Download or read book Memories of Merritt Island written by Gail Briggs Nolen and published by Book Hub Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-17 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating glimpse into the past, Gail Briggs Nolen’s Memories of Merritt Island records the history of Merritt Island, Florida when two families homesteaded on land which is now part of the Kennedy Space Center. The collection of family memories transports readers back to a time before the rockets came, offering a charming excursion both in pictures and in words into the lives of two families of pioneers: the Briggs and Benecke families.

Download or read book Memories of Merritt Island written by Gail Briggs Nolen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Merritt Island and Cocoa Beach written by Ada Edmiston Parrish and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Central Brevard County is almost as long and complicated as the geographical borders of the county itself. Stretching north and south for 77 miles, Brevard County is a thin strip of land, barely 20 miles across at its widest point. Within these narrow confines, however, diverse and dynamic communities have left their marks and many continue to flourish, among them Merritt Island and Cocoa Beach. Only 32 miles in length, Merritt Island was once a scrub-covered parcel of land settled by hardy pioneers who raised cattle and cultivated citrus, vegetable, and pineapple crops. Though now a commercial and residential center, the careful observer can still find, tucked away in hammocks along the shore and surrounded by million-dollar homes, the old citrus groves, simple homes built by early settlers, and the remnants of small communities that were once hubs of activity. Cocoa Beach owes much of its story to the vision and energy of a single man, Gus Edwards, who promoted the area as a resort to rival the communities of Miami Beach and Venice. With the coming of the space program to Florida's Atlantic coast in the late 1940s and early 1950s, the area built upon elaborately drawn subdivision plats and a few scattered buildings to become the bustling modern city it is today.

Download or read book We Loved It All A Memory of Life written by Lydia Millet and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by the Washington Post, Oprah Daily, and Literary Hub This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened. Across more than a dozen acclaimed works of fiction, readers have become intimate with Lydia Millet’s distinctive voice and sly wit. We Loved It All, her first nonfiction book, combines the precision of fact with the power of narrative to evoke our enmeshment with the more-than-human world. Emerging from Millet’s quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved it All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to “the others”— the animals and plants with whom we share the earth. Accounts of fears and failures, jobs and friendships, childhood and motherhood are interspersed with exquisite accounts of nonhumans and arresting meditations on the power of story to shape the future. Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate, turning away from more sweeping views, she examines how grand cultural myths can deny our longing for the company of nature and deprive us of its charisma and inspiration. In a thrilling distillation of experience and emotion, she evinces the familiar sense of feeling both well-meaning and powerless—a creature subject to forces that are baffling in their immensity. The fear and grief of extinction and climate change, Millet suggests, are forms of love that might be turned to resistance. We Loved It All shimmers with curiosity and laconic humor yet addresses with reverence the most urgent crises of our day. An incantatory, bewitching devotional to the vast and precious bestiary of the earth, it asks that we extend to other living beings the protection they deserve—the simple grace of continued existence.

Download or read book Cocoa Florida written by Bob Harvey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cocoa is the gateway to America's Spaceport. But before it became the tourist haven it is today, it was a small village settled by fishermen and their families. The city's location on the Indian River Lagoon made it central to early steamboat passage and breathed life into fishing and commerce. After World War II, the space age brought science and engineering to nearby Cape Canaveral. The city also has a history of baseball nearly as long as the sport itself. It was home to the Cocoa Fliers of the 1940s and hosted the Houston Colt 45s during spring training for twenty years. Join author Bob Harvey as he recounts the sunny history of one of the Space Coast's oldest cities.

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Download or read book A Land Remembered written by Patrick D. Smith and published by Pineapple PressInc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of the MacIvey family of Florida from 1858 to 1968.

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Download or read book Memories of a Maine Island written by Marie Locke and published by Maine Folklife Center. This book was released on 1998 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Birding Big Year and Beyond written by Jane Neskey and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my birding adventures with family and friends. The places I traveled near and far in my search for birds. The many beautiful places I visited that I may not have ever visited if not for my hobby of birding. My many first-time experiences that wouldn't have happened if not for birding. I made new friends and enjoyed the camaraderie of fellow birders. The time spent with family searching for birds strengthened our bonds and created many wonderful memories to last a lifetime.

Download or read book In Remembrance of Me written by Jim Henry and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this authoritative guide to the Lord's Supper, Jim Henry underscored the biblical basis for the practice, then offers practical suggestions for congregations seeking to conform their worship service to the will of God.

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Download or read book Memories of Manitou Island Lake Superior Keweenaw County Michigan written by Lawrence Trever Fadner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manitou Island, Keweenaw Co., MIchigan

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Download or read book Mattie Sams Diary written by Mattie Sams LaRoche and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sams family came to Brevard County, Florida from South Carolina in 1875 to take advantage of the 1860 Homestead Act. John Hanahan Sams died in 1923 and his estate was occupied by his descendants until 1995. The John Sams and James LaRoche families settled first near present-day Eau Gallie in 1875. in 1878, Mattie's family moved their house to Merritt Island and homesteaded north of John's brother, Seabrook Sams, at Courtenay. Mattie writes that "...they took our Eau Gallie house to pieces and rafted it to his landing." When Mattie was growing old, she wrote down memories of her life along the Indian River. Now we can sit under the ancestor oaks and read Mattie's recollections. These moss-covered oaks have shaded the Sams House for over a century. Mattie Sams and her brothers and sisters grew up here. Today the cabin houses a museum telling the story of these early pioneers of Brevard County.