Author: Centre County Historical Society (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887315098
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Published periodically by the Society; the serial discontinued publishing after November 1957 and began again October 1967.
Centre County Heritage 1976-1985
Author: Centre County Historical Society (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887315098
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Published periodically by the Society; the serial discontinued publishing after November 1957 and began again October 1967.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781887315098
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Published periodically by the Society; the serial discontinued publishing after November 1957 and began again October 1967.
Genealogical & Local History Books in Print
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ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
The American Census Handbook
Author: Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780842029254
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
Housing and Planning References
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Subject Guide to Books in Print
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3054
Book Description
The Cedar Choppers
Author: Ken Roberts
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623496071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridge for a leisurely afternoon of fishing, he suddenly found himself facing a group of boys who clearly came from a different place and culture than the middle-class, suburban community he was accustomed to. Rather, “. . . they looked hard—tanned, skinny, dirty. These were not kids you would see in Austin.” When Roberts’s fishing companion curtly refused the strangers’ offer to sell them a stringer of bluegills, the three boys went away, only to reappear moments later, one of them carrying a club. Roberts and his friend made a hasty retreat. This encounter provoked in the author the question, “Who are these people?” The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing is his thoughtful, entertaining, and informative answer. Based on oral history interviews with several generations of cedar choppers and those who knew them, this book weaves together the lively, gritty story of these largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-nineteenth century, subsisting mainly on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early twentieth century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal. The emergence of Austin as a major metropolitan area, especially after the 1950s, soon brought the cedar choppers and their hillbilly lifestyle into direct confrontation with the gentrified urban population east of the Balcones Fault. This clash of cultures, which provided the setting for Roberts’s encounter as a young boy, propels this first book-length treatment of the cedar choppers, their clans, their culture and mores, and their longing for a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623496071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridge for a leisurely afternoon of fishing, he suddenly found himself facing a group of boys who clearly came from a different place and culture than the middle-class, suburban community he was accustomed to. Rather, “. . . they looked hard—tanned, skinny, dirty. These were not kids you would see in Austin.” When Roberts’s fishing companion curtly refused the strangers’ offer to sell them a stringer of bluegills, the three boys went away, only to reappear moments later, one of them carrying a club. Roberts and his friend made a hasty retreat. This encounter provoked in the author the question, “Who are these people?” The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing is his thoughtful, entertaining, and informative answer. Based on oral history interviews with several generations of cedar choppers and those who knew them, this book weaves together the lively, gritty story of these largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-nineteenth century, subsisting mainly on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early twentieth century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal. The emergence of Austin as a major metropolitan area, especially after the 1950s, soon brought the cedar choppers and their hillbilly lifestyle into direct confrontation with the gentrified urban population east of the Balcones Fault. This clash of cultures, which provided the setting for Roberts’s encounter as a young boy, propels this first book-length treatment of the cedar choppers, their clans, their culture and mores, and their longing for a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
Genealogies Cataloged by the Library of Congress Since 1986
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, Cataloging Distribution Service
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 1368
Book Description
The bibliographic holdings of family histories at the Library of Congress. Entries are arranged alphabetically of the works of those involved in Genealogy and also items available through the Library of Congress.
Wisconsin's Historic Courthouses
Author: Marv Balousek
Publisher: Badger Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781878569561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Courthouses in Wisconsin pictures and stories. Ancient and new buildings.
Publisher: Badger Books Inc.
ISBN: 9781878569561
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Courthouses in Wisconsin pictures and stories. Ancient and new buildings.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
PA-322 (Section B01) Transportation Corridor, Improvements from PA-655 to Mt. Pleasant, Mifflin County
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description