State Local category: 1635 books
by Bruce D. Heald
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Like the old soda fountain in the center of town or the local drive-in movie theater, diners evoke nostalgia and are a lasting symbol of the American dream. The hallmarks of the diner-good prices, quick service and comforting food in ample portions-create a melting pot of patrons. It is where friends...
Bach for a Hundred Years
A Social History of the Bach Choir of Bethlehem
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This is an account of the actions taken by the residents of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to create a local amateur society singing the music of J. S.Bach and to develop it into a choir of international importance. Singers, instrumentalists, industrialists, academicians, bankers, and churches acted in community...
Haunted Fairhaven
The busy lives of the active dead in the historic Fairhaven district of Bellingham WA
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In "Haunted Fairhaven", local writer Taimi Dunn Gorman, explores the tales of ghostly sightings through the testimonies of current residents and stories of the past. While researching 1890s' newspapers for murders, suicides, strange deaths and other occurrences, she brought in a team of...
Dallas
The Making of a Modern City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the ruthless deals of the Ewing clan on TV's "Dallas" to the impeccable customer service of Neiman-Marcus, doing business has long been the hallmark of Dallas. Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, Dallas business leaders amassed unprecedented political power and civic influence, which...
by Chaplain P. L. Holder
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2011
A book written to inform, remind, comfort and release all who struggle with the events surrounding and the aftermath of 9/11.
Written with a day by day abbreviated history to inform those who were too young or not involved as the events occurred to give a flavor of what our world was...
by Mona Harrington
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
In this major work of historical and political analysis, Mona Harrington examines curcial missteps and uncertainties in the American statecraft from Woodrow Wilson’s time to Ronald Reagan’s, and traces them to a potent myth at the center of our political thinking. It is a myth peculiarly American,...
by Virginia H. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The Franco-Texan Land Company was formed, ostensibly, by the French bondholders of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad in an attempt to salvage their investments through sale of lands in the railroad's Texas land grant. Most of the land company's wealth, however, went into the pockets of unscrupulous...
by John D. Melvin II
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Pensacola, Florida was a postbellum boomtown that offered the promise of prosperity to potential new-comers and long-time residents alike. Pouring A Round Of Pensacola's Past divulges the hidden past of a city steeped in mystery and local lore. From German immigrants to backwoods country folk, Pensacolians...
by Mindy Campbell Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
Collected through firsthand interviews, author Mindy Campbell Hudson brings local lore to life in The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover Tales with stories of Dover, Arkansas's own legends, history, and supernatural tales. Complete with photographs of historical Dover, this collection...
by Robert S. Weddle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, landed on the Texas coast in 1685, bent on founding a French colony, his enterprise was doomed to failure. Not only was he hundreds of miles from his intended landfall—the mouth of the Mississippi—but his supply ship, Aimable, was wrecked at the mouth of...
by Washington Irving
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
This classic text by Washington Irving is a sly satire on self-important local history that brought ''Knickerbocker'' into the American lexicon.
The Alamo Remembered
Tejano Accounts and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
As Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio's Tejano population was caught in the crossfire, both literally and symbolically. Though their origins were in Mexico, the Tejanos had put down lasting roots in Texas and did not automatically...
Toward Mainstreaming and Sustaining Community-Driven Development in Indonesia
Understanding Local Initiatives and the Transition from the National Rural Community Empowerment Program to the Village Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Indonesia has adopted community-driven development as a major strategy for poverty reduction, and replicated the approach nationwide through a number of programs. Over the past few years, the country has formulated a road map for sustaining the systems, procedures, and benefits of community-driven...
The Bottlewasher
Selections from a Small-Town Newspaper Column of the Early 1950S
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2001
Few homemakers worked outside the home while Kay Trainer Reilly was growing up in Wisconsin. When she was 13, her mother accepted a job as a reporter for their local newspaper office. During those pre-feminist years (1951-55), Gretta also wrote a humorous, tongue-in-cheek, weekly column that attracted...