Author: Patricia G. Holland
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 0738592927
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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North Amherst and Cushman, villages within the town of Amherst, were settled in the early 1700s. Farms dominated the area's rolling hills, and mills lined the fast-flowing Mill River. In the 19th century, large factories grew in Cushman, which was then called North Amherst City. The train in Cushman and later the trolley in North Amherst made travel easy for workers, shoppers, and visitors. After the arrival of low-cost automobiles, the trolley tracks were torn up in 1925, and the little village shops acquired gas pumps. By the end of the 1930s, all the factories had closed and their buildings were demolished. Stephen Puffer's ice works shut down in the early 1940s, but Puffer's Pond is now a beautiful fishing and swimming spot, and the dam carries a lovely waterfall. With the University of Massachusetts at Amherst's expansion in the 1960s, much of the area's farmland was developed. Today, residents seek a balance between preservation and growth.
Author: William Francis Crafts
Publisher:
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Category : Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 912
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Author: Daughters of the American Revolution
Publisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Includes inclusive "Errata for the Linage book."
Author: Massachusetts. Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1174
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Author: Massachusetts. General Court
Publisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Contains rules of both branches of the General Court, the constitution of the commonwealth and that of the United States, lists of executive, legislative and judicial departments of the state, etc.
Author: Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 882
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Author: Massachusetts Agricultural College
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Category : Agricultural education
Languages : en
Pages : 862
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Author: Emily Polk
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739198548
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
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This book explores the communication processes of the Transition Movement, a community-led global social movement, as it was adapted in a local context. First it analyzes how the movement’s grand narratives of responding to “climate change” and creating greater “resiliency” were communicated into local community-based stories, responses, and actions in the Transition Town of Amherst, Massachusetts. Second, it seeks to understand the multilayered communication processes that facilitate these actions toward sustainable social change. Transition Amherst developed and/or supported projects that addressed reducing dependency on peak-oil, creating community-based-local economies, supporting sustainable food production and consumption, and participating in more efficient transportation, among others. The popularity of the model coincides with an increase in the interest in and use of the term “sustainability” by media, academics and policymakers around the world, and an increase in the global use of digital technology as a resource for information gathering and sharing. Thus this book situates itself at the intersections of a global environmental and economic crisis, the popularization of the term “sustainability,” and an increasingly digitized and networked global society in order to better understand how social change is contextualized and facilitated in a local community via a global network. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the ways in which the theories of Transition are applied over an extended period of time in practice, on the ground in a Transition town.
Author: Alexander Edmond Cance
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 92
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Author: American Home Missionary Society
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Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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