Download or read book The Mystery of the Ohiopyle Hotel written by Marci Lynn McGuinness and published by Shore Publications. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the state of Pennsylvania enforced eminent domain on the residents and business owners of Ohiopyle to make way for state park, someone burnt the newly remodeled Ohiopyle Hotel to the ground. It was Friday the 13th, 1964. Did the locals get their revenge? McGuinness brings you Detective Aspirin fifty years later, as he looks into the cold case. Was someone trying to kill the new caretakers? Find out in this new short story, the prolific author's favorite genre. The Mystery of the Ohiopyle Hotel is inspired by true events.
Download or read book Vivian the Board Track Boys written by Marci Lynn McGuinness and published by Shore Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vivian Prescott, silent film star, backs the Uniontown Speedway board track hosting Barney Oldfield, the Chevrolet and Duesenberg brothers and Tommy Milton for seven years of fame and fortune until one Speed King runs to Cuba with the money. This story is inspired by McGuinness' twenty two years of research for her books, "Yesteryear at the Uniontown Speedway" and "Speedway Kings of Southwestern Pennsylvania, 100 Years of Racing History." Her screenplay, "Speed Kings" is seeking a producer.
Download or read book Yesteryear in Ohiopyle written by Marci Lynn McGuinness and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yesteryear in Ohiopyle, Volume III, is a pictorial history of the borough of Ohiopyle, Ohiopyle State Park and surrounding communities. Over 200 photographs include falls and scenery, people (many groups), bridges, buildings, and fires. Forty-five pages of Ohiopyle Hotel recipes from Nanny's Kitchen Cookbook are a big bonus in McGuinness' latest regional history book. See Castle Rock and the Meadow Run Cabin dismantling, and Fallingwater being reinforced. McGuinness has done it again with an important collection no local history buff will want to be without. If you have Yesteryear in Ohiopyle, Volumes I and II, this is a must!
Download or read book Nelson s Biographical Dictionary and Historical Reference Book of Fayette County Pennsylvania written by Henry Elliot Shepherd and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Architecture written by Francis D. K. Ching and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-07-16 with total page 1784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A superb visual reference to the principles of architecture Now including interactive CD-ROM! For more than thirty years, the beautifully illustrated Architecture: Form, Space, and Order has been the classic introduction to the basic vocabulary of architectural design. The updated Third Edition features expanded sections on circulation, light, views, and site context, along with new considerations of environmental factors, building codes, and contemporary examples of form, space, and order. This classic visual reference helps both students and practicing architects understand the basic vocabulary of architectural design by examining how form and space are ordered in the built environment.? Using his trademark meticulous drawing, Professor Ching shows the relationship between fundamental elements of architecture through the ages and across cultural boundaries. By looking at these seminal ideas, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order encourages the reader to look critically at the built environment and promotes a more evocative understanding of architecture. In addition to updates to content and many of the illustrations, this new edition includes a companion CD-ROM that brings the book's architectural concepts to life through three-dimensional models and animations created by Professor Ching.
Download or read book Frank Lloyd Wright s Fallingwater written by Donald Hoffmann and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the complicated development of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, including planning, site selection, and construction
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Download or read book A History of Uniontown written by James Hadden and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Wynnes written by Thomas B. Deem and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Wynne (d.1692), a Welsh Quaker, married twice and emigrated from Wales (via England) to Philadelphia in 1682. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and elsewhere. Includes many ancestors in Wales, Ireland and Europe.
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Download or read book Youghiogheny Appalachian River written by Tim Palmer and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1984-09-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the course of the Youghiogheny river from its source in western Maryland to its confluence with the Monongahela near Pittsburgh
Download or read book This Road We Traveled written by Jane Kirkpatrick and published by Revell. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drama, Adventure, and Family Struggles Abound as Three Generations Head West on the Oregon Trail When Tabitha Brown's son makes the fateful decision to leave Missouri and strike out for Oregon, she refuses to be left behind. Despite her son's concerns, Tabitha hires her own wagon to join the party. Along with her reluctant daughter and her ever-hopeful granddaughter, the intrepid Tabitha has her misgivings. But family ties are stronger than fear. The trials they face along the way will severely test Tabitha's faith, courage, and ability to hope. With her family's survival on the line, she must make the ultimate sacrifice, plunging deeper into the wilderness to seek aid. What she couldn't know was how this frightening journey would impact how she understood her own life--and the greater part she had to play in history. With her signature attention to detail and epic style, New York Times bestselling author Jane Kirkpatrick invites readers to travel the deadly and enticing Oregon Trail. Based on actual events, This Road We Traveled will inspire the pioneer in all of us.
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