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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Category : Genealogy
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Pages : 846
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Author: Edgar Francis Waterman
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Author: Waterman family
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Category : Plantations
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Miscellaneous papers of the John Waterman family, including a family record of births and deaths; an autobiographical sketch of Capt. John Waterman (1761-1847); diaries (1838-1839) of Dr. John Waterman, describing his voyage to, and stay at, Sparta, Ga.; and copies of letters exchanged (probably 20th century) between John Anderson Waterman of Gorham, Me., and Martha Harris, of Atlanta, Ga., about a map of Myles Harris's plantation (likely in Georgia).
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Author: Barbara Mitchell
Publisher: Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Young Annie begins with her great grandmother and tells about her family's life as fishermen on Chesapeake Bay.
Author: Spencer All
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Languages : en
Pages : 21
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Author: Donald Lines JACOBUS
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Author: Connecticut Historical Society, The
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Category : Princess Anne County (Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Author: Michael Loynd
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 059335706X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
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The feel-good underdog story of the first American swimmer to win Olympic gold, set against the turbulent rebirth of the modern Games, that “bring[s] to life an inspiring figure and illuminate[s] an overlooked chapter in America’s sports history” (The Wall Street Journal) “Once or twice in a decade, one of these stories . . . like Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken [or] Daniel Brown’s The Boys in the Boat . . . captures the imagination of the public. . . . Add The Watermen by Michael Loynd to this illustrious list.”—Swimming World Winner of the International Swimming Hall of Fame’s Paragon Award and the Buck Dawson Authors Award In the early twentieth century, few Americans knew how to swim, and swimming as a competitive sport was almost unheard of. That is, until Charles Daniels took to the water. On the surface, young Charles had it all: high-society parents, a place at an exclusive New York City prep school, summer vacations in the Adirondacks. But the scrawny teenager suffered from extreme anxiety thanks to a sadistic father who mired the family in bankruptcy and scandal before abandoning Charles and his mother altogether. Charles’s only source of joy was swimming. But with no one to teach him, he struggled with technique—until he caught the eye of two immigrant coaches hell-bent on building a U.S. swim program that could rival the British Empire’s seventy-year domination of the sport. Interwoven with the story of Charles’s efforts to overcome his family’s disgrace is the compelling history of the struggle to establish the modern Olympics in an era when competitive sports were still in their infancy. When the powerful British Empire finally legitimized the Games by hosting the fourth Olympiad in 1908, Charles’s hard-fought rise climaxed in a gold-medal race where British judges prepared a trap to ensure the American upstart’s defeat. Set in the early days of a rapidly changing twentieth century, The Watermen—a term used at the time to describe men skilled in water sports—tells an engrossing story of grit, of the growth of a major new sport in which Americans would prevail, and of a young man’s determination to excel.
