Download or read book Erie Canal Pirates written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by . This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ¿We were forty miles from Albany. Forget it I never shall. When we first set sail to carry the mail On the E-ri-e Canal, On the E-ri-e Canal.¿ What should be a routine trip turns into a swashbuckling adventure as Captain Flynn, his loyal crew, and Old Frank the mule are set upon by pirates led by Bill McGrew, the Terror of Buffalo. But all is not lost. Although the pirates are fierce, Captain Flynn refuses to surrender. The battle begins and all hands join the fray -- even Old Frank, who takes on a one-eyed pirate mule. Will Captain Flynn be able to withstand the relentless onslaught of McGrew¿s crew? Or will the Jolly Roger sail over the Erie Canal? Full-color illustrations. Reinforced binding.
Download or read book The Erie Canal Pirates written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We were forty miles from albany.Forget it I never shall.When we first set sail to carry the mailOn the E-ri-e Canal,On the E-ri-e Canal.So begins the incredible journey of a brave set of sailors, who have a very surprising encounter in that famous New York waterway. When Bill McGrew and his pirate crew pull alongside the boat of Captain Flynn, it's nonstop action for the sailors.A battling pair of mules, high-sea adventure, and a boat trip up Niagra Falls make this spirited ballad a delightful update of a classic song. Andrew Glass's lively, colourful illustrations capture the spirit of this tall tale. Includes an author's note on the inspiration for this yarn.
Download or read book Erie Canal Sings The A Musical History of New York s Grand Waterway written by Bill Hullfish With Dave Ruch and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life working along the banks of the Erie Canal is preserved in the songs of America's rich musical history. Thomas Allen's "Low Bridge, Everybody Down" has achieved iconic status in the American songbook, but its true story has never been told until now. Erie songs such as "The E-ri-e Is a-Risin'" would transform into "The C&O Is a-Risin'" as the song culture spread among a network of other canals, including the Chesapeake and Ohio and the Pennsylvania Main Line. As motors replaced mules and railroads emerged, the canal song tradition continued on Broadway stages and in folk music recordings. Author Bill Hullfish takes readers on a musical journey along New York's historic Erie Canal.
Download or read book A to Zoo written by Rebecca L. Thomas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 3583 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.
Download or read book Wedding of the Waters The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation written by Peter L. Bernstein and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The building of the Erie Canal, like the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the Panama Canal, is one of the greatest and most riveting stories of American ingenuity. Best-selling author Peter Bernstein presents the story of the canal's construction against the larger tableau of America in the first quarter-century of the 1800s. Examining the social, political, and economic ramifications of this mammoth project, Bernstein demonstrates how the canal's creation helped prevent the dismemberment of the American empire and knit the sinews of the American industrial revolution. Featuring a rich cast of characters, including not only political visionaries like Washington, Jefferson, van Buren, and the architect's most powerful champion, Governor DeWitt Clinton, but also a huge platoon of Irish diggers as well as the canal's first travelers, Wedding of the Waters reveals that the twenty-first-century themes of urbanization, economic growth, and globalization can all be traced to the first great macroengineering venture of American history.
Download or read book Curriculum Connections for Tree House Travelers for Grades K 4 written by Jane Berner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If your students love the Magic Tree House books, you will love this book! Cross all curricular areas and engage students in meaningful and stimulating learning experiences. Guide students on thrilling trips through time to Magic Tree House locations where they will discover dinosaurs, knights and castles, Egyptian mummies and pyramids, and pirates and buried treasure. Collaborate with technology specialists, art teachers, and classroom teachers to create units that touch every student. Find cross-curricular lessons and in-depth studies of time and place, designed to promote deep learning in students while motivating them to read both fiction and nonfiction. Designed for elementary students, these literature-based units are easily adaptable to middle school students.
Download or read book Greater Gotham written by Mike Wallace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 1195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume two of the world famous trilogy on the history of New York
Download or read book History of Indiana from Its Exploration to 1922 written by Logan Esarey and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding the Cultural Landscape written by Bret Wallach and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2005-01-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book offers a fresh perspective on how the natural world has been imagined, built on, and transformed by human beings throughout history and around the globe. Coverage ranges from the earliest societies to preindustrial China and India, from the emergence in Europe of the modern world to the contemporary global economy. The focus is on what the places we have created say about us: our belief systems and the ways we make a living. Also explored are the social and environmental consequences of human activities, and how conflicts over the meaning of progress are reflected in today's urban, rural, and suburban landscapes. Written in a highly engaging style, this ideal undergraduate-level human geography text is illustrated with over 25 maps and 70 photographs. Note: Many additional photographs related to the themes addressed in the book are available at the author's website (www.greatmirror.com.)
Download or read book The Story of the American Sailor in Active Service on Merchant Vessel and Man of war written by Elbridge Streeter Brooks and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cruising Guide to New York Waterways and Lake Champlain written by Chris W. Brown and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1998-10-31 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most complete boating guides to the eastern waterways I have ever seen. . . . a top-notch, well-conceived and wonderfully produced book . . . This one's a winner!" Great Lakes Cruiser No serious boater planning a cruise in the area would want to be without Cruising Guide to New York Waterways and Lake Champlain, written in the same format as Pelican's other famous cruising guides. This firsthand account covers everything from more than 1,000 miles of popular waterways (including Lake Champlain, the Hudson River, the Erie Canal, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario) to less-traveled waters.The Thousand Islands are also explored. The author's personal knowledge perfectly complements the data on the NOAA charts that he suggests for each area. Among the many useful topics covered are Current navigational data Shoreside dining and other attractions Water depths Dozens of invaluable maps Anchorage locales photos, and tables Detailed marina evaluations Intriguing historical profiles.
Download or read book Enterprising Waters written by Brad L. Utter and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest public works projects in American history, the Erie Canal inspired a nationwide transportation revolution and directed the course of New York and American history. When completed in 1825, the engineering marvel unlocked the Western interior for trade and settlement, boomtowns sprang up along the canal's path, and New York City grew to be the nation's most powerful center of international trade. Millions of people poured into New York (and some through it) to take advantage of the tremendous opportunities provided by the canal, influencing settlement and the social, political, and commercial landscapes of America. Produced in honor of the bicentennial of the beginning of construction of the canal, Enterprising Waters—a companion catalog to the New York State Museum's exhibition of the same name—includes reproductions of objects and images from the collections of more than thirty-five different institutions and individual lenders. It also contains reproductions of fifty-nine works of art used in the companion exhibition "Art of the Erie Canal." Themes of politics, engineering, commerce, life on the canal, and more are paired with full color images of artifacts, documents, and images to bring this unique American story to life, from its inception to today.
Download or read book Voyage of the Flying Fish written by Mark W Danneels and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2022-01-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greybeard and the adventurers encounter a huge storm that takes them to the North Atlantic. After being frozen in the ice, they reawaken many years later where they consequently encounter the New World! Amazingly, they are not in peril. Instead, they make a time of it, staying in castles and the like. Along the way, they pick up characters such as Man-of-Letters and Quarterbarrel. This leads to reflection.
Download or read book The Golden Corral written by Ed Andreychuk and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfect blend of characterization, action and poetic images, John Ford's Stagecoach (1939) made "A" Westerns a viable product for Hollywood in the sound era. By 1990, the Western had again been on a downswing when Dances with Wolves became both a critical and commercial success. This work examines these two films and twelve others--Red River, High Noon, Shane, The Searchers, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Alamo, The Magnificent Seven, Ride the High Country, How the West Was Won, The Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Unforgiven--that hold unique spots in the genre's history. Full filmographic data are provided for each, along with an essay that blends plot synopsis, historical perspectives and the movie's place in the Western genre.
Download or read book Songquest written by Ivan Walton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ivan H. Walton was a pioneering folklorist who collected the songs and stories of aging sailors living along the shores of the Great Lakes in the 1930s. His collection is unique in the annals of Great Lakes folklore. It began as a search for songs but broadened into a collection of weather signs, shipboard beliefs, greenhorn tales, and stories of the intense rivalry between sailors and the steamboat men who replaced them. Edited by Joe Grimm, Songquest: The Journals of Great Lakes Folklorist Ivan H. Walton is a selection from the daily journals Walton wrote during his travels as a folklore collector. It is clear that Walton, a professor of English at the University of Michigan, both admired the sailors of the Great Lakes for what they had done during their working years and worried about them as they entered the twilight of their lives. Walton went beyond the songs he set out to find and captured the pitch and roll of the Great Lakes alive with white-winged schooners. His writings provide a clear picture of the colorful individuals he met and interviewed—captains, cabin boys, tugmen, chandlers, boardinghouse owners, dredgers, and light keepers. Walton also documented the methods he used and recorded his personal thoughts about his nomadic life and the events going on around him during the 1930s, including the Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s election, and the end of Prohibition. Songquest is a companion volume to Windjammers: Songs of the Great Lakes Sailors (Wayne State University Press, 2002), which contains the lyrics from more than a hundred of Walton’s collected songs, as well as musical scores, sketches, and a compact disc of field recordings.
Download or read book Take a Paddle Finger Lakes written by Rich Freeman and published by Footprint Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering over 370 miles of flat-water creeks or rivers and 35 ponds or lakes, this guide provides a fun way to explore the beautiful Finger Lakes region of new York.
Download or read book Family written by and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
