Author: Ernest Theodore HillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Houseboats
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Houseboat and River-bottoms People
Author: Ernest Theodore HillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Houseboats
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Houseboat and River-bottoms People
Author: Ernest Theodore HillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Houseboats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Houseboat and River-bottoms People
Author: Ernest Theodore HillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
Houseboat and River-bottoms People
Author: Elmer Clarence SandmeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Houseboat and River-bottoms People
Author: Earl Hampton PritchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Houseboat and River-bottoms People
Author: Elmer Clarence SandmeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banks and banking
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Houseboat and River-bottoms People; a Study of 683 Households in Sample Localities Adjacent to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. In Cooperation with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the National Research Project of the Works Progress Administration
Author: Ernest Theodore HillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Houseboats
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Shantyboat
Author: Harlan HubbardPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813113593
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Shantyboat is the story of a leisurely journey down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans. For most people such a journey is the stuff that dreams are made of, but for Harlan and Anna Hubbard, it became a cherished reality. In their small river craft, the Hubbards became one with the flowing river and its changing weathers. This book mirrors a life that is simple and independent, strenuous at times, but joyous, with leisure for painting and music, for observation and contemplation.
Flatheads and Spooneys
Author: Jens LundPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184770
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Since the early 1800s, people have made a living fishing and harvesting mussels in the lower Ohio Valley. These river folk are conscious of an occupational and social identity separate from those who earn their living from the land. Sustained by a shared love of the river, deriving joy from the beauty of their chosen environment, and feeling great pride in their ability to subsist on its wild resources and to master the skills required to make a living from it, many still identify with the nomadic houseboat-dwelling subculture that flourished on the river from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s. Today's community of fisherfolk is small and economically marginal, but their activities sustain a complex set of traditional skills and a body of verbal folklore associated with river life. In Flatheads and Spoonies, Jens Lund describes the activities, boats, gear, verbal lore, and sense of identity of the fisher folk of the lower Ohio River Valley and provides historical and ethnobiological background for their way of life. Lund connects the importance of river fish in the diet of inhabitants of the valley to local fishing activities and explores the relationship between river people and those whose culture is primarily land-based, painting a colorful portrait of river fishing and river life. This book offers a look—historical and ethnographic—at a little-known aspect of traditional life in the American Midwest, still surviving today despite immense changes in environment, resources, and economic base.
Shantyboats and Roustabouts
Author: Gregg AndrewsPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807179078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Shantyboat dwellers and steamboat roustabouts formed an organic part of the cultural landscape of the Mississippi River bottoms during the rise of industrial America and the twilight of steamboat packets from 1875 to 1930. Nevertheless, both groups remain understudied by scholars of the era. Most of what we know about these laborers on the river comes not from the work of historians but from travel accounts, novelists, songwriters, and early film producers. As a result, images of these men and women are laden with nostalgia and minstrelsy. Gregg Andrews’s Shantyboats and Roustabouts uses the waterfront squatter settlements and Black entertainment district near the levee in St. Louis as a window into the world of the river poor in the Mississippi Valley, exploring their daily struggles and experiences and vividly describing people heretofore obscured by classist and racist caricatures.