Author: Fred Habermehl
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781775310211
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: James M. Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church history
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: Ada Calhoun
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249794
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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A vibrant narrative history of three hallowed Manhattan blocks—the epicenter of American cool. St. Marks Place in New York City has spawned countless artistic and political movements. Here Frank O’Hara caroused, Emma Goldman plotted, and the Velvet Underground wailed. But every generation of miscreant denizens believes that their era, and no other, marked the street’s apex. This idiosyncratic work of reportage tells the many layered history of the street—from its beginnings as Colonial Dutch Director-General Peter Stuyvesant’s pear orchard to today’s hipster playground—organized around those pivotal moments when critics declared “St. Marks is dead.” In a narrative enriched by hundreds of interviews and dozens of rare images, St. Marks native Ada Calhoun profiles iconic characters from W. H. Auden to Abbie Hoffman, from Keith Haring to the Beastie Boys, among many others. She argues that St. Marks has variously been an elite address, an immigrants’ haven, a mafia warzone, a hippie paradise, and a backdrop to the film Kids—but it has always been a place that outsiders call home. This idiosyncratic work offers a bold new perspective on gentrification, urban nostalgia, and the evolution of a community.

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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Author: J. A. Huss
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781950232697
Category :
Languages : en
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Author: James M Burgess
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020436291
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This is a detailed historical record of one of the earliest Episcopal churches in America, founded by the Reverend Samuel Thomas in the mid-18th century. The book includes transcripts of the original church registers, minute books, correspondence, and other sources, as well as extensive genealogical data on the members and their families. This is a valuable primary source for anyone interested in the history of the south-eastern United States or the Anglican Church in North America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Dennis Eric Nineham
Publisher: Penguin Group
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Saint Mark's Gospel is generally agreed to be the primary source for the life of Jesus - both Matthew and Luke drew on his account when they were writing their own. None of them, stresses the author of this book, was attempting to create a modern-style biography. But although Mark lays his own individual emphasis on the perennial struggle between the forces of good and evil, the suffering and secret Messiahship of Christ, he seems largely to be handing on, unmodified, the traditions of the early Christian Church.

Author: Tim F. LaHaye
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780399154478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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Overhearing Jesus's prophecies of events to come and witnessing such events as Judas's betrayal, Peter's denial, and the Resurrection, Mark becomes a devoted disciple of Christianity and urges Peter to recount to him the story of Jesus's life on earth. By the authors of John's Story. 350,000 first printing.

Author: Victoria Thompson
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440673438
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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In turn-of-the century New York City, midwife Sarah Brandt and Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy see birth and death--and even murder...

Author: Mary Gaitskill
Publisher: Pantheon
ISBN: 0307379744
Category : Dominican Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Taken in by a near-alcoholic artist and a jaded academic, a young Dominican girl in Brooklyn's Fresh Air Fund program explores the contrasts between her inner-city life and her hosts' privileged world and finds her realities powerfully shaped by her relationship with a horse.