Download or read book Kingston upon Thames Then Now written by Tim Everson and published by Pitkin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once an ancient Surrey market town, Kingston-upon-Thames is now a thriving suburb of Southwest London, which still boasts an impressive market, and an extensive range of shops, restaurants and visitor attractions. Kingston-upon-Thames Then & Now compares historical images of the area with modern photographs of the same viewpoints today. We can see just how much has changed, and also what has survived the threats of war, demolition and redevelopment. A fascinating peak into the rich history of Kingston-upon-Thames, this book should be equally absorbing for those who know and love the area, and for those who love British history.
Download or read book Kingston Then And Now written by John Rigdon and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingston Then and Now is designed to be a self-guided tour to the more than 20 significant historic sites in and near Kingston, GA. Hidden in the upper west corner of Bartow County lies the town of Kingston - really now just a sleepy hamlet, but there once was a day when Kingston played an important part in our nation's history. Kingston wasn't then, nor is it now just about the events that occurred there. It's about the people who made history happen. This is their story. If you get a chance to visit in person, take the time to visit with the folks who now call Kingston home. It was their family who made this history, and it is their family stories that preserve it. - Settled in the 1830's while the area was Cherokee Indian territory. - In 1849 the Memphis Branch Railroad was opened connecting Savannah and Charleston with the Mississippi and Chattanooga to the North. - Major supplier for Confederate gunpowder with the mineral saltpeter mined nearby. - Home to Georgia's most significant cave, the Kingston Saltpeter cave. - The Great Locomotive Chase was sidetracked and impeded at Kingston on April 12, 1862. - Confederate hospital center that included a "Wayside Home" for rehabilitation which served more than 10,000 men. - During the Atlanta Campaign, Confederate and Federal armies marched through Kingston. - Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman spent May 19-23, 1864, in Kingston planning his attack on Atlanta. - The beginning of Sherman's March to the Sea. - Served as a supply base for the Federal army. - Kingston was the birthplace of Memorial Day. - The final surrender of Confederate troops east of the Mississippi. - Michelle Obama's great great great grand-mother lived in Kingston and is buried there. - Post-War, a number of other people of note have ties to Kingston. ◦ Lovick Pierce ◦ Clement Evans ◦ Miss Martha Berry ◦ Mrs. Kate Strong ◦ Dr. D. H. Felton ◦ Rebecca Latimer Felton ◦ Lottie Moon ◦ Sam Jones ◦ Everett B. D. Fabrina Julio ◦ Simon Peter Richardson ◦ Bishop George F. Pierce ◦ Dr. William Harrell Felton
Download or read book Kingston Then and Now written by John C. Rigdon and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingston Then and Now is designed to be a self-guided tour to the more than 20 significant historic sites in and near Kingston, GA.Hidden in the upper west corner of Bartow County lies the town of Kingston - really now just a sleepy hamlet, but there once was a day when Kingston played an important part in our nation's history. Kingston wasn't then, nor is it now just about the events that occurred there. It's about the people who made history happen. This is their story. If you get a chance to visit in person, take the time to visit with the folks who now call Kingston home. It was their family who made this history, and it is their family stories that preserve it.* Settled in the 1830's while the area was Cherokee Indian territory. * In 1849 the Memphis Branch Railroad was opened connecting Savannah and Charleston with the Mississippi and Chattanooga to the North. * Major supplier for Confederate gunpowder with the mineral saltpeter mined nearby.* Home to Georgia's most significant cave, the Kingston Saltpeter cave.* The Great Locomotive Chase was sidetracked and impeded at Kingston on April 12, 1862. * Confederate hospital center that included a "Wayside Home" for rehabilitation which served more than 10,000 men.* During the Atlanta Campaign, Confederate and Federal armies marched through Kingston. * Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman spent May 19-23, 1864, in Kingston planning his attack on Atlanta.* The beginning of Sherman's March to the Sea.* Served as a supply base for the Federal army.* Kingston was the birthplace of Memorial Day. * The final surrender of Confederate troops east of the Mississippi.* Michelle Obama's great great great grandmother lived in Kingston and is buried there.* Post-War, a number of other people of note have ties to Kingston.o Lovick Pierceo Clement Evanso Miss Martha Berryo Mrs. Kate Strongo Dr. D. H. Feltono Rebecca Latimer Feltono Lottie Moono Sam Joneso Everett B. D. Fabrina Julio o Simon Peter Richardsono Bishop George F. Pierceo Dr. William Harrell Felton
Download or read book Kingston by Starlight written by Christopher John Farley and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-06-28 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish-born Anne Bonny is only a teenager when she is left destitute by her mother’s death. Abandoned by her father, she seems destined to be forgotten by the world. But Anne chooses to seek her fortune in the lush tropics of the colonial West Indies, where she passes herself off as a young man named Bonn. She finds work as a ship’s hand, sailing under the command of Calico Jack Rackam, a notorious and charismatic pirate with a bounty on his head. Calico Jack has his heart set on raiding the Madrid Galleon, the richest ship in the Caribbean, which sails from Kingston laden with Cuban gold and Jamaican rum. Bonn is entranced by the sea and by the ship’s violent crew, which includes a mysterious swordfighter named Read, who, it turns out, has a secret life of his own. Calico Jack soon discovers Bonn’s and Read’s true identities, but it is only when the three pirates are captured that their darkest secrets begin to surface. In the shadow of the gallows, a strange twist of fate reveals a shocking betrayal that may save Bonn from death, while permanently changing everything she has known about her past and the world around her. Gorgeously written and full of mystery, intrigue, and startling revelations about gender, race, history, and the human heart, Kingston by Starlight is a once-in-a-lifetime read.
Download or read book Kingston Noir written by Colin Channer and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Subverts the simplistic sunshine/reggae/spliff-smoking image of Jamaica at almost every turn . . . with a rich interplay of geographies and themes.” —Los Angeles Times From Trench Town to Half Way Tree to Norbrook to Portmore and beyond, the stories of Kingston Noir shine light into the darkest corners of this fabled city. Joining award-winning Jamaican authors such as Marlon James, Leone Ross, and Thomas Glave are two “special guest” writers with no Jamaican lineage: Nigerian-born Chris Abani and British writer Ian Thomson. The menacing tone that runs through some of these stories is counterbalanced by the clever humor in others, such as Kei Miller’s “White Gyal with a Camera,” who softens even the hardest of August Town’s gangsters; and Mr. Brown, the private investigator in Kwame Dawes’s story, who explains why his girth works to his advantage: “In Jamaica a woman like a big man. She can see he is prosperous, and that he can be in charge.” Together—with more contributions from Patricia Powell, Colin Channer, Marcia Douglas, and Christopher John Farley—the outstanding tales in Kingston Noir comprise the best volume of short fiction ever to arise from the literary wellspring that is Jamaica. “Thoroughly well-written stories . . . fans of noir will enjoy this batch of sordid tales set in the sweltering heat of the tropics.” —Publishers Weekly “An eclectic and gritty mélange of tales that sears the imagination . . . Kingston Noir proves its worth as a quintessential piece of West Indian literature—rich, artistic, timeless, and above all, draped in unmistakable realism.” —The Gleaner (Jamaica)
Download or read book The Old Stones of Kingston written by Margaret Angus and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-12-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kingston is remarkable in that the visual evidence of its place in Canadian history and in Canadian architecture is still here: many of its older streets are lined with houses built of stone, and charming old limestone farm houses are found even in new subdivisions, surrounded now by modern, split-level dwellings. This book will inform and delight all those who take pleasure in the old buildings and in the social history of this country. Mrs Angus presents the stories of some of the architecturally and historically important limestone buildings, and of their owners, and thus tells the story of Kingston from the landing of the Empire Loyalists in 1784, through its brief period as capital of Canada (1841-43) up to Confederation. Full-page photographs illustrate the buildings; maps show the changing shape of the community, and help the reader to locate the buildings discussed in the text.
Download or read book Kingston the Islands written by Peter Milliken and published by Magic Light Pub.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fifth Book of Peace written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long time ago in China, there existed three Books of Peace that proved so threatening to the reigning powers that they had them burned. Many years later Maxine Hong Kingston wrote a Fourth Book of Peace, but it too was burned--in the catastrophic Berkeley-Oakland Hills fire of 1991, a fire that coincided with the death of her father. Now in this visionary and redemptive work, Kingston completes her interrupted labor, weaving fiction and memoir into a luminous meditation on war and peace, devastation and renewal.
Download or read book The Woman Warrior written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An exhilarating blend of autobiography and mythology, of world and self, of hot rage and cool analysis. First published in 1976, it has become a classic in its innovative portrayal of multiple and intersecting identities—immigrant, female, Chinese, American. • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER “A classic, for a reason.” —Celeste Ng, bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts, via Twitter As a girl, Kingston lives in two confounding worlds: the California to which her parents have immigrated and the China of her mother’s “talk stories.” The fierce and wily women warriors of her mother’s tales clash jarringly with the harsh reality of female oppression out of which they come. Kingston’s sense of self emerges in the mystifying gaps in these stories, which she learns to fill with stories of her own. A warrior of words, she forges fractured myths and memories into an incandescent whole, achieving a new understanding of her family’s past and her own present.
Download or read book Kingston and the Magician s Lost and Found written by Rucker Moses and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic has all but disappeared in Brooklyn, but one tenacious young magician is determined to bring it back in this exciting middle grade mystery. Twelve-year-old Kingston has just moved from the suburbs back to Echo City, Brooklyn—the last place his father was seen alive. Kingston's father was King Preston, one of the world's greatest magicians. Until one trick went wrong and he disappeared. Now that Kingston is back in Echo City, he's determined to find his father. Somehow, though, when his father disappeared, he took all of Echo City's magic with him. Now Echo City—a ghost of its past—is living up to its name. With no magic left, the magicians have packed up and left town and those who've stayed behind don't look too kindly on any who reminds them of what they once had. When Kingston finds a magic box his father left behind as a clue, Kingston knows there's more to his father's disappearance than meets the eye. He'll have to keep it a secret—that is, until he can restore magic to Echo City. With his cousin Veronica and childhood friend Too Tall Eddie, Kingston works to solve the clues, but one wrong move and his father might not be the only one who goes missing.
Download or read book Greenback Dollar written by William J. Bush and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How big an act was the Kingston Trio? Big enough that the their first 19 albums not only reached Billboard's Top 100, but 14 of them entered the top 10, with five albums alone hitting the no. 1 spot At the height of their popularity, the Kingston Trio was arguably the most popular vocal group in the world, having single-handedly ushered in the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s. Their meteoric rise quite literally paved the way for Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul & Mary; and the many acts that followed in their wake. With the release of their version of "Tom Dooley" in fall 1958, the Kingston Trio changed American popular music forever, inspiring legions of young listeners to pick up guitars and banjoes and join together in hootenannies and sing-alongs. In Greenback Dollar: The Incredible Rise of The Kingston Trio, the first in-depth biography of America's first recording super-group, William J. Bush retraces the band members' personal and professional lives, from their rapid rise to stardom to their early retirement in 1967. Through interviews with Trio members, their families, and associates, Bush paints a detailed portrait of the Trio's formative early years and sudden popular success, their innovations in recording technology, pioneering of the college concert and intensive tour schedule, their impact on and response to the '60s protest movement, the first break-up of the Trio with Dave Guard's departure, and its re-formation with John Stewart. Lovers of folk music and students and scholars of the history of popular music and the music business, the counterculture movement, and the American folk tradition will find in Greenback Dollar a remarkably detailed view of the musical and cultural legacy that resulted in the Kingston Trio receiving a 2011 Lifetime Achievement Award at the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.
Download or read book I Love a Broad Margin to My Life written by Maxine Hong Kingston and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her singular voice—both humble and brave, touching and humorous—Maxine Hong Kingston gives us a poignant and beautiful memoir-in-verse that captures the wisdom that comes with age. As she reflects on her sixty-five years, she circles from present to past and back, from lunch with a writer friend to the funeral of a Vietnam veteran, from her long marriage to her arrest at a peace march in Washington. On her journeys as writer, peace activist, teacher, and mother, she revisits her most beloved characters—Wittman Ah-Sing, the Tripmaster Monkey, and Fa Mook Lan, the Woman Warrior—and presents us with a beautiful meditation on China then and now. The result is a marvelous account of an American life of great purpose and joy, and the tonic wisdom of a writer we have come to cherish.
Download or read book Until Kingston written by Shanna Swenson and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything was going great? Until Kingston.Guinevere WatsonI'm twenty-four years old and living my best life as a kindergarten teacher...or was, until the night I meet him. Tall, tattooed, and tasty-bad-ass biker and musician Kingston Black. Our night is filled with sinful indulgence, but within the week, I've lost both my job and duplex because I'm his alibi following the murder of a fellow biker.Now all I see is red. I will have my vengeance, if it's the last thing I do. Only, I didn't prepare for falling in love...or being pregnant with his baby. Fate is a cruel b!@#h.Kingston BlackGuin, she's a sexy little Tinkerbell and ever since our hot night together-and the BOOM! I felt-she's all I can think about. She's my daughter's teacher, or was until my bad reputation got her canned. Now what kind of guy would I be if I didn't help her out? Next thing I know, I'm inviting her to move in with me and my girls. She's now my roommate, and as a single dad with two daughters working three jobs, I can use all the help I can get. Despite her terrorizing me at every turn with mischievous pranks, I'll break down her walls...and won't stop until she's mine. However, my sordid past may end up destroying "us" before we even get started.***Until Kingston is a part of Aurora Rose Reynold's HEA world and is connected to Until December. This is a single dad, roommates to lovers, secret baby, biker romance with suspense and action.
Download or read book Soulstar written by C. L. Polk and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Soulstar, C. L. Polk concludes her riveting Kingston Cycle, a whirlwind of magic, politics, romance, and intrigue that began with the World Fantasy Award-winning Witchmark. Assassinations, deadly storms, and long-lost love haunt the pages of this thrilling final volume. For years, Robin Thorpe has kept her head down, staying among her people in the Riverside neighborhood and hiding the magic that would have her imprisoned by the state. But when Grace Hensley comes knocking on Clan Thorpe’s door, Robin’s days of hiding are at an end. As freed witches flood the streets of Kingston, scrambling to reintegrate with a kingdom that destroyed their lives, Robin begins to plot a course that will ensure a freer, juster Aeland. At the same time, she has to face her long-bottled feelings for the childhood love that vanished into an asylum twenty years ago. Can Robin find happiness among the rising tides of revolution? Can Kingston survive the blizzards that threaten, the desperate monarchy, and the birth throes of democracy? Find out as the Kingston Cycle comes to an end. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Kingston s Magazine for Boys written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Then and Now written by Organization of Kingston Women Artists and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Seven Visitations of Sydney Burgess written by Andy Marino and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an electrifying voice in horror comes the haunting tale of a woman whose life begins to unravel after a home invasion. “Marino offers horrors both existential and visceral. From a stunning opening, the sense of dread just builds and builds.” —M. R. Carey, author of The Girl with All the Gifts "Odd and dark and fascinating . . . Not quite like anything I've ever read before. A strange, compelling, late-night page-turner. It kept me reading way past my bedtime." —T. Kingfisher, author of The Hollow Places Possession is an addiction. Sydney's spent years burying her past and building a better life for herself and her young son. A respectable marketing job, a house with reclaimed and sustainable furniture, and a boyfriend who loves her son and accepts her, flaws and all. But when she opens her front door, and a masked intruder knocks her briefly unconscious, everything begins to unravel. She wakes in the hospital and tells a harrowing story of escape. Of dashing out a broken window. Of running into her neighbors' yard and calling the police. The cops tell her a different story. Because the intruder is now lying dead in her guest room—murdered in a way that looks intimately personal. Sydney can't remember killing the man. No one believes her. Back home, as horrific memories surface, an unnatural darkness begins whispering in her ear. Urging her back to old addictions and a past she's buried to build a better life for herself and her son. As Sydney searches for truth among the wreckage of a past that won't stay buried for long, the unquiet darkness begins to grow. To change into something unimaginable. To reveal terrible cravings of its own. “Admirers of the works of Tana French, Megan Abbott, and Zoje Stage will devour this book.” —Booklist
