Author: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrages
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Navigation Conditions at Markland Locks and Dam, Ohio River
Author: Waterways Experiment Station (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Barrages
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Navigation Conditions at McAlpine Locks and Dam, Ohio River
Author: Louis J. ShowsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic models
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. National Bureau of StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
NBS Special Publication
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Navigation Conditions at Gallipolis Locks and Dam, Ohio River
Author: Louis J. ShowsNavigation Model Studies of New Ohio River Locks
Author: Eugene P. FortsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Locks (Hydraulic engineering)
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Current Hydraulic Laboratory Research in the United States
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hydraulic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Miscellaneous Publication - National Bureau of Standards
Author: United States. National Bureau of StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
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.