Car Bombs to Cookie Tables

Car Bombs to Cookie Tables PDF Author: Jacqueline Marino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948742672
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
This book is for the people of Youngstown, past, present and future. It is for their parents and their parents' parents, for their children and their children's children, but mostly it is for them. This book is an examination of memory and conscience, sometimes a celebration, always a mirror. From hard hats to cookie tables, black lungs to football glory, the valley of our pasts lives in these pages. My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down. It is the only way through.

Car Bombs to Cookie Tables

Car Bombs to Cookie Tables PDF Author: Jacqueline Marino
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948742672
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
This book is for the people of Youngstown, past, present and future. It is for their parents and their parents' parents, for their children and their children's children, but mostly it is for them. This book is an examination of memory and conscience, sometimes a celebration, always a mirror. From hard hats to cookie tables, black lungs to football glory, the valley of our pasts lives in these pages. My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down. It is the only way through.

Car Bombs to Cookie Tables

Car Bombs to Cookie Tables PDF Author: Jacqueline Marino
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0997774223
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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An essay collection that delves into the untold stories of this historic Rust Belt city. The story of Youngstown, Ohio, often begins with iron and steel and ends in decay driven by postindustrial economics, violent mobsters, and corrupt politicians. This collection of essays aims to provide a more complete picture of one of the Rust Belt’s former steel industry strongholds through diverse, personal perspectives. More than a look at Youngstown’s industrial past or its issues with crime, this anthology explores Youngstown experiences from the Baby Doll Dances of Lowellville to the punk rock scene of the 1980s and 90s, and from the joys of Brier Hill pizza to the contemporary life of B&O Railroad. Through evocative personal essays by writers including Christopher Barzak, Rochelle Hurt, Eric Murphy, and others, readers gain a sense of the Mahoning Valley’s past, present, and future.

The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook

The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook PDF Author: Bonnie Tawse
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1953368425
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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A compendium of traditional midwestern cookies “along with the poignant and heartwarming stories behind each recipe” (Mary Bilyeu, Toledo Blade). The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook celebrates the tradition of the cookie table with forty-one classic recipes from authentic Mahoning Valley cookie tables and cooks. What’s a cookie table? Funny you should ask! The cookie table is a tradition beloved by residents of Youngstown, Pittsburgh, and parts in between. It has its roots in a time when wedding cakes were far too dear for newly arrived immigrants to purchase. Instead, family and friends showed their love for a bride and groom by baking from scratch hundreds (sometimes thousands) of cookies and other small sweet treats to be shared at the reception. The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook is an international baking guide, including cookies from different cultures, cookies with different textures, spices, shapes, and backstories. Simple cookies, ridiculously indulgent cookies, experimental cookies―they’re all here. And most of all it shares the tradition of the cookie table, a heartfelt way of building community that has endured through generations. In the tradition of the community cookbook, The Belt Cookie Table Cookbook is a must for any kitchen large or small, and a great gift for bakers and home cooks.

Cookie Table, The

Cookie Table, The PDF Author: Alice Crosetto
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467153060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Book Description
All you need is love and cookies. Everyone loves cookies, but the people of the Steel Valley take this love to another level. Nowhere else in America will you behold hundreds--or even thousands--of cookies piled high for events of all kinds. This is the regionally famous cookie table. But how did this tradition start? Why do residents of the Pittsburgh and Youngstown areas always create them not just for weddings but for birthdays, graduations, fundraisers, community events, and so much more? How did this once quaint local custom become a social media phenomenon? How are the cookies made, and how is a cookie table organized? Join author and cookie table enthusiast Alice Crosetto on a delectable journey through this beloved Steel Valley tradition.

Lost Youngstown

Lost Youngstown PDF Author: Sean T. Posey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1626198322
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
The massive steel mills of Youngstown once fueled the economic boom of the Mahoning Valley. Movie patrons took in the latest flick at the ornate Paramount Theater, and mob bosses dressed to the nines for supper at the Colonial House. In 1977, the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company announced the closure of its steelworks in a nearby city. The fallout of the ensuing mill shutdowns erased many of the city's beloved landmarks and neighborhoods. Students hurrying across a crowded campus tread on the foundations of the Elms Ballroom, where Duke Ellington once brought down the house. On the lower eastside, only broken buildings and the long-silent stacks of Republic Rubber remain. Urban explorer and historian Sean T. Posey navigates a disappearing cityscape to reveal a lost era of Youngstown.

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization

The Half-Life of Deindustrialization PDF Author: Sherry Lee Linkon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047212370X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Book Description
Starting in the late 1970s, tens of thousands of American industrial workers lost jobs in factories and mines. Deindustrialization had dramatic effects on those workers and their communities, but its longterm effects continue to ripple through working-class culture. Economic restructuring changed the experience of work, disrupted people’s sense of self, reshaped local landscapes, and redefined community identities and expectations. Through it all, working-class writers have told stories that reflect the importance of memory and the struggle to imagine a different future. These stories make clear that the social costs of deindustrialization affect not only those who lost their jobs but also their children, their communities, and American culture. Through analysis of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, film, and drama, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization shows why people and communities cannot simply “get over” the losses of economic restructuring. The past provides inspiration and strength for working-class people, even as the contrast between past and present highlights what has been lost in the service economy. The memory of productive labor and stable, proud working-class communities shapes how people respond to contemporary economic, social, and political issues. These stories can help us understand the resentment, frustration, pride, and persistence of the American working class.

Rust Belt Chicago

Rust Belt Chicago PDF Author: Martha Bayne
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 099777438X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 333

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Book Description
“A lively grab bag of essays, fiction and poetry that reads at times like a who’s who of contemporary Chicago writers/residents”(Chicago Tribune). Chicago is a city built on meat, railroads, and steel, on opportunity and exploitation. But its identity has long involved so much more than manufacturing. Today, the city continues to lure new residents from around the world, and from across a region rocked by recession and deindustrialization. Rust Belt Chicago collects essays, fiction, and poetry from more than fifty writers who speak directly to the concerns the city shares with the Midwest at large, and the elements that set it apart. With contributions from writers like Aleksandar Hemon, Kathleen Rooney, and Zoe Zolbrod, here you’ll find stories about: Buying Bread on Devon Street The Cantinas of Pilsen Bike commutes through the North Side Adventures on the El. Writing with affection, frustration, anger, and joy, the writers in this collection capture all the harmony and dissonance that define one cacophonous place.

Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers

Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers PDF Author: Jennifer Vanderpool
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031548809
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 227

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The Akron Anthology

The Akron Anthology PDF Author: Jason Segedy
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0997774312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Book Description
A part of Belt's City Anthology Series, this collection explores Akron, Ohio's past and what may happen there in the future. A portrait of the "city's rich, mysterious, odd-leaning inner life." Between 1910

Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook

Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook PDF Author: The Staff of Belt Magazine
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0996836764
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Book Description
Explore Cleveland’s peculiar charms and local history with the least practical, most literary guide to the city. This book is for those who want to understand what radiates away from Terminal Tower, and who understand that as lovely as Cleveland often is, it can sometimes be brutal, too. Authors draw on their own experiences to write about places no longer here, such as the Little Italy Historical Museum and League Park, as well as increasingly popular areas, such as North Collinwood and Asiatown. You will learn about Cleveland Heights’s natural history, Mount Pleasant back in the day, and Opportunity Corridors missed. The contributors tell personal stories about starting a business in Ohio City, marketing Larchmere, first time home buying in Detroit Shoreway, self-loathing in South Euclid, troubling developments in Tremont, closed schools in Lee-Miles, and a vineyard in Hough. Bound together, they conjure a Cleveland as complex as its residents.