Author: John HamlinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Beloved Acres
Author: John HamlinBeloved Land
Author: Patricia Preciado MartinPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816534365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Doña Ramona Benítez Franco was born in 1902 on her parents' Arizona ranch and celebrated her hundredth birthday with family and friends in 2002, still living in her family's century-old adobe house. Doña Ramona witnessed many changes in the intervening years, but her memories of the land and customs she knew as a child are indelible. For Doña Ramona as well as for countless generations of Mexican Americans, memories of rural life recall la querida tierra, the beloved land. Through good times and bad, the land provided sustenance. Today, many of those homesteads and ranches have succumbed to bulldozers that have brought housing projects and strip malls in their wake. Now a writer and a photographer who have long been intimately involved with Arizona's Hispanic community have preserved the voices and images of men and women who are descendants of pioneer ranching and farming families in southern Arizona. Ranging from Tucson to the San Rafael Valley and points in between, this book documents the contributions of Mexican American families whose history and culture are intertwined with the lifestyle of the contemporary Southwest. These were hardy, self-reliant pioneers who settled in what were then remote areas. Their stories tell of love affairs with the land and a way of life that is rapidly disappearing. Through oral histories and a captivating array of historic and contemporary photos, Beloved Land records a vibrant and resourceful way of life that has contributed so much to the region. Individuals like Doña Ramona tell stories about rural life, farming, ranching, and vaquero culture that enrich our knowledge of settlement, culinary practices, religious traditions, arts, and education of Hispanic settlers of Arizona. They talk frankly about how the land changed hands—not always by legal means—and tell how they feel about modern society and the disappearance of the rural lifestyle. "Our ranch homes and fields, our chapels and corrals may have been bulldozed by progress or renovated into spas and guest ranches that never whisper our ancestors' names," writes Patricia Preciado Martin. "The story of our beautiful and resilient heritage will never be silenced . . . as long as we always remember to run our fingers through the nourishing and nurturing soil of our history." Beloved Land works that soil as it revitalizes that history for the generations to come.
Beloved Bethesda
Author: Edward J. CashinPublisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865547223
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
For example, Bethesda sustained the state during the dark years of 1740 to 1742 when Spanish invaders threatened the infant colony." "Whitefield's "Beloved Bethesda" has seen its graduates take their places in leadership positions throughout the state, and Savannah's residents have sustained the institution. In that respect, the story of Bethesda is also a history of Savannah."--BOOK JACKET.
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Author: New-York Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Writer
Author: The Granite Monthly
Author: Henry Harrison MetcalfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Brockman, Anderson Bennett, Dean, Clark, Parks, Burt, and allied families
Author: William Everett BrockmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of Indiana
Author: Indiana. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Side-lights on Maryland History
Author: Hester Dorsey RichardsonPublisher:
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Building a Moral Economy
Author: Cynthia D. Moe-LobedaPublisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN: 1506485197
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Moe-Lobeda develops a groundbreaking, practical, and visionary guidebook for building a moral economy: its urgency, the life-giving role of religious networks, and the varied forms of action needed. She skillfully traces pathways to follow in the sacred journey to equitable, ecological, and democratic economies: sustainable life in community.