issued in 2 separately paged sections: General editorial section and a Transactions section. Beginning in 1947, the Transactions section is continued as SAE quarterly transactions.
Download or read book One Hundred Choice Selections in Poetry and Prose written by Nathaniel Kirk Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Speaker s Garland and Literary Bouquet Combining 100 Choice Selections Nos 1 2 3 and 4 written by Phineas Garrett and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-08 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Download or read book Picturesque America Volume 1 Part 1 written by William Bryant and published by Aegitas. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturesque America was a two-volume set of books describing and illustrating the scenery of America, which grew out of an earlier series in Appleton and 's Journal. It was published by D. Appleton and Company of New York in 1872 and 1874 and edited by the romantic poet and journalist William Cullen Bryant and (1794-1878 and ), who also edited the New York Evening Post. The layout and concept was similar to that of Picturesque Europe. The work and 's essays, together with its nine hundred wood engravings and fifty steel engravings, are considered to have had a profound influence on the growth of tourism and the historic preservation movement in the United States.
Download or read book Speaker s Garland and Literary Bouquet written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
