Author: Mount Pleasant, Pa. Church of GodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
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The Historical Record of the Mount Pleasant Church of God
Author: Mount Pleasant, Pa. Church of GodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Twilight in Hazard
Author: Alan MaimonPublisher: Melville House
ISBN: 1612198856
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
“Twilight in Hazard paints a more nuanced portrait of Appalachia than Vance did...[Maimon] eviscerates Vance's bestseller with stiletto precision.” —Associated Press From investigative reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Alan Maimon comes the story of how a perfect storm of events has had a devastating impact on life in small town Appalachia, and on the soul of a shaken nation . . . When Alan Maimon got the assignment in 2000 to report on life in rural Eastern Kentucky, his editor at the Louisville Courier-Journal told him to cover the region “like a foreign correspondent would.” And indeed, when Maimon arrived in Hazard, Kentucky fresh off a reporting stint for the New York Times’s Berlin bureau, he felt every bit the outsider. He had landed in a place in the vice grip of ecological devastation and a corporate-made opioid epidemic—a place where vote-buying and drug-motivated political assassinations were the order of the day. While reporting on the intense religious allegiances, the bitter, bareknuckled political rivalries, and the faltering attempts to emerge from a century-long coal-based economy, Maimon learns that everything—and nothing—you have heard about the region is true. And far from being a foreign place, it is a region whose generations-long struggles are driven by quintessentially American forces. Resisting the easy cliches, Maimon’s Twilight in Hazard gives us a profound understanding of the region from his years of careful reporting. It is both a powerful chronicle of a young reporter’s immersion in a place, and of his return years later—this time as the husband of a Harlan County coal miner’s daughter—to find the area struggling with its identity and in the thrall of Trumpism as a political ideology. Twilight in Hazard refuses to mythologize Central Appalachia. It is a plea to move past the fixation on coal, and a reminder of the true costs to democracy when the media retreats from places of rural distress. It is an intimate portrait of a people staring down some of the most pernicious forces at work in America today while simultaneously being asked: How could you let this happen to yourselves? Twilight in Hazard instead tells the more riveting, noirish, and sometimes bitingly humorous story of how we all let this happen.
History of the Mount Pleasant Mennonite Church
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Category : Paradise (Lancaster County, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Mount Pleasant
Author: Jeffrey MeyerPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439657718
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
From its earliest years, Mount Pleasant was known as the "Athens of Iowa": a small town with a big story and a center of learning and culture. Even during the town's pioneer era, the citizens of Mount Pleasant championed education, establishing numerous schools and a college. Progressive ideals, including abolitionism and women's education, took root. As the home of Sen. James Harlan, an important ally of Abraham Lincoln, the city emerged as a bastion of support for the president. During the hardship of the Civil War, the community took up a second cause, becoming the location of the state mental health asylum. The drive for the improvement of life only increased, bolstered by the city's numerous schools, churches, and most importantly a spirit of community.
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Author: The History of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America
Author: Charles Henry PhillipsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African American Christians
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Mount Pleasant
Author: Mary-Julia C. RoyallPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738506906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Located along the shores of the Charleston harbor, Mount Pleasant is a graceful, enchanting community known for its exquisite views of the water and landscape. Once comprised of five small hamlets, the area has seen phenomenal increases in both business and population, a growth that was correctly predicted when the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge linked the town with Charleston in 1929. It is a place where small-town charm lingers, even among the fast-paced life in which most residents now take part. Mount Pleasant: The Friendly Town begins the community's story where Mount Pleasant: The Victorian Village left off, and it bridges the 1930s with modern times. This compelling history illustrates the ways in which Mount Pleasant coped with the happenings of the 20th century, including such far-reaching events as World War II and the recovery following the Great Depression, and those much more intimate such as the devastation of Hurricane Hugo and the sesquicentennial celebration of the town. Readers will experience this unique area of South Carolina through the eyes of the residents who lived here during the town's coming of age.
History of the Township of Mount Pleasant, Wayne County, Pennsylvania
Author: Samuel WhaleyPublisher:
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Category : Mount Pleasant (Wayne County, Pa. : Township)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
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History of Johnson County, Indiana
Author: Elba L. BraniginPublisher:
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Category : Johnson County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
A history of the Baptists in Missouri
Author: R.S. DuncanPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5875681780
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 939
Book Description
A history of the Baptists in Missouri: embracing an Account of the Organization and Growth of Baptist Churches and Associations: Biographical Sketches of Ministers of the Gospel and Other Prominent Members of the Denomination: The Founding of the Baptist institutions, periodicals,&c.