Download or read book Norumbega Park and Totem Pole Ballroom written by Clara Silverstein and published by Images of America. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Norumbega Park and Totem Pole Ballroom written by Clara Silverstein and published by Arcadia Pub (Sc). This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the early part of the 20th century, Norumbega Park in Newton, Massachusetts, was the ultimate destination for thrill-seekers and fun-lovers. For 66 years, the park by the Charles River defined recreation and romance. Located 12 miles west of Boston, Norumbega Park was designed to attract weekend ridership to the Commonwealth Avenue Street Railway trolley line. The park succeeded beyond what anyone imagined. From its grand opening in 1897 until the gates closed forever on Labor Day in 1963, the legendary park drew visitors from New England and beyond for family-friendly fun. Its attractions included canoeing, amusement rides, vaudeville shows, and a zoo, all in a carefully landscaped setting. Starting in 1930, the Totem Pole Ballroom, once called America's most beautiful ballroom, presented nationally renowned bands led by musicians including Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, and Artie Shaw.
Download or read book New England Soup Factory Cookbook written by Marjorie Druker and published by Harper Celebrate. This book was released on 2007-09-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New England Soup Factory soups are like no other soups, and now you can recreate them in your own home. Soups will no longer be the appetizers or side dishes thanks to the delicious and easy-to-follow recipes found in the New England Soup Factory Cookbook. With more than 100+ of the best soup recipes Boston has to offer accompanied by fun stories and beautiful full-color photography, get ready to delight all your friends at your next gathering. The collection of soups in the New England Soup Factory Cookbook are both scrumptious and versatile to all occasions. The New England Soup Factory is the legendary Boston-based restaurant offering a mix of soups, salads, and sandwiches so good that it claimed the Best of Boston award four times. Owner Marjorie Druker gives you access to all the ingredients, recipes, and cooking methods that put the New England Soup Factory on the map. The New England Soup Factory Cookbook contains 100+ of Boston's best-tasting traditional and creative soup recipes such as... New England Clam Chowder Wild Mushroom and Barley Soup Curried Crab and Coconut Soup Raspberry-Nectarine Gazpacho Cucumber-Buttermilk Soup The New England Soup Factory Cookbook also offers recipes perfect for... Holiday parties and family dinners Church potlucks and school get-togethers Work picnics and lunches Tailgating, Super Bowl parties, and any sports event Fall evenings and summer nights Cookouts and pool parties 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Easter, and Christmas This cookbook is the ideal Christmas or birthday gift for any chef regardless of experience. Don't forget to consider it while you plan your next Thanksgiving or Easter family meal.
Download or read book White Girl written by Clara Silverstein and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman’s memoir of coming of age while being bused to largely black schools after a Virginia legal battle forced integration in the 1970s. This poignant account recalls firsthand the upheaval surrounding court-ordered busing in the early 1970s to achieve school integration. As a white student sent to predominantly black schools in Richmond, Virginia, Clara Silverstein tells a story that pulls us into the forefront of this great social experiment. At school, she dealt daily with the unintended, unforeseen consequences of busing as she also negotiated the typical passions and concerns of young adulthood—all with little direction from her elders, who seemed just as bewildered by the changes around them. Inspired by her parents’ ideals, Silverstein remained in the public schools despite the emotional stakes. Her achingly honest story, woven with historical details, confronts us with powerful questions about race and the use of our schools to engineer social change. “At once a vivid description of a controversial social experiment, an intimate chronicle of a girl’s turbulent journey through adolescence, and a loving tribute to a visionary father who died too young.”—James S. Hirsch, author of Two Souls Indivisible “In White Girl, Clara Silverstein has written an honest, balanced, and deeply personal memoir. With lively prose she describes what it felt like to be perceived as “the enemy” and explains all the inherent contradictions in her own coming of age.”—Robert Pratt, author of We Shall Not Be Moved: The Desegregation of the University of Georgia “It’s easy to feel Silverstein’s anguish, but her message is that positive social change is possible.”—Library Journal
Download or read book Spruce Wind s Song written by Ivan Hunter and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spruce Wind's Song is a collection of poems by Ivan Norton Hunter, who grew up in Richwood, West Virginia. Each poem is accompanied by a photograph, taken by award-winning photographer Melvin Hartley, expressive of the poem's meaning and imagery. The poems focus on places in an around his hometown in eastern West Virginia. Each represents a unique combination of language, imagery, rhythm and emotion around such themes as lost loves, childhood experiences and the mystical connection between past and present.
Download or read book Willowbrook Ballroom written by Bonnie Classen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Willowbrook Ballroom was originally built as an outdoor dance pavilion named Oh Henry Park by Austrian immigrant John Verderbar. Wildly successful, it was enlarged and fully enclosed in 1923, and a 10¢-a-dance policy was implemented. Destroyed by fire in 1930, a determined Verderbar hired a crew of 200 carpenters, and a new facility was built to the tune of a then-staggering $100,000. In 1959, it was renamed the Willowbrook Ballroom, and dancers have since enjoyed the big band sounds of Count Basie, Teddy Lee, Harry James, and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. As record crowds flocked to the 6,000-square-foot dance floor, the Willowbrook also became a favorite setting for weddings, proms, and other once-in-a-lifetime events. Today, at the height of its popularity, the Willowbrook is one of only five ballrooms of its magnitude in the United States and the only one remaining in the greater Chicagoland area.
Download or read book Boston written by Edwin Monroe Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Blood of San Gennaro written by Scott Harney and published by . This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having kept his writing all but secret for 40 years, Scott Harney has left behind an astounding gift to discover in his posthumous collection, The Blood of San Gennaro. One of Robert Lowell's last students, Harney's voice sings steady and true, with unforgettable wisdom and humor. From the complex streets of his youth in Charlestown, Massachusetts, to the intimate scenes set in his adopted city of Naples, Italy, the people and places in these poems feel so close that you could reach out and touch them. Lovingly collected and edited by his classmate, partner, and Pulitzer Prize winning biographer Megan Marshall, The Blood of San Gennaro will leave you wondering how such a polished gem remained hidden for so long.
Download or read book Reflections in Bullough s Pond written by Diana Karter Appelbaum and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic story of the interplay between environment and economy in New England.
Download or read book Russia in Revolution written by Stephen Anthony Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russia in Revolution gives a full account of the Russian empire from the last years of the nineteenth century, through revolution and civil war, to the brutal collectivization and crash industrialization under Stalin in the late 1920s
Download or read book The Big Book of Car Culture written by Jim Hinckley and published by Motorbooks International. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the powerful, rhythmic sounds of Aboriginal English and Kokatha language woven through the narrative, Mazin Grace is the inspirational story of a feisty girl who refuses to be told who she is, determined to uncover the truth for herself. Growing up on the Mission isn’t easy for clever Grace Oldman. When her classmates tease her for not having a father, she doesn’t know what to say. Pappa Neddy says her dad is the Lord God in Heaven, but that doesn’t help when the Mission kids call her a bastard. As Grace slowly pieces together clues that might lead to answers, she struggles to find a place in a community that rejects her for reasons she doesn’t understand. In this novel, author Dylan Coleman fictionalizes her mother’s childhood at the Koonibba Lutheran Mission in South Australia in the 1940s and 1950s.
Download or read book The Memory Bank written by Jack Orth and published by Bookstand Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MEMORY BANK A collection of short stories drawn from the Memory Bank of Jack Orth, born in 1931. Unlike the financial institutions we're all familiar with, the Memory Bank is open 24/7. Even when you're sound asleep you can make a withdrawal in the form of a dream. There are no minimum balances required. The interest rate never takes a hit, and it always remains at a high level. As a matter of fact, the older you get, the more valuable your deposits become as you can rely on them to bring a smile to your heart and a tear of happiness to your eyes. It's also a bank where you can make a withdrawal, but it's only a carbon copy. Years later the original is still in your account for future reference! You'll surely relate to some of the withdrawals in this book, and maybe head to your own Memory Bank to verify the fact that your memories are still there! Enjoy the time you spend in Jack's Memory Bank...and in your own.
Download or read book Vignettes written by Paul Lee and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vignettes: Musings and Reminiscences of a Modern Renaissance Man is a remarkable series of recollections from a man whose experiences cover an extraordinary range of places, people, and interests. Eschewing the formulaic conventions of autobiography, Vignettes moves back and forth across time and space to describe in vivid detail events and observations from a fascinating life. Its subject matter reflects the acute perceptions of a man for whom every day is a new adventure and a fresh opportunity to learn.
Download or read book Strands of Memory Epilogue written by William R. Tracey, Ed.D. and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strands of Memory--Epilogue is a collection of sweet and bittersweet memories that reveals the author's successes and failures, dreams and fantasies, strengths and weaknesses. It tells stories and draws word pictures celebrating life in more than two hundred poems. The author shares thoughts and feelings about his experiences over a period of more than ninety years. It commemorates people in his life, especially family and friends, and their loves, friendships, courage, challenges, and strengths. It talks about love, family, friendships, work, war, nature, life, and death. This collection also sings the songs of his life and describes his joys and sorrows. It chronicles incidents, events, and the things that have troubled, hurt, and pleased the author, his family, and his friends. His hope is that the events, poetry, love, family, friendship, and situations described in both rhyme and free verse include many to which readers will readily relate because they have shared similar experiences--in short, that the poems will touch readers' hearts, minds, and souls.
Download or read book Our Final Salute written by Jay Schofield and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction A Trip to Canada September 3, 1944 On the above date, two brothers, Jay and Win Schofield, briefly crossed the Canadian border from New York to gather a few documents then return to America. Why? Each needed naturalized citizen status to join the U. S. Army. Jay, at twenty-five, and Win ten years older, were both drafted and eager to serve their country in what would be World War II. Two other brothers, Llew and Brent, had already become eligible. The required documentation for Jay and Win were requisites to prove they were born in the province of Nova Scotia, Canada, some twenty years earlier. It would have been a simple matter of simply asking for their respective birth certificates, getting sworn in, and packing for boot camp. It got complicated. In Halifax, there had been a fire around the time of their family’s migration to America destroying their birth records. Jay and Win got their desired status and entered the military. My Life Went On That story was related to me back in the 1950s but, in typical fashion of a self-absorbed teen rebel, I saw little value in the story. Like most boys that age, my immediate focal points were “What’s for supper?” or “Did the Red Sox win last night?” or “Who’ll be my date for Friday’s record hop?” I mean “Really ... that war happened when I was a few months old, What value could it have to me?” How wrong I was. The years went by including college, marriage, family, and work. Buried in the background of my thinking, lingered the question about the brothers’ Canadian visit and what changes the family had undergone before and after that point. It became even more of a topic considering today’s America’s red-hot immigration issue with the Mexican border. What would compel family members back then to fight for their adopted country? Today, Canada has become America’s “forgotten” northern border while our southern Mexican border captures most of the national interest. We hear of both electronic and structural fences, our National Guard’s involvement, a drug war with Mexican cartels, and wanton illegal crossings bringing murders of America’s border states’ citizens. Regrets? For Sure! In 1980, the urgency to ask my dad family questions became more critical following his cancer diagnosis. Hoping to make up for lost time I suggested, nine years later, I write his life story. An endless barrage of questions while he was undergoing the ravages of invasive cancer treatment would prove tiresome. Despite repeated chemical invasions, he persevered. For the first time, I witnessed him crying as he related his mother’s undying dedication while she helped him memorize his lines before his high school performance, The Mikado. Even today, I can hear my dad’s tears on that tape, as he confirmed he “never missed a line.” Dad shared his family’s work ethic: getting to the job despite sickness or hard times. They toiled at multiple, often menial, jobs providing for their four sons and daughter. He spoke lovingly of his parents including his dad dying in 1951 and then losing his mom nine years later. Those tapes provided me long-lasting insights and inspiration. I learned elders are eager to share their lives if someone asked the right questions. Thrilled to tip over that first domino, I knew the interviews had built his story’s foundation. Although he was a rookie at dying; I was a rookie at writing; yet we both persisted like veterans. In a few months, his life story formed. I transcribed the interview, did parallel research, and crafted his memoirs the best an emerging author could. The process and the result brought us unparalleled joy. Upon completion, he read, and re-read, the story then gushed on about how much he appreciated my effort. He died knowing his life story would be saved and passed down. Infected with a “Memoirs / Schofield history” bug, I vowed to carry on. Filling In Some Blanks The family questions, however, gnawed at me. I wanted
Download or read book History of Newton Massachusetts written by Samuel Francis Smith and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Where Newton Began written by Thelma Fleishman and published by . This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Where Newton Began: A Guide to the East Parish Burying Ground" provides information on the East Parish Buring Ground, Newton, Massachusetts oldest municipal cemetary. The publiciation provides maps of the burying ground, geneological infomation on individuals buried there, and a history of the early residents of Newton.
