Download or read book Gods in Granite written by Robert L. McGrath and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert L. McGrath leads a tour of New Hampshire's White Mountains through art and illustration spanning three centuries. He surveys—often at an exhilarating pace—the topographic and metaphoric landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains through the artistic and tourist life of the region as it appears in paintings and illustrations. Extending from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century, he includes by far the most extensive collection of pictorial works relating to the White Mountains to date. Although the scenic beauty of the White Mountains attracted many of America's most significant artists during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Thomas Cole, Frank Stella, Winslow Homer, Fernand Leger, John Marin, and Marsden Hartley, no comprehensive account of this region's rich contribution to the history of American art has ever been published.

Download or read book This Grand Magnificent Place written by Christopher Johnson and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping environmental history of a quintessential American wilderness.

Download or read book Sixty Years Memories of Art and Artists written by Benjamin Champney and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book When Women and Mountains Meet written by Julie Boardman and published by Julie Boardman. This book was released on 2001 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Hampshire Scenery written by Catherine H. Campbell and published by Phoenix Pub. This book was released on 1985 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The White Mountains written by Moses Foster Sweetser and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Visions in Granite written by Robert L. McGrath and published by Blue Tree. This book was released on 2006 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The White Mountains, nestled serenely in the middle of New Hampshire, have been inspiring visitors for hundreds of years. A favorite subject of painters from the nineteenth century and an often revisited landmark for today's artists, the majestic beauty of the landscape is captured within the pages of Visions in Granite. This carefully selected collection of paintings takes readers on a tour through the historical and contemporary representations of the White Mountains, showcasing work by some of the most prominent landscape artists of the past two centuries. By pairing the paintings of yesterday and today, Visions in Granite reveals the influence that nineteenth-century painters have had on their contemporary counterparts. While some of today's artists chose to continue a dialogue that began with their predecessors, others have pushed their work into new territory by incorporating the ideas of modernism and abstraction. Visions in Granite is a tribute to a region that has arrested the imagination of many and to the artists who have captured that beauty for others to enjoy.

Download or read book New Hampshire Now written by Gary Samson and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the Farm Security Administration photography documenting life in America during the Great Depression, the New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists and the New Hampshire Historical Society joined forces to undertake a three-year project to photographically record daily life in the state. This book is the result of forty-six photographers covering the seven regions of the Granite State, making thousands of images that create a twenty-first-century portrait of the people, places, culture, and events in New Hampshire. The body of work created not only illustrates this book, but will also be featured in eight exhibitions around the state in the fall of 2021 and archived at the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord, New Hampshire.

Download or read book East Branch Lincoln Railroad written by Erin Paul Donovan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built by James Everell Henry, the East Branch & Lincoln Railroad (EB&L) is considered to be the grandest and largest logging railroad operation ever built in New England. In 1892, the mountain town of Lincoln, New Hampshire, was transformed from a struggling wilderness enclave to a thriving mill town when Henry moved his logging operation from Zealand. He built houses, a company store, sawmills, and a railroad into the East Branch of the Pemigewasset River watershed to harvest virgin spruce. Despite the departure of the last EB&L log train from Lincoln Woods by 1948, the industry's cut-and-run practices forever changed the future of land conservation in the region, prompting legislation like the Weeks Act of 1911 and the Wilderness Act of 1964. Today, nearly every trail in the Pemigewasset Wilderness follows or utilizes portions of the old EB&L Railroad bed.

Download or read book By Good Hands written by Robert M. Doty and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 1989 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Scenery of the White Mountains written by William Oakes and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Summer Cottages in the White Mountains written by Bryant Franklin Tolles and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expert looks at the historic role of summer cottages in New Hampshire's popular White Mountain region.

Download or read book From the Mountains to the Sea written by Kimberly A. Jarvis and published by Environmental History of the N. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of increasing pressures from business and government in the decades following World War II, New Hampshire residents banded together to preserve their most prized natural areas and defining geological features. From the Mountains to the Sea explores how history, memory, and tradition created a strong sense of place in the state that led citizen activists to protect Franconia Notch, Sandwich Notch, and the town of Durham on New Hampshire's seacoast from development in the last half of the twentieth century. These efforts led to the construction of a parkway instead of an interstate highway, prevented the building of an oil refinery, and saved Sandwich Notch from becoming a vacation community. Shaped by New Hampshire's unique conservation focus on both resource use and preservation that developed during the first years of the twentieth century, as well as on the tradition of home rule in the state, the outcome of each campaign relied on the insight into, appreciation for, and dedication to protecting the historic and aesthetic values of these three places.

Download or read book Chasing Eden written by Howard Mansfield and published by Bauhan Pub. This book was released on 2021 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chasing Eden is about seekers, Americans searching for their Eden, longing for a Promised Land, a utopia somewhere out on the horizon--a search that can be found in every era, and gives form and force to our lives in our pursuit of happiness--"the primary occupation of every American."

Download or read book The White Mountains written by University of New Hampshire. University Art Galleries and published by University Press of New England. This book was released on 1980 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The White Mountains written by John T. B. Mudge and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 224 page book identifies more than 200 places in the White Mountains -- streams, mountains, trails & many other locations & traces the history of the region from colonial days to present times. The book also includes reproductions of important photographs of the region. The author is a veteran hiker & long time visitor to the White Mountains who spends as much time as possible up there hiking the mountains that he loves. "And visitors to New Hampshire's mountains can settle arguments by consulting The White Mountains, Names, Places & Legends." Yankee Magazine. "The beauty of the book is that one can opt to read it alphabetically or simply open it anywhere." Northern New Hampshire Magazine. "A little encyclopedia of everything you'd ever want to know about this well-loved mountain range." Summit Magazine.

Download or read book Death in the White Mountains written by Julie Boardman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Death in the White Mountains is about the hikers, climbers, and back-country skiers who have died in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine. The goal in writing this book has been to find out why there has been such an appalling loss of life ... My purpose has not been to blame the victims but to find out what their stories can teach us. It is hoped that by discovering the fatal errors that led to these deaths, the number of mountain tragedies can be reduced."--Introduction.