Author: Malcolm Lightner
Publisher: powerHouse Books
ISBN: 9781576877944
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A native Floridian, photographer Malcolm's first monograph,Mile O' Mud, shows us his home's beauty; scarred and raw, surrounded by lush blue sky and restorative greens and we witness a community unapologetically celebrating their colorful and unique history, full of wild abandon and enjoying every minute of it. Churning the buttery muddy water at the Florida Sports Park, the swamp buggy races keep Florida's frontier heritage alive. A bastard child to NASCAR, these custom buggies (part boat, part dragster) tear through terrain more like the lake in the center of Daytona International Speedway than the track surrounding it. The Jeep class is designed to slog through with the driver's head barely above water and the Pro-modified built exclusively for speed as they hit 75mph and dwarfed by their own four-foot wheels. Fans pile meat in baking pans and cans of Budweiser in boxes and stack themselves in bleachers, truck beds, and on top of home-made platforms to cheer for the Swamp Buggy Queen and pray for drivers' quick recoveries when the track proves too treacherous. Malcolm Lightner grew up down the street from the original "Mile O' Mud" swamp buggy track off of Radio Road. After moving to New York in 1999, he returned at least once a year from 2002 to 2013 to document the races--missing only 2005 due to a hurricane forced cancellation.
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Category : Aids to navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Author: United States. Bureau of Fisheries
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Category : Hydrography
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Author: Thérèse Yelverton (Viscountess Avonmore)
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Category : East (Far East)
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Author: April Graney
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
ISBN: 1462740995
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 33
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When an American family visits a marvelous mud house in Kenya, they learn a wonderful lesson about true contentment, faith, and joy.
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Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Alexander Hume Ford
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Category : Hawaii
Languages : en
Pages : 610
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Author: Indiana
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Languages : en
Pages : 3448
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Author: Carol Dawson
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 421
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On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
Author: Sylvia Nickels
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ISBN: 9780979922213
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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