Download or read book More Wandering Back Roads West Virginia with Carl E Feather written by Carl Feather and published by Feather Cottage Media. This book was released on 2024-03-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over four decades, Carl E. Feather periodically wandered The Mountain State's byways to document the stories and lifestyles of its fascinating residents. More than 100 of the resulting photo essays and narratives have appeared inGOLDENSEAL magazine, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. In this second volume of these back-road adventures, Carl witnesses feats of strength by a 73-year-old metal artist, waits for the mail to be put up by Calvin Shifflett in Glady, chats with the founder/owner of the state's oldest independent book store, listens to heavenly strains in Shepherdstown, relates the story of Punch Jones and his famous alluvial diamond, attends Singing in the Hills with founder Dorsey Wiseman, and visits with the couple whose vision and hard work made Seneca Rocks a "Vacationland." From the panhandles to the high mountains, Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia is an engaging journey for all who love The Mountain State and its stories.
Download or read book Even More Wandering Back Roads West Virginia with Carl E Feather written by Carl Feather and published by Feather Cottage. This book was released on 2024-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over four decades, Carl E. Feather periodically wandered The Mountain State's byways to document the stories and lifestyles of its fascinating residents. More than 100 of the resulting photo essays and narratives have appeared in GOLDENSEAL magazine, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History.¿In this third volume of a series, Carl travels the back roads of the state to discover unusual lawn art, the stories behind an old red barn, the nostalgia of drive-in- movie theaters, poignant memories of a "Traveller's Repose," quirky roadside vendors, the passion of a musician/song catcher, old-fashioned barber shops, the state's last surviving Tuskegee Airman, and the fiddle player and longstanding mayor of Gorby Ridge. ¿Whether you are history buff, proud resident, native of West Virginia, or just enjoy reading Americana, the entire Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia is a great read!
Download or read book Wandering Back Roads West Virginia with Carl E Feather written by Carl E Feather and published by Feather Cottage Media. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over four decades, Carl E. Feather periodically wandered The Mountain State's byways to document the stories and lifestyles of its fascinating residents. More than 100 of the resulting photo essays and narratives have appeared in GOLDENSEAL magazine, West Virginia Department of Arts, Culture and History. In this first volume of a series, Carl presents fourteen stories from these myriad excursions into the heart of Central Appalachia. Join him as he walks the streets of Wheeling with a nighttime vigilante known as Moon Dog, discovers the execution tasks required of Moundsville prison guards, spends a day with the father of a Coalwood Rocket Boy, visits with old-timers who recall life in Bloody Mingo, pauses at a memorial chapel to a little boy, shells corn with the owner of an old mill, attends the Country Store Opry, meets a Minnie Pearl impersonator, and much more! From the panhandles to the coalfields, Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia is an engaging journey for all who love The Mountain State and its endearing people, culture, and history.
Download or read book Wandering Back Roads Places in West Virginia written by Carl Feather and published by . This book was released on 2024-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the fourth volume of the Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia with Carl E. Feather series, attention is given to unusual and historical places in The Mountain State. Using first-person interviews of these places, Carl writes about Organ Cave, the Berkeley and other W.Va. castles, Sharp's Store, Sweet Springs, Rosby's Rock, and more. The book also includes several profiles of Wheeling's creative community, including steamboat model maker John Bowman and artist Robert Villamagna.
Download or read book Wandering Tucker County West Virginia written by Carl Feather and published by . This book was released on 2024-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume in the Wandering Back-Roads West Virginia with Carl E. Feather focuses on Tucker County people and places, including the vibrant arts and tourism district of Thomas. Carl's interviews and photography stretch back to the early 1990s and include John DePollo, Jim Cooper and John Bright. There are stories about the Sportsman Club, clockmaker Doyle Kisner, Fairfax Stone, the Purple Fiddle, Blackwater Falls, a glassmaker, and more.
Download or read book The Telltale Lilac Bush and Other West Virginia Ghost Tales written by Ruth Ann Musick and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-09-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens of death, these tales reflect the inner lives—the hopes, beliefs, and fears—of a people. Like all folklore, these tales reveal much of the history of the region: its isolation and violence, the passions and bloodshed of the Civil War era, the hardships of miners and railroad laborers, and the lingering vitality of Old World traditions.
Download or read book The Covered Bridges of Ashtabula County Ohio written by Carl E. Feather and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When its first covered bridge was constructed on the Ashtabula-Trumbull Turnpike in 1832, Ashtabula County was closer to frontier than a "new Connecticut." Its rutted roads promised adventure and suggested prosperity but also great hardship. Covered bridges, made mostly of local timber, would eventually soften the brutality of travel, isolation and a well-watered landscape. Their proliferation and preservation gave Ashtabula County the nickname "Covered Bridge Capital of the Western Reserve." Admire both famous and forgotten crossings with Carl E. Feather, who has spent over a quarter century mired in muddy creek beds, camera in hand, waiting for the perfect light."
Download or read book Man and His Symbols written by Carl G. Jung and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.
Download or read book Ashtabula Harbor Ohio written by Carl E. Feather and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ashtabula Harbor was a sleepy Lake Erie port until 1873, when competing railroads finally connected it to the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio. Within two decades, it had become the greatest iron ore receiving port on the Great Lakes. Much of the greatness was due to immigrant labor - Finns, Italians, Irish and many others found work, home and a better life in Ashtabula. The Harbor had a reputation for being the toughest port on the Great Lakes, thanks to dozens of saloons, brothels, fights, murders and bums. This is a story of innovation, hard work, transformations and revival, the story of the world's greatest iron ore receiving port.
Download or read book O Pioneers written by Willa Cather and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-07-15 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the young Swedish-descended Alexandra Bergson inherits her father's farm in Nebraska, she must transform the land from a wind-swept prairie landscape into a thriving enterprise. She dedicates herself completely to the land—at the cost of great sacrifices. O Pioneers! [1913] is Willa Cather's great masterpiece about American pioneers, where the land is as important a character as the people who cultivate it. WILLA CATHER [1873-1947] was an American author. After studying at the University of Nebraska, she worked as a teacher and journalist. Cather's novels often focus on settlers in the USA with a particular emphasis on female pioneers. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the novel One of Ours, and in 1943, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Download or read book The Book of Nightmares written by Galway Kinnell and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book-length poem evokes the horror, anguish, and brutality of 20th century history.
Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Download or read book Statistical Rethinking written by Richard McElreath and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-03 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statistical Rethinking: A Bayesian Course with Examples in R and Stan builds readers’ knowledge of and confidence in statistical modeling. Reflecting the need for even minor programming in today’s model-based statistics, the book pushes readers to perform step-by-step calculations that are usually automated. This unique computational approach ensures that readers understand enough of the details to make reasonable choices and interpretations in their own modeling work. The text presents generalized linear multilevel models from a Bayesian perspective, relying on a simple logical interpretation of Bayesian probability and maximum entropy. It covers from the basics of regression to multilevel models. The author also discusses measurement error, missing data, and Gaussian process models for spatial and network autocorrelation. By using complete R code examples throughout, this book provides a practical foundation for performing statistical inference. Designed for both PhD students and seasoned professionals in the natural and social sciences, it prepares them for more advanced or specialized statistical modeling. Web Resource The book is accompanied by an R package (rethinking) that is available on the author’s website and GitHub. The two core functions (map and map2stan) of this package allow a variety of statistical models to be constructed from standard model formulas.
Download or read book History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia written by John Davison Sutton and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hard Times written by Studs Terkel and published by New Press/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good War: A masterpiece of modern journalism and “a huge anthem in praise of the American spirit” (Saturday Review). In this “invaluable record” of one of the most dramatic periods in modern American history, Studs Terkel recaptures the Great Depression of the 1930s in all its complexity. Featuring a mosaic of memories from politicians, businessmen, artists, striking workers, and Okies, from those who were just kids to those who remember losing a fortune, Hard Times is not only a gold mine of information but a fascinating interplay of memory and fact, revealing how the 1929 stock market crash and its repercussions radically changed the lives of a generation. The voices that speak from the pages of this unique book are as timeless as the lessons they impart (The New York Times). “Hard Times doesn’t ‘render’ the time of the depression—it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories.” —Arthur Miller “Wonderful! The American memory, the American way, the American voice. It will resurrect your faith in all of us to read this book.” —Newsweek “Open Studs Terkel’s book to almost any page and rich memories spill out . . . Read a page, any page. Then try to stop.” —The National Observer
Download or read book Native Orchids of the Southern Appalachian Mountains written by Stanley L. Bentley and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide showcases the unmatched beauty and diversity of the native orchids of the southern Appalachian mountains. Based on Stanley Bentley's many years of nature study, it covers the 52 species--including one discovered by Bentley and named after him--found in a region encompassing western Virginia and North Carolina and eastern West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The entry for each orchid provides the plant's scientific and common names, a description of the flower (including color, shape, and size), and information on the time of flowering, range, and typical habitat, all in the context of the southern mountains. A range map accompanies each description, and Bentley's own superb photographs are an additional aid to identification. Using straightforward language yet incorporating the most up-to-date scientific information and nomenclature, the book will be welcomed by amateur naturalists or professional botanists looking for species in the field and by those who simply enjoy photographs of beautiful wildflowers.
Download or read book The Fingerprint written by U. S. Department Justice and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of The Fingerprint Sourcebook originated during a meeting in April 2002. Individuals representing the fingerprint, academic, and scientific communities met in Chicago, Illinois, for a day and a half to discuss the state of fingerprint identification with a view toward the challenges raised by Daubert issues. The meeting was a joint project between the International Association for Identification (IAI) and West Virginia University (WVU). One recommendation that came out of that meeting was a suggestion to create a sourcebook for friction ridge examiners, that is, a single source of researched information regarding the subject. This sourcebook would provide educational, training, and research information for the international scientific community.
