Download or read book Montana Roadside Crosses written by Brewster Moseley and published by Sweetgrass Books. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join author and photographer Brewster Moseley in his newest book, Montana Roadside Crosses, produced by Sweetgrass Books. Montana's roads have numerous crosses marking where fatalities have occurred. The American Legion began placing crosses in Montana in 1953. Today, numerous crosses dot Montana roadways, serving as a memorial for those who perished and as a reminder of the dangers of Montana's roads. For Moseley, driving through the Big Sky state continues to draw emotions, from sadness to inspiration, when he sees a cross by the roadside. In Montana Roadside Crosses, Moseley shares the beauty of these cross memorials with photographs of the various sites across the state.
Download or read book Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture written by Holly J. Everett and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is a study of roadside crosses in which the author presents the history of these unique commemoratives and their relationship to contemporary memorial culture.
Download or read book Montana s Historical Highway Markers written by Robert H. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Memorials to Shattered Myths written by Harriet Senie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11 traces the evolution and consequences of a new hybrid paradigm, which grants a heroic status to victims of national tragedies, and by extension to their families, thereby creating a class of privileged participants in the permanent memorial process. Harriet F. Senie suggests that instead the victims' families be able to determine the nature of an interim memorial, one that addresses their needs in the critical time between the murder of their loved ones and the completion of the permanent memorial. She also observes that the memorials discussed herein are inadvertently based on strategies of diversion and denial that direct our attention away from actual events, and reframe tragedy as secular or religious triumph. In doing so, they camouflage history, and seen as an aggregate, they define a nation of victims, exactly the concept they and their accompanying celebratory narratives were apparently created to obscure.
Download or read book One Wheel Many Spokes written by Lars Christian Clausen and published by Straight Into Gay America. This book was released on 2004 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a story of a man riding a unicycle across America. The author tells of his 50-state unicycle trip from the West Coast to the Statue of Liberty and back again. He describes his spoke-by-spoke trek through a Mojave dust storm, past breathtaking, snow-capped Montana mountains, and close to a raging hurricane.
Download or read book Memorial Mania written by Erika Doss and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-09-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past few decades, thousands of new memorials to executed witches, victims of terrorism, and dead astronauts, along with those that pay tribute to civil rights, organ donors, and the end of Communism have dotted the American landscape. Equally ubiquitous, though until now less the subject of serious inquiry, are temporary memorials: spontaneous offerings of flowers and candles that materialize at sites of tragic and traumatic death. In Memorial Mania, Erika Doss argues that these memorials underscore our obsession with issues of memory and history, and the urgent desire to express—and claim—those issues in visibly public contexts. Doss shows how this desire to memorialize the past disposes itself to individual anniversaries and personal grievances, to stories of tragedy and trauma, and to the social and political agendas of diverse numbers of Americans. By offering a framework for understanding these sites, Doss engages the larger issues behind our culture of commemoration. Driven by heated struggles over identity and the politics of representation, Memorial Mania is a testament to the fevered pitch of public feelings in America today.
Download or read book Roadside crosses written by Jeffery Deaver and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Taming Big Sky Country written by Jon Axline and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drives this breathtaking did not come easy. Cruising down Montana's scenic highways, it's easy to forget that traveling from here to there once was a genuine adventure. The state's major routes evolved from ancient Native American trails into four-lane expressways in a little over a century. That story is one of difficult, groundbreaking and sometimes poor engineering decisions, as well as a desire to make a journey faster, safer and more comfortable. It all started in 1860, when John Mullan hacked a wagon road over the formidable Rocky Mountains to Fort Benton. It continued until the last section of interstate highway opened to traffic in 1988. Montana Department of Transportation historian Jon Axline charts a road trip through the colorful and inspiring history of trails, roads and superhighways in Big Sky Country.
Download or read book Montana Highway History written by Montana. Highway Planning Survey and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Wooden Crosses written by Roylynn Evans and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and paintings by Roylynn Evans of roadside memorials along the roads and highways of the Southwestern United States. Memorials to honor victims os fatal traffic accidents, erected at the exact location of the accidents where family members or friends lost their lives. Roadside memorials found in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and Nevada.
Download or read book Omega written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Road Trip USA The Great Northern Highway 2 written by Jamie Jensen and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional traveler Jamie Jensen traveled more than 400,000 miles to bring you the best-selling guide Road Trip USA. In this expanded tour of the Great Northern, Jamie takes you from the Pacific port of Seattle to the breathtaking Acadia National Park. Following US-2 through wide-open spaces, Road Trip USA: The Great Northern, Highway 2 highlights major cities, obscure towns, popular attractions, roadside curiosities, historic sites, and oddball trivia, covering every aspect of this gorgeous trek across America. Exit the interstates and “get away from it all” on US-2 with Road Trip USA: The Great Northern, Highway 2.
Download or read book Grassroots Memorials written by Peter Jan Margry and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and more dynamic ways of representing collective and individual identities and in doing so reveal the steps that shape the national memories of those who struggle to come to terms with traumatic loss. This volume focuses on the hybrid quality of these temporary memorials as both monuments of mourning and as focal points for protest and expression of discontent. The broad range of case studies in this volume include anti-mafia shrines, Theo van Gogh’s memorial, September 11th memorials, March 11th shrines in Madrid, and Carlo Giuliani memorials in Genoa.
Download or read book Roadside Crosses written by Rae Michelle Broadnax and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roadside Crosses is about the people behind six of the roadside memorial crosses in GA and AL. Who were they? What what did they like and dislike? How were they remembered and de-scribed by their loved ones? This book is unique because there is not another one on the market which focuses strict-ly on the victims of these sudden and tragic accidents. Subjects' ages range from 15 years to 19 years. Seven parents graciously agreed to be interviewed; their families wish to see the book as a tribute to their loved ones and a valida-tion of their very short lives. Publishing
Download or read book Roadside Crosses written by James McGee and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Road Trip USA written by Jamie Jensen and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 1741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criss-cross the country on America's two-lane highways with the ultimate guide to the classic road trip. InsideRoad Trip USA you'll find: 11 routes through the heart of America, color-coded and extensively cross-referenced to allow for hundreds of possible itineraries Mile-by-mile highlights celebrating the best of Americana, including roadside curiosities, parks, diners, and the local history and personality that makes each small town and big city unique Over 125 streamlined maps covering more than 35,000 miles of two-lane American blacktop Full-color photos and illustrations of America both then and now Expert advice from road-warrior Jamie Jensen, who sped along nearly 400,000 miles of highway in search of the perfect stretches of pavement Insight into the great American road trip, as well as resources, history, and fun facts along the way About Moon Travel Guides: Moon was founded in 1973 to empower independent, active, and conscious travel. We prioritize local businesses, outdoor recreation, and traveling strategically and sustainably. Moon Travel Guides are written by local, expert authors with great stories to tell—and they can't wait to share their favorite places with you. Hit the road, roll down the windows, and discover the soul of the country with Road Trip USA.
Download or read book Montana s Historical Highway Markers written by Glenda Clay Bradshaw and published by Montana Historical Society. This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkable stories from Montana's historical highway markers combine with easy-to-follow maps, historical photos and sketches, and geological information to illuminate the paths of Montana's past and present. This guidebook alerts travelers about places that merit a stop and allows them to read about the site at their leisure. But even if time is short, travelers can refer to descriptions and historical photographs to learn about Montana's past as they journey across the state.
