Author: Charles H. GlatfelterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Glen Rock, an Historical Review
Author: Charles H. GlatfelterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 437
Book Description
Glen Rock
Author: Diane Humphrey BarsaPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738510460
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Originally part of the Bergen County area known as Godwinville and then Ridgewood, Glen Rock voted to become a borough in 1894. The rock from which the borough took its name was deposited at the end of the last ice age by a retreating glacier. Local folklore tells of Native Americans, the Lenni Lenape, holding meetings on the rock. Early settlers used the rock as a landmark in deeds for the farms they created out of the heavily wooded land. Local streams powered gristmills and sawmills. By 1842, trains brought goods to the area, and within a decade, passenger trains carried the first of the daily commuters to and from New York City. Glen Rock, a photographic journey, documents the growth of the community from the late 1880s through the late 1950s. The early strawberry fields, farms, mills, and hotels made way for today's stores and homes. The dirt roads once used by horse and buggy, stagecoach, and bicycle were paved for early automobiles. The original schools became too small to hold the growing number of children, and new schools were built. Glen Rock's leaders created municipal departments, civic organizations, emergency services, businesses, and places of worship. Parades, picnics, and pageants entertained Glen Rockers. Wars and the Great Depression brought citizens together, and residents gathered to help each other and the nation.
The Centennial History of Glen Rock, New Jersey
Author: The Natural History Review
Author: The Soviet Famine of 1946-47 in Global and Historical Perspective
Author: N. GansonPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230620965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
This book illuminates a little-known but tremendously significant twentieth-century crisis in the Soviet Union. Drawing on archival materials declassified since the fall of communism, Nicholas Ganson situates the famine of 1946-47 at the crossroads of Soviet social and political history, World War II, the Cold War, ideology, and famine in the modern world. He sheds light on the perspectives of Soviet elites and gives voice to the famine s victims. In revealing the multi-causality of the postwar hunger, this ambitious work challenges the received wisdom about the relationship between politics and famine.
Oral History
Author: Nancy WhistlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
History of Oral History
Author: Thomas Lee CharltonPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759102309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Contains seven essays from Handbook of oral history, published in 2006.
The Catholic Historical Review
Author: Transcribing and Editing Oral History
Author: Willa K. BaumPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780910050265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Non-Aboriginal material.
Valley Walls
Author: Glen DennyPublisher: Yosemite Conservancy
ISBN: 193023869X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Half a century ago a rag-tag group of innovators was building a foundation for modern American rock climbing from a makeshift home base in Yosemite. Photographer Glen Denny was a key figure in this golden age of climbing, capturing pioneering feats on camera while tackling challenging ascents himself. In entertaining short pieces enlivened by his iconic black-and-white images of Yosemite's big wall legends, Denny reveals a young man's coming of age and provides a vivid look at Yosemite’s early climbing culture. He relates such precarious achievements as hauling water in glass gallon jugs up the east face of Washington Column, nailing the 750-foot Rostrum in a punishing heat wave, and dangling overnight on El Capitan’s Dihedral Wall in a lightning storm. Each true tale captures the spirit of historic Camp 4, where Denny and others plan the next big climb while living on the cheap and dodging park rangers.