Author: David Steven Cohen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813511955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
David Cohen lived among the Ramapo Mountain People for a year, conducting genealogical research into church records, deeds, wills, and inventories in county courthouses and libraries. He established that their ancestors included free black landowners in New York City and mulattoes with some Dutch ancestry who were among the first pioneers to settle in the Hackensack River Valley of New Jersey.
The Ramapo Mountain People
Author: David Steven Cohen
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813511955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
David Cohen lived among the Ramapo Mountain People for a year, conducting genealogical research into church records, deeds, wills, and inventories in county courthouses and libraries. He established that their ancestors included free black landowners in New York City and mulattoes with some Dutch ancestry who were among the first pioneers to settle in the Hackensack River Valley of New Jersey.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813511955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
David Cohen lived among the Ramapo Mountain People for a year, conducting genealogical research into church records, deeds, wills, and inventories in county courthouses and libraries. He established that their ancestors included free black landowners in New York City and mulattoes with some Dutch ancestry who were among the first pioneers to settle in the Hackensack River Valley of New Jersey.
Ramapough Mountain Indians
Author: Edward J. Lenik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615525181
Category : Ramapo Mountain people
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615525181
Category : Ramapo Mountain people
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
Marching with Aunt Susan
Author: Claire Rudolf Murphy
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 1682633047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
All Bessie wants is to go hiking with her father and brothers. But it's 1896, and girls don't get to hike. They can't vote either, which Bessie discovers when Susan B. Anthony comes to town to help lead the campaign for women's suffrage. Stirred into action, Bessie joins the movement and discovers that small efforts can result in small changes—and maybe even big ones. Inspired by the diary of the real-life Bessie Keith Pond, a ten-year-old girl who lived in California during the suffrage campaign, author Claire Rudolf Murphy and illustrator Stacey Schuett offer a thought-provoking introduction to the fight for women's rights. This story of hope and determination is perfect for girl-power readers!
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 1682633047
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
All Bessie wants is to go hiking with her father and brothers. But it's 1896, and girls don't get to hike. They can't vote either, which Bessie discovers when Susan B. Anthony comes to town to help lead the campaign for women's suffrage. Stirred into action, Bessie joins the movement and discovers that small efforts can result in small changes—and maybe even big ones. Inspired by the diary of the real-life Bessie Keith Pond, a ten-year-old girl who lived in California during the suffrage campaign, author Claire Rudolf Murphy and illustrator Stacey Schuett offer a thought-provoking introduction to the fight for women's rights. This story of hope and determination is perfect for girl-power readers!
The Kallikak Family
Author: Henry Herbert Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Heredity
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Indians in the Ramapos
Author: Edward J. Lenik
Publisher: North Jersey Highlands Historical
ISBN: 9780967570600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Publisher: North Jersey Highlands Historical
ISBN: 9780967570600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 107
Book Description
Les Paul in His Own Words
Author: Les Paul
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781495047398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The guitarist and inventor describes his music career, his relationship with his wife Mary Ford, and the inspirations for the inventions that changed the music industry.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781495047398
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The guitarist and inventor describes his music career, his relationship with his wife Mary Ford, and the inspirations for the inventions that changed the music industry.
Embracing the Infidel
Author: Behzad Yaghmaian
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0553382942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-American Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has managed to do–as he enters the world of Muslim migrants and tells their extraordinary stories of hope for a new life in the West. In a tent city in Greece, they huddle together. Men and women from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, and other countries. Most have survived war and brutal imprisonment, political and social persecution. Some have faced each other in battle, and all share a powerful desire for freedom. Behzad Yaghmaian lived among them, listened to their hopes, dreams, and fears–and now he weaves together dozens of their stories of yearning, persecution, and unwavering faith. We meet Uncle Suleiman, an Iraqi veteran of the Iran-Iraq war; once imprisoned by Saddam Hussein, he is now a respected elder of a ramshackle tent city in Athens, offering comfort and community to his fellow travelers…Purya, who fled Iran only to fall into the clutches of human smugglers and survive beatings and torture in Bulgaria…and Shahroukh Khan, an Afghan teenager whose world at home was shattered twice–once by the Taliban and again by American bombs–but whose story turns on a single moment of awakening and love in the courtyard of a Turkish mosque. A chronicle of husbands separated from wives, children from parents, Embracing the Infidel is a portrait of men and women moving toward a promised land they may never reach–and away from a world to which they cannot return. It is an unforgettable tale of heartbreak and prejudice, courage, heroism, and hope.
Publisher: Delta
ISBN: 0553382942
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
An eye-opening personal account of an epic human drama, Embracing the Infidel takes us on an astounding journey along a modern-day underground railroad that stretches from Istanbul to Paris. In this groundbreaking book, Iranian-American Behzad Yaghmaian has done what no other writer has managed to do–as he enters the world of Muslim migrants and tells their extraordinary stories of hope for a new life in the West. In a tent city in Greece, they huddle together. Men and women from Iraq, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iran, and other countries. Most have survived war and brutal imprisonment, political and social persecution. Some have faced each other in battle, and all share a powerful desire for freedom. Behzad Yaghmaian lived among them, listened to their hopes, dreams, and fears–and now he weaves together dozens of their stories of yearning, persecution, and unwavering faith. We meet Uncle Suleiman, an Iraqi veteran of the Iran-Iraq war; once imprisoned by Saddam Hussein, he is now a respected elder of a ramshackle tent city in Athens, offering comfort and community to his fellow travelers…Purya, who fled Iran only to fall into the clutches of human smugglers and survive beatings and torture in Bulgaria…and Shahroukh Khan, an Afghan teenager whose world at home was shattered twice–once by the Taliban and again by American bombs–but whose story turns on a single moment of awakening and love in the courtyard of a Turkish mosque. A chronicle of husbands separated from wives, children from parents, Embracing the Infidel is a portrait of men and women moving toward a promised land they may never reach–and away from a world to which they cannot return. It is an unforgettable tale of heartbreak and prejudice, courage, heroism, and hope.
Origin of the Jackson-Whites of the Ramapo Mountains
Author: John C. Storms
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ramapo Mountain people
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ramapo Mountain people
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Faith of a Collie
Author: Albert Payson Terhune
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Mars, a golden red collie, plays an important part in this story of a search for a Revolutionary War Treasure chest in the Ramapo Mountains of New Jersey.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Mars, a golden red collie, plays an important part in this story of a search for a Revolutionary War Treasure chest in the Ramapo Mountains of New Jersey.
Giving Good Weight
Author: John McPhee
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708576
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"You people come into the market—the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun—and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are—people of the city—and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales." So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374708576
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"You people come into the market—the Greenmarket, in the open air under the down pouring sun—and you slit the tomatoes with your fingernails. With your thumbs, you excavate the cheese. You choose your stringbeans one at a time. You pulp the nectarines and rape the sweet corn. You are something wonderful, you are—people of the city—and we, who are almost without exception strangers here, are as absorbed with you as you seem to be with the numbers on our hanging scales." So opens the title piece in this collection of John McPhee's classic essays, grouped here with four others, including "Brigade de Cuisine," a profile of an artistic and extraordinary chef; "The Keel of Lake Dickey," in which a journey down the whitewater of a wild river ends in the shadow of a huge projected dam; a report on plans for the construction of nuclear power plants that would float in the ocean; and a pinball shoot-out between two prizewinning journalists.