Author: Sue Eisenfeld
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803265395
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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For fifteen years Sue Eisenfeld hiked in Shenandoah National Park in the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, unaware of the tragic history behind the creation of the park. In this travel narrative, she tells the story of her on-the-ground discovery of the relics and memories a few thousand mountain residents left behind when the government used eminent domain to kick the people off their land to create the park. With historic maps and notes from hikers who explored before her, Eisenfeld and her husband hike, backpack, and bushwhack the hills and the hollows of this beloved but misbegotten place, searching for stories. Descendants recount memories of their ancestors “grieving themselves to death,” and they continue to speak of their people’s displacement from the land as an untold national tragedy. Shenandoah: A Story of Conservation and Betrayal is Eisenfeld’s personal journey into the park’s hidden past based on her off-trail explorations. She describes the turmoil of residents’ removal as well as the human face of the government officials behind the formation of the park. In this conflict between conservation for the benefit of a nation and private land ownership, she explores her own complicated personal relationship with the park—a relationship she would not have without the heartbreak of the thousands of people removed from their homes. Purchase the audio edition.
Author: Darwin Lambert
Publisher: Roberts Rinehart
ISBN: 1461663989
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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A history of this national park written in conjunction with its 50th anniversary.
Author: Carolyn Reeder
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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Author: Harry W. Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Author: T. Davis Bunn
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
ISBN: 1418509213
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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An eccentric old man is dying of cancer, and his painfully proud daughter must ask an embittered doctor for help. In this moving story of sacrifice, sorrow, and redemption, a quiet town in the Shenandoah Valley and the powerful city of Washington D.C. become the settings for a story of personal healing and renewed faith. Written by a beloved and best-selling author, One Shenandoah Winter is a heart-touching novella that reveals the true meaning of Christmas.
Author: Peter Cozzens
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN: 0807898473
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has heretofore been related only from the Confederate point of view. Moving seamlessly between tactical details and analysis of strategic significance, Peter Cozzens presents a balanced, comprehensive account of a campaign that has long been romanticized but little understood. He offers new interpretations of the campaign and the reasons for Stonewall Jackson's success, demonstrates instances in which the mythology that has come to shroud the campaign has masked errors on Jackson's part, and provides the first detailed appraisal of Union leadership in the Valley Campaign, with some surprising conclusions.
Author: John Walter Wayland
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806380117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Reprint of the 2d, augm. ed., 1969, published by Shenandoah Pub. House, Strasburg, Va.
Author: Robert C. Gildart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1493016857
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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Completely updated, this edition provides detailed descriptions and maps of the best hikes in the park. From easy day hikes to strenuous backpacking trips, this guide will provide readers with all the latest information they need to plan virtually any type of hiking adventure in the park.
Author: George F. Pollock
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN: 1789125596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
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First published in 1960, this is the autobiography of George Freeman Pollock, a young Washington, D.C. man who in 1895 founded, built and managed the Skyland Resort, originally called Stony Man Camp, in Virginia. “The Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, separating the eastern or Piedmont and Tidewater sections from the Shenandoah Valley, commence at the south side of the gap at Harper’s Ferry. Thence, stretching out in a southwestwardly direction, they become substantially higher near Front Royal (at the beginning of the Shenandoah National Park) and further on in the Park, in the vicinity of Sperryville to the east and Luray to the west, they reach an apex in lofty Hawksbill Mountain and in the slightly lower though more imposing Stony Man Mountain. “In 1886, fifty years before the establishment of the Shenandoah National Park, a young man came to Stony Man Mountain and in 1894 (on one of its shoulders, a plateau) he founded a summer resort. Soon known far and wide as ‘Skyland,’ this resort was and, to a degree, still is the heart of Stony Man Mountain as well as of the area surrounding it and until 1937, the young man (he never grew old) was the soul of Skyland.”—STUART E. BROWN, JR.
Author: Emilie Richards
Publisher: MIRA
ISBN: 0778315436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 493
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Sam Kinkade, a minister in Virginia's rural Shenandoah Valley, turns to Elisa Martinez when his plans to welcome the area's Hispanic community to the church is met with resistance. Reissue.
