Download or read book Galax Remembered written by John J. Nunn and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written history of Galax VA collected from old Newspapers and Scrapbooks
Download or read book Rectors Remembered The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 7 written by Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 7 of 8, pages 4043 to 4739. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.
Download or read book Rectors Remembered The Descendants of John Jacob Rector Volume 6 written by Laura Wayland-Smith Hatch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 6 of 8, 3337 to 4042. A genealogical compilation of the descendants of John Jacob Rector and his wife, Anna Elizabeth Fischbach. Married in 1711 in Trupbach, Germany, the couple immigrated to the Germanna Colony in Virginia in 1714. Eight volumes document the lives of over 45,000 individuals.
Download or read book Hillsville Remembered written by Travis A. Rountree and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 14, 1912, Hillsville, Virginia, native Floyd Allen (1856–1913) was convicted of three criminal charges: assault, maiming, and the rescue of prisoners in custody. What had begun as a scuffle between Allen's nephews over a young woman ended with him being charged as the guilty party after he allegedly hit a deputy in the head with a pistol. When the jury returned with the verdict, Allen stood up and announced, "Gentleman, I ain't a-goin." A gunfight ensued in the crowded courtroom that killed five people and wounded seven others. The state of Virginia put Floyd and Claude Allen to death by electrocution the following spring. More than a century later, the event continues to impact the citizens and communities of the area as local newspapers recirculate the sordid story and give credence to annual public reenactments that continue to negatively impact the national perception of the region. In this first book-length scholarly review of the Hillsville shoot-out, author Travis A. Rountree examines various media written about and inspired by the event and explains how the incident reinforced the nation's conception of Appalachia through depictions of this sensational moment in history. In all, this book provides an extensive analysis of this historic conflict and reveals a new understanding of the shaping of memories and stories from the event.
Download or read book They Walked These Streets written by Judith Nunn Alley and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Lucinda Nunn Alley, a Galax historian and a former resident, has written a follow up to her book "First Families of Galax" that was published several years ago. The new book is a salute to members of the "Greatest Generation" with Galax roots and contains over 200 sketches of leading citizens during the 1940-1960 time period of Galax history. The sketches provide family history, school activities, military experiences, and civic activities of the subjects as well as who were their childhood friends, wedding descriptions, and obituaries when possible. As a genealogist, she has used vital records, newspaper accounts, genealogy records and information shared by family members of some of those featured in the book as part of her research. Judy may be remembered also as being co-author of the Arcadia book on Galax and Galax Remembered with her brother, the late John J. Nunn. When asked what inspired her to write this book, Judy replied that she had grown up in the best of times, in the best of towns and wanted people to know about the leaders of Galax during her childhood. Also involved is her deep love of history, especially WWII; not the battles, but the people who lived during those years.-- from publisher's description.
Download or read book Jim Scancarelli written by Lewis M. Stern and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s. A founding member of the Kilocycle Kowboys, one of Charlotte's longest-lived bluegrass bands, he played banjo with the Mole Hill Highlanders, and in the 1980s formed Sanitary Cafe with fiddler Tommy Malboeuf. Through the 1970s, his annual recordings at the Union Grove Fiddlers Convention captured superlative music and performer interviews. Scancarelli also had a successful career as a freelance magazine artist and collaborated on the syndicated comic strips "Mutt and Jeff" and "Gasoline Alley," eventually taking over authorship of the latter in 1986. This biography traces his creative trajectory in music, art, radio and television, and the cartooning industry.
Download or read book Galax written by John Nunn and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1903, the Grayson Real Estate Company was formed, land was purchased, and the community of Galax became a reality. The advantage of having the Norfolk and Western Railroad passing through town gave the young southern community the opportunity to grow and expand during the 20th century. Located on a high valley-like plateau in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains, its downtown district is listed on the Virginia Landmarks Register and the National Register of Historic Places. The town is surrounded by rolling swells of grassy hills and well-kept farms, while the Chestnut Creek meanders slowly through the heart of the town with the New River and the Blue Ridge Parkway nearby. A collection of old, treasured photographs provide a glimpse of the town's first 50 years and of its citizens, their lives, homes, stores, and activities.
Download or read book The Spacetastic Adventures of Mr Space and Captain Galaxy written by T.L. Charles and published by Annulus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As adventurers of the grand cosmos, Mr. Jason Space and Captain Helena Galaxy seek to discover new worlds and new adventures and to have fun while doing it. They will never do paid mercenary work, no matter how good the offer, for they are explorers and not mercenaries. They will complete every mission they undertake, no matter how much trouble it gets them into. And they will never give up, regardless of whatever menacing aliens or dangerous obstacles they run into. The complete season one collection includes: Episode One: Lights, Camera, Impact! Episode Two: Rocky Episode Three: Mother Episode Four: Never Work with Old Bosses Episode Five: The Phantom of the Jungle PLUS all five Spacetastic Interviews! KEYWORDS: science fiction action adventure series, science fiction action adventure humor, science fiction serial, science fiction humorous, science fiction humor serial, science fiction comedy, science fiction comedy adventure, science fiction collection, humorous science fiction short stories
Download or read book Country Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Bloodragon Chronicles Volume One Living Steel written by Paris Alexander Holmes and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young hero sets off on a journey of revenge to avenge the only family he has ever known; an adopted group of patriarchal, militant giants. Revenge is thrust aside when the hero's quest turns into a journey of self-discovery; unlocking his mysterious mental powers, and leading him into a strange life of adventure, with even stranger adventuring partners. A mysterious priestess who can heal others, but spends the mornings helpless in the sun, absorbing light like a plant; a muscular Amazo
Download or read book Episode One Lights Camera Impact science fiction adventure comedy serial free science fiction written by T.L. Charles and published by Annulus Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-02 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As adventurers of the grand cosmos, Mr. Jason Space and Captain Helena Galaxy seek to discover new worlds and new adventures and to have fun while doing it. They will never do paid mercenary work, no matter how good the offer, for they are explorers and not mercenaries. They will complete every mission they undertake, no matter how much trouble it gets them into. And they will never give up, regardless of whatever menacing aliens or dangerous obstacles they run into. When Galaxy travels to the uninhabited world of Magna 5, she goes there only to find rare rocks she and Space can sell to geologists for money to help fuel their travels across the universe. But when Galaxy finds herself alone up against an old-fashioned assassin who is trying to kill a famed holofilm director, and with a meteor on its way to devastate the planet's surface, Galaxy must race against time to stop the assassin and get off Magna 5 before it is too late. KEYWORDS: science fiction action adventure series, science fiction action adventure humor, science fiction serial, science fiction humorous, science fiction humor serial, science fiction comedy, science fiction comedy adventure
Download or read book New Art of Willard Gayheart written by Willard Gayheart and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a portfolio of 87 drawings by the Appalachian pencil artist Willard Gayheart dating from the early 1970s to the present. The book features information about each drawing taken from interviews with the artist and the owners of the art. Additionally, the book contains information about the artist's life and music and where his art can be found in the region.
Download or read book Dwight Diller written by Lewis M. Stern and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwight Hamilton Diller is a musician from West Virginia devoted to traditional Appalachian fiddle and banjo music, and a seminary-trained minister steeped in local Christian traditions. For the past 40 years, he has worked to preserve archaic fiddle and banjo tunes, teaching his percussive, primitively rhythmic style to small groups in marathon banjo workshops. This book tells of Diller's life and music, his personal challenges and his decades of teaching an elusive musical form.
Download or read book The Stonemans written by Ivan M. Tribe and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stonemans is an eye-opening slice of Americana---a trip through nearly twenty years of country music history following a single family from their native Blue Ridge Mountains to the slums of Washington, D.C., and the glitter of Nashville. As early as 1924 Ernest V. "Pop" Stoneman realized the potential of what is now known as country music, and he tried to carve a career from it. Successful as a recording artist from 1925 through 1929, Stoneman foundered during the Great Depression. He, his wife, and their nine children went to Washington in 1932, struggling through a decade of hardship and working to revive the musical career Pop still believed in. The Stoneman Family won the Country Music Association's Vocal Group of the Year Award in 1967. After Pop's death a year later, some of the children scattered to pursue their own careers. Ivan Tribe relies on extensive interviews with the Stonemans and their friends in this chronicle of a family whose members have clung to their musical heritage through good times and bad.
Download or read book Vanguard Storming Heaven written by David Mack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final novel in the acclaimed Vanguard saga, based on Star Trek: The Original Series! Secret operations, sealed orders, high-risk military special operations—such dangerous missions have been at the core of the Star Trek Vanguard series since its inception. Four great nations—the Federation, the Klingon Empire, the Tholian Assembly, and the Romulan Star Empire—have all taken tremendous risks in their race to learn and control the technologies of the ancient interstellar hegemons known as the Shedai. Now get ready for the mystery of the Taurus Reach to be revealed….
Download or read book Dan Levenson written by Lewis M. Stern and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of Dan Levenson, an old-time banjo and fiddle player from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Between 1987 and 1991, Dan worked for Goose Acres Folk Music Center in Cleveland, Ohio, where he dove deeply into old-time music. In the late 1980s, he formed the Boiled Buzzards; they recorded four albums between 1989 and 1994 and were a consistently active presence at old-time music festivals. He also played with Bob Frank during that time as one-half of the Hotfoot Duo. In 1995, he teamed up with Kim Murley and recorded New Frontier: Instrumentals from China and America. Levenson undertook his first cross-country trip as a solo performer in 1996. His traveling workshop "Meet the Banjo" ran with the sponsorship of Deering Banjos from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. Dan recorded three projects in the first five years of the 2000s and began editing the quarterly "Old Time Way" section for Banjo Newsletter in 2005. He continues performing old-time music, teaching fiddle and banjo, writing instructional and repertoire books featuring banjo and fiddle tunes for Mel Bay, and making plans for more old-time music projects.
