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Book The Finger Lakes of New York

Download or read book The Finger Lakes of New York written by and published by North Country Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book It Started with a Steamboat

Download or read book It Started with a Steamboat written by Steven Harvey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In little over a hundred years America went from a country that lacked a national road system to become a world leader in all forms of fast transportation. It was from 1807 to 1909 that the foundations of cheap fast travel forever changed us as a people and a nation. It all started with a steamboat trip up the Hudson which brought about a mechanical transportation revolution that came ashore and finally took to the air. Our story is about transportation starting with the steamboat, the development of New York's Finger Lakes, and how this helped bring about the modern business world we take for granted. It took only a century for the magical formula of fast transportation speeding up local development and business growth to transform our nation and the world we live in. The reader should always keep in mind the endless cycle of speed, development and business that keeps the ball rolling as time and distance continue to shrink in this ever changing world. Speed changed our lives to the point that we needed to escape it as the Excursionist Age of lakeside resorts, fine wines and dance halls came to life for the working weary and high rollers of the land. New York's Finger Lakes were the crown jewels of this age, having fine wineries and some of the best railroads and steamboats in the land. Out of all of this energy emerged the "Wizard of Hammondsport," Glenn H. Curtiss! He would go on to become the fastest man on earth and in the air! Because of these events we no longer think in terms of distance, but instead in the time it takes to get there. We now think in sound bits, eat on the run, as our children live fast pace lives. Here is the story of how this came to be.

Book From Where We Stand

Download or read book From Where We Stand written by Deborah Tall and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a particular landscape move us? What is it that attaches us to a particular place? Tall’s From Where We Stand is an eloquent exploration of the connections we have with places—and the loss to us if there are no such connections. A typically rootless child of several American suburbs, Tall set out to make a true home for herself in the landscape that circumstance had brought her—the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. In a mosaic of personal anecdotes, historical sketches, and lyrical meditations, she interweaves her own story with the story of this place and its people—from the Seneca Nation of the Iroquois, to European settlers, to the many utopians who sensed and were inspired by a spiritual resonance here. This edition includes an introduction by William Kittredge and a foreword by Stephen Kuusisto, both highlighting the book’s significance and Tall’s exquisite skill in tracing the relationship between homelands and storytelling.

Book Geneva on Seneca Lake

Download or read book Geneva on Seneca Lake written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lake Gun

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Fenimore Cooper
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-11-21
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 27 pages

Download or read book The Lake Gun written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Lake Gun" by James Fenimore Cooper. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book     Summer Excursion Routes

Download or read book Summer Excursion Routes written by Pennsylvania Railroad and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Summer Excursion Routes

Download or read book Summer Excursion Routes written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book To Dress and Keep the Earth

Download or read book To Dress and Keep the Earth written by Paul Grebinger and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Summer excursion routes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pennsylvania railroad co
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1884
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Summer excursion routes written by Pennsylvania railroad co and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Make a Way Somehow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathryn Grover
  • Publisher : Syracuse University Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780815626268
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Make a Way Somehow written by Kathryn Grover and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking book, Kathryn Grover reconstructs from their own writings the lives of African Americans in Geneva, New York, virtually from its beginning in the 1790s, to the time of the community's first civil rights march in 1965. She weaves together demographic evidence and narratives by black Americans to recount their lives within a white-controlled society. Make a Way Somehow, which reflects the tenor of the gospel song whence it came, is a complete and meaningful history of black Genevans, with a moving focus on the individual experience. The author traces five principal migrations of African Americans to northern cities: the forced migration of slaves from the East and South before 1820; the antebellum fugitive slave farm-to-town movement; the postwar migration of emancipated people; the so-called Great Migration between the two World Wars; and the last movement that began around 1938 and ended in 1960, which was precipitated by the need for workers in large-scale commercial agriculture and the war-mobilization effort. Grover pieces together the lives of generations of African Americans in Geneva and delineates the local system of race relations from the city's social and economic standpoint. Black Genevans were kept at the fringes of society and worked in jobs that were temporary and scarce. While antislavery and suffrage work was common, it represented but a small portion of reform in towns whose broader sentiments opposed racial equality. In a work that spans more than a hundred years, the author establishes a context for understanding both the persistence of a small group of blacks and the transience of a great many others.

Book W Is for Waterfall

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aileen Easterbrook
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-05-15
  • ISBN : 9781732161429
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book W Is for Waterfall written by Aileen Easterbrook and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful tour of the Finger Lakes Region of New York State through captivating illustration and descriptive verse. Each page shares cultural and historical facts of interest appealing to adults and older children while detailed and colorful illustrations along with alphabetical verse appeal to younger children. Letter sounds, alliteration and rhyme help build phonemic awareness and letter sound recognition. Content area vocabulary related to curriculum is present. Reference materials included: Index, map and more. W is for Waterfall takes readers of all ages on a journey through this important area of New York State. Subjects include agriculture, aviation, art, birds, wetlands, pollination, Erie Canal, movie history, women's history, trout, fishing, farms. Recommended for interested adults and K-4th grade.

Book The Code of Handsome Lake  the Seneca Prophet

Download or read book The Code of Handsome Lake the Seneca Prophet written by Handsome Lake and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book It Started with a Steamboat

Download or read book It Started with a Steamboat written by Steven Harvey and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book, "When Substance Abuse Attacks Your Home," is written with great pain and many regrets. It shares more than facts and realities about drug addiction. The book also conveys the hard realities that accompany chemical dependency. These details are not appealing, but never the less, brutally honest. The book is filled with up-to-date research on this critical subject. Invaluable information and resources are made easy to retrieve, and practical to use. Among the many special features of this book, is the clear explanation of why it is so difficult for a drug addict to break away from his/her bondage. The relational aspect of substance abuse is uniquely put side by side the union between a husband and wife, "until death do us part" This book offers the reader facts easy to comprehend and numerous experimental insights. Since this book is written from a family's viewpoint into substance abuse, the reader cannot help~ but feel the pain and see the tears a family lives through when one of their loved ones is chemical dependent. While the main focus is on the drug addict, another touching and helpful feature, is the unmasking of the torments of the addict's parents and siblings.

Book Motor Travel

Download or read book Motor Travel written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario

Download or read book Shipwrecks of Lake Ontario written by Jim Kennard and published by . This book was released on 2019-05 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the stories of a number of sunken vessels on the United States territory in Lake Ontario, among them the steamer Ellsworth, the St. Peter, the Homer Warren, the schooner Etta Belle, the Coast Guard cable boat CG-56022, the schooner William Elgin, the Orcadian, the steamer Samuel F. Hodge, the W.Y. Emery, the British warship Ontario, the schooner C. Reeve, the Queen of the Lakes, the schooner Atlas, the Ocean Wave, the steamer Roberval, the U.S. Air Force C-45, the schooner Three Brothers, the steamship Nisbet Grammer, the steamship Bay State, the schooner Royal Albert, the sloop Washington, and the schooner Hartford. Appendices look at three particular locations: Ford Shoals, Mexico Bay, and the lake near Oswego.

Book The Automobile Blue Book

Download or read book The Automobile Blue Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Health and Pleasure on  America s Greatest Railroad

Download or read book Health and Pleasure on America s Greatest Railroad written by New York Central and Hudson River Railroad Company and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: