Author: Jim DuFresne
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898865448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Michigan's state park system is a diverse collection of virgin forests, dramatic sand dunes, and clear lakes. This updated guide offers information on camping, hiking, paddling, cycling, skiing, fishing, and swimming, plus expanded coverage of mountain biking.
Michigan State Parks
Author: Jim DuFresne
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898865448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Michigan's state park system is a diverse collection of virgin forests, dramatic sand dunes, and clear lakes. This updated guide offers information on camping, hiking, paddling, cycling, skiing, fishing, and swimming, plus expanded coverage of mountain biking.
Publisher: Mountaineers Books
ISBN: 9780898865448
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Michigan's state park system is a diverse collection of virgin forests, dramatic sand dunes, and clear lakes. This updated guide offers information on camping, hiking, paddling, cycling, skiing, fishing, and swimming, plus expanded coverage of mountain biking.
Community Recreation
Author: National Recreation Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Community Recreation Services Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
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Category : Federal aid to community development
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Federal aid to community development
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Michigan State and National Parks
Author: Tom Powers
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
ISBN: 9781933272436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Millions of people visit Michigans parks every year. Organized geographically, this key resource shows all the accommodations and activities available at Michigans State and National Parks. Park area maps help visitors find activities while new campground maps help campers choose a site when making reservations. At the beginning of each park description is an at-a-glance reference showing symbols for all the accommodations and activities available. A map on the back cover provides the location of all the parks making it easy to find nearby attractions. For campers with specific interests, a quick-reference appendix lists all the parks, accommodations, and activities on an easy-to-read chart. This is an essential guide for anyone from the curious outdoorsman to the serious camper. This fifth edition includes new and updated campground and park maps.
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press Michigan
ISBN: 9781933272436
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Millions of people visit Michigans parks every year. Organized geographically, this key resource shows all the accommodations and activities available at Michigans State and National Parks. Park area maps help visitors find activities while new campground maps help campers choose a site when making reservations. At the beginning of each park description is an at-a-glance reference showing symbols for all the accommodations and activities available. A map on the back cover provides the location of all the parks making it easy to find nearby attractions. For campers with specific interests, a quick-reference appendix lists all the parks, accommodations, and activities on an easy-to-read chart. This is an essential guide for anyone from the curious outdoorsman to the serious camper. This fifth edition includes new and updated campground and park maps.
Arc of Justice
Author: Kevin Boyle
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1429900164
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
Winner of the National Book Award for Nonfiction An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times.
Development of Community Recreation Programs for People of the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Development of Community Recreation Programs for People of the United States. Hearings Before a Subcommittee.... on S. 2070... May 13 and 27, 1946. (79th Cong., 2d Sess.)
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Michigan's Environment Protection and Recreation Bond Programs
Author: Gail Cutler
Publisher:
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Category : Bond funds
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bond funds
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Youth Centers
Author: United States. Office of Community War Services. Division of Recreation
Publisher:
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Category : Community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Community centers
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Urban Green
Author: Colin Fisher
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619962
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469619962
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.