Download or read book Illustrations of the Seals Arms and Flags of Rhode Island written by Howard M. Chapin and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Remembering Smithfield written by Jim Ignasher and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legend of John Noforce- whose puzzling death may have been the result of a Native American Romeo and Juliet saga- 1676's bloody Nipsachuck massacre and the scandalous downfall of the poor farm and asylum are a few of the tales that linger among historic Smithfield's fields and forests. Once home to 'Apple King' Thomas K. Winsor and Arthur C. Gould, frustrated inventor of Rhode Island's first and only aircraft rest stop, this storied town has known both triumph and tragedy. Local author Jim Ignasher's expertly woven collection of vignettes speaks to the ever-enduring spirit of Smithfield's people. From illegal ice cream peddlers to a mysterious traveler killed by his own pet rattlesnake, the roots of this vibrant community extend far beyond its celebrated apple orchards

Download or read book Between Land and Sea written by Christopher L. Pastore and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the largest estuaries on the North Atlantic coast, Narragansett Bay served as a gateway for colonial expansion in the seventeenth century and the birthplace of American industrialization in the late eighteenth. Christopher Pastore presents an environmental history of this watery corner of the Atlantic world, beginning with the first European settlement in 1636 and ending with the dissolution of the Blackstone Canal Company in 1849. Between Land and Sea traces how the Bay’s complex ecology shaped the contours of European habitation, trade, and resource use, and how littoral settlers in turn reconfigured the physical and cultural boundaries between humans and nature. Narragansett Bay emerges in Pastore’s account as much more than a geological formation. Rather, he reimagines the nexus of land and sea as a brackish borderland shaped by the tension between what English settlers saw as improvable land and the perpetual forces of the North Atlantic Ocean. By draining swamps, damming rivers, and digging canals, settlers transformed a marshy coastal margin into a clearly defined edge. The resultant “coastline” proved less resilient, less able to absorb the blows of human initiative and natural variation than the soggy fractal of water and earth it replaced. Today, as sea levels rise and superstorms batter coasts with increasing ferocity, Between Land and Sea calls on the environmentally-minded to make a space in their notions of progress for impermanence and uncertainty in the natural world.

Download or read book Banking on Dreams written by Karen Petit and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Go into the vault and get the big bills, John commanded. Lisa hesitated. Her eyes moved anxiously to the open vault door; its heavy hinges cast shadows that blended into the darkness of the interior. She said in a soft voice, I dont like the vault. It gives me nightmares. John laughed cruelly. Do you really expect me to believe youre a bank teller whos scared of bank vaults? Lisa nodded her head. John waved his gun at her. This is a robbery, and this gun is not a dream. Lisa Reilly, teller at First National Consumer Bank in Rhode Island, ballroom dancer, and hopeful romantic, is a dreamer. She experiences lucid dreams now and again, and she hopes to harness them, making the plots of her dreams bend to her will. She also has terrible nightmares of being stuck inside the vault at the bank and sometimes dreams of having a boyfriend too. Lisa never really thought shed be a victim in an actual armed robbery, but when she suddenly finds herself moving toward the vault, trying to survive a real-life bank robbery, her worst nightmares are realized. Will Lisa ever be able to have a lucid dream where she is in control? Will she be able to overcome her bank vault nightmares? Will she survive the real-life robbery? Find out as you travel through Lisas dreams and reality, crossing the bridge between the two worlds in Dr. Karen Petits exciting and romantic novel, Banking on Dreams.

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Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book State Names Seals Flags and Symbols written by Benjamin F. Shearer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2001-10-30 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This must-have third revised and newly expanded edition of the only single reference source for information about state symbols features over 300 information updates plus three new chapters, updated license plate illustrations, and a newly formatted design for ease of use. Libraries that hold earlier editions of this work need this edition to keep their information on the states and territories current. With the addition of new chapters on state and territory universities, state and territory governors throughout U.S. history, state professional sports teams, and a complete revision of the chapter on state and territory fairs and festivals, the work now totals 17 chapters of essential information that is a treasure trove for students. This completed redesigned reference work features chapters on state and territory names and nicknames, mottoes, seals, flags, capitals, flowers, trees, birds, songs, legal holidays and observances, license plates, postage stamps, miscellaneous designations, fairs and festivals, universities, governors, professional sports teams, and a bibliography of state and territory histories. The work features full-color illustrations of every state and territory seal, flag, flower, tree, bird, commemorative postage stamp, and license plate (updated for this edition).

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Download or read book GRAVE UNDERTAKINGS written by RUBERTONE PATRICIA E and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 2001-03-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By weaving textual and archaeological evidence with community memory, Rubertone challenges the canonical account of Roger Williams' "A Key Into the Language of America" (1643). She imagines a more complicated and dynamic history of Native cultural survival and persistence in New England.

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Download or read book Fat Mutton and Liberty of Conscience written by Carl Bridenbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dark cloud of New England Puritanism has hung over Rhode Island for too long, obscuring the true nature of its early history. In this book, local history is viewed against a wide regional background, dispelling this cloud with new evidence that enables the author to re-create the prosperous society of seventeenth-century Narragansett Bay and to rassess the role of that society in teh development of New England.

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Download or read book Rhode Island a Bibliography of Its History written by Committee for a New England Bibliography and published by Hanover, N.H. : University Press of New England. This book was released on 1983 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book More Books written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.