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Book Idylwild Park  The Forgotten Paradise 1895 1919  in colour

Download or read book Idylwild Park The Forgotten Paradise 1895 1919 in colour written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2023-11-03 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Idylwild Park was located between Preston and Hespeler, Ontario along the Galt, Preston, Hespeler Electric Railway line. It has been over a century since it was in operation, and there is no trace of its existence now. Yet, people are intrigued to learn more about it. This booklet, for the first time, collects all the information on Idylwild Park including photos, articles, postcards, interviews and maps. The rare 1896 railway map confirms the location of the park. The edition of this booklet is in colour.

Book Tragedy in Galt  The May 2nd 1956  CPR Rail Crash

Download or read book Tragedy in Galt The May 2nd 1956 CPR Rail Crash written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on the tragic CPR Rail Crash May 2nd, 1956, in Galt, Ontario (now Cambridge). William Palmer and Tommy Watson lost their lives in the crash. Interviews with 4 members of the train crews that were there that day. Sixty-four years later people are still haunted by the images of that fateful day. Includes the full Inquest, photos and interviews with Ken Shillington, William Hopkins, Ron Westworth and George Nutkins.

Book Beyond Vision

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pavel Florensky
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2006-08-15
  • ISBN : 1861896395
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Beyond Vision written by Pavel Florensky and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-08-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Vision is the first English-language collection of essays on art by Pavel Florensky (1882–1937), Russian philosopher, priest, linguist, scientist, mathematician – and art historian. In addition to seven essays by Florensky, the book includes a biographical introduction and an examination of Florensky’s contribution as an art historian by Nicoletta Misler. Beyond Vision reveals Florensky’s fundamental attitudes to the vital questions of construction, composition, chronology, function and destination in the fields of painting, sculpture and design. His reputation as a theologian and philosopher is already established in the English-speaking world, but this first collection in English of his art essays (translated by Wendy Salmond) will be a revelation to those in the field. Pavel Florensky was a true polymath: trained in mathematics and philosophy at Moscow University, he rejected a scholarship in advanced mathematics in order to study theology at the Moscow Theological Academy. He was also an expert linguist, scientist and art historian. A victim of the Soviet government’s animosity towards religion, he was condemned to a Siberian labor camp in 1933 where he continued his work under increasingly difficult circumstances. He was executed in 1937.

Book Horse Trading in the Age of Cars

Download or read book Horse Trading in the Age of Cars written by Steven M. Gelber and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gelber's highly readable and lively prose makes clear how this unique economic ritual survived into the industrial twentieth century, in the process adding a colorful and interesting chapter to the history of the automobile.

Book Hespeler History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Langan
  • Publisher : Paul Langan
  • Release : 2022-01-20
  • ISBN : 1777864313
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Hespeler History written by Paul Langan and published by Paul Langan. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history on the early history of Bergeytown, New Hope, and Hespeler, Ontario by Winfield Brewster. Featuring the following booklets: J. Hespeler, New Hope C.W. - 1951 The Floodgate: Random Writings of Our Ain Folk - 1952 Hespeler Yarns - 1953 La Rue de Commerce; Queen St. Hespeler, Ontario, - 1954 plus The Short History of Hespeler Public School and rare Maps and Photos Compiled by Paul Langan

Book The Ever changing View

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anthony Godfrey
  • Publisher : U.S. Government Printing Office
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 688 pages

Download or read book The Ever changing View written by Anthony Godfrey and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2005 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region"

Book Hal Wallis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bernard F. Dick
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813159512
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Hal Wallis written by Bernard F. Dick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hal Wallis (1898-1986) might not be as well known as David O. Selznick or Samuel Goldwyn, but the films he produced—Casablanca, Jezebel, Now, Voyager, The Life of Emile Zola, Becket, True Grit, and many other classics (as well as scores of Elvis movies)—have certainly endured. As producer of numerous films, Wallis made an indelible mark on the course of America's film industry, but his contributions are often overlooked. Bernard Dick offers the first comprehensive assessment of the producer's incredible career. A former office boy and salesman, Wallis first engaged with the film business as the manager of a Los Angeles movie theater in 1922. He attracted the notice of the Warner brothers, who hired him as a publicity assistant. Within three months he was director of the department, and appointments to studio manager and production executive quickly followed. Wallis went on to oversee dozens of productions and formed his own production company in 1944. Dick draws on numerous sources such as Wallis's personal production files and exclusive interviews with many of his contemporaries to finally tell the full story of his illustrious career. Dick combines his knowledge of behind-the-scenes Hollywood with fascinating anecdotes to create a portrait of one of Hollywood's early power players.

Book Origin of Washington Geographic Names

Download or read book Origin of Washington Geographic Names written by Edmond Stephen Meany and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crane Flies of California

Download or read book The Crane Flies of California written by Charles Paul Alexander and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Idlewild

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ronald J. Stephens
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2013-09-30
  • ISBN : 0472029207
  • Pages : 421 pages

Download or read book Idlewild written by Ronald J. Stephens and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2013-09-30 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1912, white land developers founded Idlewild, an African American resort community in western Michigan. Over the following decades, the town became one of the country’s foremost vacation destinations for the black middle class, during its peak drawing tens of thousands of visitors annually and hosting the era’s premier entertainers, such as The Four Tops, Della Reese, Brook Benton, and George Kirby. With the civil rights movement and the resulting expansion of recreation options available to African Americans, Idlewild suffered a sharp social and economic decline, and by the early 1980s the town had become a struggling retirement community in the midst of financial and political crises. Meticulously researched and unearthing never-before-seen historical material, Ronald J. Stephens’s book examines the rapid rise and decline of this pivotal landmark in African American and leisure history, in the process exploring intersections among race, class, tourism, entertainment, and historic preservation in the United States. Featuring a wealth of fieldwork on contemporary Idlewild, the book also takes a candid look at recent revitalization efforts and analyzes the possibilities for a future resurgence of this national treasure.

Book Avak Hakobian

Download or read book Avak Hakobian written by Roy Weremchuk and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When conventional medicine fails, reservations about alternative healing methods disappear. This factor led to the young Armenian-Persian faith healer Avak Hakobian being invited to the USA in 1947. His mission: to heal a paralyzed Californian millionaire`s son. Then as now, charismatic healers benefit from the assumption that they have access to a mystical source or transcendent energy. Not a few people entrust such supposed healers with their physical as well as their spiritual well-being. "Avak Hakobian - From Fame to Failure" is the previously untold story of one such healer who for a time made headline news.

Book The Smoke of the Gods

    Book Details:
  • Author : Eric Burns
  • Publisher : Temple University Press
  • Release : 2006-10-06
  • ISBN : 9781592134823
  • Pages : 328 pages

Download or read book The Smoke of the Gods written by Eric Burns and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Spirits of America, an energetic history of tobacco use.

Book Mills  Atlas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Mills
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Mills Atlas written by Robert Mills and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reprint edition of MILLS' ATLAS has an especially prepared history and introduction to these maps as well as considerable history about Robert Mills, the man and architect, prepared be Mr. Gene Waddell, formerly Director of the South Carolina Historical Society, Charleston. These maps, originally 23 29 in size, have been conveniently reduced in size to 11 17 and folded to fit into an exquisitely gold-stamped simulated leather cover for book shelf or coffee table. The Districts for which maps are included are: Abbeville, Barnwell, Beaufort, Charleston, Chesterfield, Chester, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Fairfield, Greenville, Georgetown, Horry, Kershaw, Lancaster, Laurens, Lexington, Marion, Marlborough, Newberry, Orangeburg, Pendleton, Richland, Spartanburg, Sumter, Union, Williamsburg and York.

Book Selling Catholicism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher Owen Lynch
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2014-10-17
  • ISBN : 0813157099
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Selling Catholicism written by Christopher Owen Lynch and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the popularity of Milton Berle's television show began to slip, Berle quipped, "At least I'm losing my ratings to God!" He was referring to the popularity of "Life Is Worth Living" and its host, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. The show aired from 1952 to 1957, and Sheen won an Emmy, beating competition that included Lucille Ball, Jimmy Durante, and Edward R. Murrow. What was the secret to Sheen's on-air success? Christopher Lynch examines how he reached a diverse audience by using television to synthesize traditional American Protestantism with a reassuring vision of Catholicism as patriotic and traditional. Sheen provided his viewers with a sense of stability by sentimentalizing the medieval world and holding it out as a model for contemporary society. Offering clear-cut moral direction in order to eliminate the anxiety of cultural change, he discussed topics ranging from the role of women to the perils of Communism. Sheen's rhetoric united both Protestant and Catholic audiences, reflecting—and forming—a vision of mainstream, postwar America. Lynch argues that Sheen's persuasive television presentations helped Catholics gain social acceptance and paved the way for religious ecumenism in America. Yet, Sheen's work also sowed the seeds for the crisis of competing ideologies in the modern American Catholic Church.

Book Fix the Pumps

    Book Details:
  • Author : Darcy S. O'Neil
  • Publisher : Darcy O'Neil
  • Release : 2010-05
  • ISBN : 0981175910
  • Pages : 197 pages

Download or read book Fix the Pumps written by Darcy S. O'Neil and published by Darcy O'Neil. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fix the Pumps is a historical account of the golden era of soda fountains including over 450 recipes that made soda America's most popular drink.

Book Laws of the Territory of Nevada

Download or read book Laws of the Territory of Nevada written by Nevada and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Fresno County  California

Download or read book History of Fresno County California written by Paul E. Vandor and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: