Download or read book A Modest Homestead written by Laurie J. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copublished with the Utah State Historical Society. Affiliated with the Utah Division of State History, Utah Department of Heritage & Arts. Stories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing on men and women in positions of power and influence, the emphasis here is on the lives of people who built their sturdy, simple homes from mud. A Modest Homestead provides architectural descriptions of ninety-four extant adobe houses. These homes are for the most part unremarkable, except for their perhaps unexpected construction material. They are as basic as the people who built them--small tradesmen and farmers, laborers and domestics. Author Laurie Bryant discusses the neighborhoods in Salt Lake City where adobe houses have survived, often much renovated and disguised, and she showcases the houses not just as they appear today but as they were originally built. Almost all the houses now have additions and improvements, and without some dissection, they are not always recognizable. They now appear both comfortable and pleasant, which was not always the case in the nineteenth century. What emerges through closer examination and Bryant's research is a fuller picture of the roughhewn life of many early Utahns.
Download or read book A Skeptic s Guide to Writers Houses written by Anne Trubek and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are many ways to show our devotion to an author besides reading his or her works. Graves make for popular pilgrimage sites, but far more popular are writers' house museums. What is it we hope to accomplish by trekking to the home of a dead author? We may go in search of the point of inspiration, eager to stand on the very spot where our favorite literary characters first came to life—and find ourselves instead in the house where the author himself was conceived, or where she drew her last breath. Perhaps it is a place through which our writer passed only briefly, or maybe it really was a longtime home—now thoroughly remade as a decorator's show-house. In A Skeptic's Guide to Writers' Houses Anne Trubek takes a vexed, often funny, and always thoughtful tour of a goodly number of house museums across the nation. In Key West she visits the shamelessly ersatz shrine to a hard-living Ernest Hemingway, while meditating on his lost Cuban farm and the sterile Idaho house in which he committed suicide. In Hannibal, Missouri, she walks the fuzzy line between fact and fiction, as she visits the home of the young Samuel Clemens—and the purported haunts of Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Injun' Joe. She hits literary pay-dirt in Concord, Massachusetts, the nineteenth-century mecca that gave home to Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau—and yet could not accommodate a surprisingly complex Louisa May Alcott. She takes us along the trail of residences that Edgar Allan Poe left behind in the wake of his many failures and to the burned-out shell of a California house with which Jack London staked his claim on posterity. In Dayton, Ohio, a charismatic guide brings Paul Laurence Dunbar to compelling life for those few visitors willing to listen; in Cleveland, Trubek finds a moving remembrance of Charles Chesnutt in a house that no longer stands. Why is it that we visit writers' houses? Although admittedly skeptical about the stories these buildings tell us about their former inhabitants, Anne Trubek carries us along as she falls at least a little bit in love with each stop on her itinerary and finds in each some truth about literature, history, and contemporary America.
Download or read book The Homestead written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Small House written by Duo Dickinson and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Tree House written by Katherine Eakle and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-09-18 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maisy and Tom Holden and their family have been on the run for months during a hostile government takeover. A sadistic ploy to control the country's most prominent figures and their constituents has been implemented in the form of a deadly vaccine. While government agents proceed to hunt down the unvaccinated, the Holden family discovers and takes sanctuary in a large tree house. In providing aid to other refugees, they unlock the secrets of their new dwelling and realize this massive compound embedded in a network of trees is meant to house the workings of a rebellion. Together they learn the identity of the elusive dictator pulling all the strings and formulate a plan to free the president and his family from tyranny. While exploring on a large scale what can happen when corruption is given free rein, allowing for a pervasive culture of deception and greed, The Tree House also celebrates shared human connection in times of crisis. This fast-paced thriller provides a glimpse into a terrorist-run society, melding crime, mystery, and suspense into one novel you won't want to put down.
Download or read book Small Country Houses of To day written by R. Randal Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Personal Bankruptcy written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Backyard Homestead Guide to Raising Farm Animals written by Gail Damerow and published by Storey Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy a weekend breakfast featuring eggs, bacon, and honey from your own chickens, pigs, and bees, or a holiday meal with your own heritage-breed turkey as the main attraction. Gail Damerow covers everything you need to successfully raise your own farm animals, from selecting the right breeds to producing delicious fresh milk, cheese, honey, eggs, and meat. Even with just a small plot of land, you can become more self-sufficient, save money, and enjoy healthy, delicious animal products. Also available in this series: The Backyard Homestead, The Backyard Homestead Book of Building Projects, The Backyard Homestead Seasonal Planner, and The Backyard Homestead Book of Kitchen Know-How.
Download or read book Small Country Houses of To day written by Lawrence Weaver and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Analysis of the Social Security System Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Colonial Revival Maine written by Kevin Murphy and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Revival Maine provides an account of how this interest in the classical influences of colonial- and federal-era buildings engaged the imagination of a group of architects and their draftsmen in the late nineteenth century. Together, these designers created the charming streetscapes and bucolic retreats that today dot the Maine coast."
Download or read book Background and history of urban homesteading Demonstration program descriptions written by Urban Systems Research & Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alaska Homesteader s Handbook written by Tricia Brown and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alaska Homesteader’s Handbook is a remarkable compilation of practical information for living in one of the most impractical and inhostpitable landscapes in the United States. More than forty pioneer types ranging from their mid-nineties to mid-twenties describe their reasons for choosing to live their lives on Alaska and offer useful instructions and advice that made that life more livable. Whether it’s how to live among bears, build an outhouse, cross a river, or make birch syrup, each story gives readers a window to a life most will never know but many still dream about. Dozens of photographs and more than 100 line drawings illustrate the real-life experiences of Alaska settlers such as 1930s New Deal colonists, demobilized military who stayed after World War II, dream seekers from the ’60s and ’70s, and myriad others who staked their claim in Alaska.
Download or read book House of Hits written by Andy Bradley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in a working-class neighborhood in southeast Houston in 1941, Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios is a major independent studio that has produced a multitude of influential hit records in an astonishingly diverse range of genres. Its roster of recorded musicians includes Lightnin' Hopkins, George Jones, Willie Nelson, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Junior Parker, Clifton Chenier, Sir Douglas Quintet, 13th Floor Elevators, Freddy Fender, Kinky Friedman, Ray Benson, Guy Clark, Lucinda Williams, Beyoncé and Destiny's Child, and many, many more. In House of Hits, Andy Bradley and Roger Wood chronicle the fascinating history of Gold Star/SugarHill, telling a story that effectively covers the postwar popular music industry. They describe how Houston's lack of zoning ordinances allowed founder Bill Quinn's house studio to grow into a large studio complex, just as SugarHill's willingness to transcend musical boundaries transformed it into of one of the most storied recording enterprises in America. The authors offer behind-the-scenes accounts of numerous hit recordings, spiced with anecdotes from studio insiders and musicians who recorded at SugarHill. Bradley and Wood also place significant emphasis on the role of technology in shaping the music and the evolution of the music business. They include in-depth biographies of regional stars and analysis of the various styles of music they represent, as well as a list of all of Gold Star/SugarHill's recordings that made the Billboard charts and extensive selected historical discographies of the studio's recordings.
Download or read book Homestead a Family History of Leon R Hunt and Beth Carroll written by Douglas Allen Hunt and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The genealogy of Leon R. Hunt and Beth Carroll including the surnames of Hunt, Miller, Carroll and Chamberlain with an historical summary of these families.
Download or read book US 95 Garwood to Sagle Kootenai and Bonner Counties written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
