Author: Hauprich
Publisher: Legacies Unlimited LLC
ISBN: 0578851881
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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What was originally conceived as the Ballston Spa Living 2020 Community Yearbook has been expanded to include bonus content about life as it was unfolding in an upstate New York village against the unprecedented backdrop of a coronavirus pandemic. True to its reimagined title, the literary keepsake showcases a treasure trove of stories and photos that celebrate the indomitable Spirit of Ballston Spa as villagers transitioned to the masked, social distancing era. Innovative plans for fostering renewed vitality, future growth and prosperity in the settlement that dates back to 1771 are also found within these covers. Lest we forget the way we were, a special commemorative album additionally includes images of smiling faces interacting at close range with friends, neighbors and tourists at popular multigenerational events in the revitalized downtown before COVID heralded the debut of a New Normal. To learn more about this Legacies Unlimited heritage preservation project, visit BallstonSpaLiving.com.
Author: Theodore Corbett
Publisher: Springer Science & Business
ISBN: 9780813528427
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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What factors create a successful resort? How did the rise of lavish hotels and spas reflect the changing values of American society as the nineteenth century progressed? Historians have argued that resorts were created to meet the demands of a leisured social elite. Theodore Corbett offers a fresh, compelling argument, demonstrating that resorts created and re-created themselves to keep pace with changing times. Success came with anticipating demands, not just reacting to them. Using an impressive variety of historical documents, Corbett focuses on the conditions underlying the rise--and the demise--of the resorts at Ballston Spa and Caldwell on Lake George. Both towns' major landlord-developers saw tourism as only one vehicle that could lead to success. As a result of their divided policies, neither town invested in the proper infrastructure to make tourism an immediate succes. Both places were soon overshadowed by Saratoga Springs, which became the premier resort of the upper and middle class. Due to complex interwoven influences, Saratoga Springs was able to supply the amenities needed to attract and retain the patronage of the well heeled. The town provided visitors with lavish hotels, parks, public squares, pleasure gardens, and convenient service alleys. Saratoga Springs also had a work force that was available for the five-month period per year that the spas were active. Corbett examines the history and participation of various ethnic groups in the resort's service sector: African Americans, Irish, and Native Americans. Corbett also stresses middle-class America's emulation of the leisure habits of the English aristocracy. Even though these pursuits (hunting, fishing, horse racrting) were dominaterd by men, social rituals were dominated by women, and resorts that accommodated "public domesticity" thrived as the century progressed. The Making of American Resorts offers a window into shifting public values and the structure of commercial tourism.
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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Author: Sam McKenzie
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Category : Ballston Spa (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 113
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Author: Lora Lee Ecobelli
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ISBN: 9780983389798
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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A collection of recipes, memories, and stories inspired by the authors' grandmother, Laurina Ecobelli, whose family operated Ecobelli's Tam O'Shanter Inn on Route 50 in Ballston Spa for more than 40 successful years.
Author: Don Freeman
Publisher: Viking Childrens Books
ISBN: 9780670010837
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Earl the squirrel searches for acorns in the autumn in Washington, D.C. Includes author's note about the history of the book.
Author: Don Freeman
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ISBN: 9781430104162
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Languages : en
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Author: Ian Berry
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ISBN: 9780998242217
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Languages : en
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Author: Ruby Silvious
Publisher: Mascot Books
ISBN: 9781631777592
Category : Recycling (Waste, etc.) in art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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363 Days of Tea is a coffee table book by Ruby Silvious. Follow the artist's 363-day journey as she creates miniature paintings using repurposed tea bags as her canvas.
Author: Andrew Bozio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019258572X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Thinking Through Place on the Early Modern English Stage argues that environment and embodied thought continually shaped one another in the performance of early modern English drama. It demonstrates this, first, by establishing how characters think through their surroundings — not only how they orient themselves within unfamiliar or otherwise strange locations, but also how their environs function as the scaffolding for perception, memory, and other forms of embodied thought. It then contends that these moments of thinking through place theorise and thematise the work that playgoers undertook in reimagining the stage as the setting of the dramatic fiction. By tracing the relationship between these two registers of thought in such plays as The Malcontent, Dido Queen of Carthage, Tamburlaine, King Lear, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Bartholomew Fair, this book shows that drama makes visible the often invisible means by which embodied subjects acquire a sense of their surroundings. It also reveals how, in doing so, theatre altered the way that playgoers perceived, experienced, and imagined place in early modern England.
