Download or read book Idle Hour Romp written by Stephen C Carlisle and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young enough to be a son of the “Greatest Generation” yet too old to be a “Baby Boomer”, the boy grew up in the 1940s and '50s in a small rural town on Long Island. In a four-volume series he presents his memoirs as little time capsules, set in the context of their happening, unembellished, for the most part, by later events or other accounts. In this volume, the first in the series, the boy describes the unique playground of his youth, a world dominated by woods and waterways and the remnants of Vanderbilt opulence. In a sequel, “Idle Hour Retrospect - A Native Son's Study of 20th Century Oakdale”, the adult adds historical context, gained from later research, to the scenes of “Idle Hour Romp”.

Download or read book Idle Hour Retrospect written by Stephen C. Carlisle and published by Stephen C. Carlisle. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his memoir "Idle Hour Romp - Boyhood Adventures in Mid-20th Century Oakdale", the author described the unique playground of his youth, a world dominated by woods and waterways and the remnants of Vanderbilt opulence, as he saw it at the time when he was unaware of its rich history. In this sequel to that memoir he presents some of the historical background behind this playground, things learned long after his childhood ... How Vanderbilt carved his big estate out of Long Island's south shore wilderness, building the mansion and the Farm and the many out buildings and digging miles of canals ... How the millionaire's estate became a middle class residential community ... How the Farm became the Artist Colony ... How the Gilded Age estates of Vanderbilt's neighbors evolved. It is selective local history presented from an intimate perspective, seasoned with some personal musings.

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Download or read book Catalogue of the Retrospective Loan Exhibition of European Tapestries written by San Francisco Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book More Tales for Idle Hours written by John Harris and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Download or read book Joseph Wharton written by Willard Ross Yates and published by Lehigh University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first book-length biography of Joseph Wharton traces his family background, his business enterprises, and his contribution to the nineteenth-century age of industrial enterprise.

Download or read book The Carriage Journal written by Thomas Ryder and published by Carriage Assoc. of America. This book was released on 1988-04-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The View from the Box . . . . . . The Carriage Collection of Edward Brooke . The Herdic Coach . . . . . . . . . The Stable at "Set Fair" . Memories, Mostly Horsy The Scheidel Carriage Collection . Wheel Making Made Easy . Carriage for Hire : . The Eighteenth Century Carriages of Colonial Williamsburg . . . . . . . . Let's Not be Stubborn About Those Mules . The Vanderbilt Stables at "Idle Hour" . Questions & Answers . Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . · · The Carriage Trade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Success of the Edinburgh-Manchester Coach Run . Sandpoint. . . . . . : . . . · An Analysis of the Mechanics of Carriage Brakes

Download or read book The Order of the Furies written by Niklas Natt och Dag and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding and eerie finale to the #1 internationally bestselling “cerebral, immersive” (The Washington Post) historical trilogy follows two unlikely allies as they struggle to end the reign of a powerful cabal of depraved hedonists in 18th-century Stockholm. For more than a year, Emil Winge has dedicated himself to capturing the diabolical Tycho Ceton, with the invaluable assistance of one-armed army veteran and watchman Jean Michael Cardell. Their mission is made more difficult by the ever-increasing paranoia gripping Sweden’s royal family, who fear that a bloody revolution is brewing. A letter with the names of the revolutionary conspirators is said to be in the possession of Anna Stina Knapp, a good friend to Cardell. Now, Anna is missing and Cardell is determined to find her before the secret police take her into custody. While Winge and Cardell fight for justice and for life, they find themselves caught between powerful enemies—those who will do anything to maintain the status quo, and those who will only be satisfied with its total destruction. Writing with “thrilling, unnerving, clever, and beautiful” (Fredrik Backman) vigor and style, Niklas Natt och Dag brilliantly concludes his immersion into the dark and turbulent waters of 18th-century Stockholm.

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Download or read book The Violet Hour written by Katherine Hill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pitch-perfect, emotionally riveting novel about the fracturing of a marriage and a family: “A gripping debut” (People) from an award-winning young writer with superb storytelling instincts. Life hasn’t always been perfect for Abe and Cassandra Green, but an afternoon on the San Francisco Bay might be as good as it gets. Abe is a rheumatologist, piloting his coveted new boat. Cassandra is a sculptor, finally gaining modest attention for her art. Their beautiful daughter Elizabeth is heading to Harvard in the fall. Somehow, they’ve made things work. But then, tensions overflow, and they plunge into a terrible fight. In a fit of fury, Abe throws himself off the boat. “A bittersweet tale of breakup and forgiveness” (O, The Oprah Magazine), The Violet Hour follows a modern family through past and present. As Cassandra, Abe, and Elizabeth navigate the passage of time—the expectations of youth, the concessions of middle age, the headiness of desire, the bitterness of loss—they must come to terms with the fragility of their intimacy, the strange legacies they inherit from their parents, and the kind of people they want to be. Exquisitely written, The Violet Hour is “a rewarding family saga reminiscent of Anne Tyler’s novels...Hill’s story unfurls from the kind of sensational marital spat that makes you feel better about your own imperfect union…wonderfully witty and assured” (The Washington Post Book World).

Download or read book Henry James and the Art of Impressions written by John Scholar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James criticized the impressionism movement, yet time and again used the word 'impressio' to represent his characters's consciousness, as well as the work of the literary artist. This book explores this anomaly, placing James's work within the wider cultural history of impressionism.