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Author: Writers' Program Georgia Publisher: Hassell Street Press ISBN: 9781019358702 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1939, this travel guide offers a fascinating snapshot of Macon, Georgia and its surrounding areas during the Depression Era. The guide provides detailed descriptions of local landmarks and attractions, including the Ocmulgee National Monument, a collection of prehistoric Native American mounds and artifacts. The prose is lively and engaging, and the illustrations and photographs give readers a vivid sense of the time and place. An excellent resource for history buffs, travelers, and anyone interested in the American South. 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: Writers' Program Georgia Publisher: Hassell Street Press ISBN: 9781019358702 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1939, this travel guide offers a fascinating snapshot of Macon, Georgia and its surrounding areas during the Depression Era. The guide provides detailed descriptions of local landmarks and attractions, including the Ocmulgee National Monument, a collection of prehistoric Native American mounds and artifacts. The prose is lively and engaging, and the illustrations and photographs give readers a vivid sense of the time and place. An excellent resource for history buffs, travelers, and anyone interested in the American South. 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: Federal Writers' Project Publisher: Trinity University Press ISBN: 1595342095 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 464
Book Description
During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors—many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures—were commissioned to write these important books. John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ralph Ellison are among the more than 6,000 writers, editors, historians, and researchers who documented this celebration of local histories. Photographs, drawings, driving tours, detailed descriptions of towns, and rich cultural details exhibit each state’s unique flavor. The WPA Guide to Georgia describes the rich historical and cultural background of America’s Peach State. With varied and interesting photos, the guide gives readers a real taste as to what sweet southern living was like in the 1940’s, all the way from the top of the Blue Ridge Mountains down to the roaring Mississippi River valley.
Author: Carol Thalimer Publisher: The Countryman Press ISBN: 1581571445 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 539
Book Description
Contains up-to-date information on travel in the state of Georgia, with recommendations on lodging, restaurants, regional events, family activities, entertainment, and natural landmarks.
Author: Matthew Jennings Publisher: ISBN: 9780881466478 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
In this brief illustrated guide to the national monument located in Macon, Georgia, that conserves ancient Mississippian mounds and 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River, Matthew Jennings and Gordon Johnston, like G.D. Pope and Lonnie Davis in earlier guides, introduce readers to the park's history, archaeology, Native cultures, and landscape. Jennings both updates the history and adds an account of the intercultural exchange that the park has brought about between the post-removal Muscogee Creek people native to the area and Georgians of the last several generations. This new guide braids into Jennings's concise historical overview Gordon Johnston's field notes and poems, written while Johnston was writer-in-residence at Ocmulgee National Monument, about the park's woods, streams, artifacts, and wildlife. The book includes transcriptions of oral stories by William Harjo (Muscogee) and an array of photographs and images, many of them new, that span the park's history, including Ocmulgee, an installation by artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne/Arapaho) in Atlanta in 2005.
Author: Niels Eichhorn, PhD Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467146943 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 128
Book Description
Macon was a cornerstone of the Confederacy's military-industrial complex. As a transportation hub, the city supplied weapons to the Confederacy, making it a target once the Union pushed into Georgia in 1864. In the course of the war's last year, Macon faced three separate cavalry assaults. The battles were small in the grand scheme but salient for the combatants and townspeople. Once the war concluded, it was from Macon that cavalry struck out to capture the fugitive Jefferson Davis, allowing the city to witness one of the last chapters of the conflict. Author Niels Eichhorn brings together the first comprehensive analysis of the military engagements and battles in Middle Georgia.
Author: William A. Kretzschmar Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226452838 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 476
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Who uses "skeeter hawk," "snake doctor," and "dragonfly" to refer to the same insect? Who says "gum band" instead of "rubber band"? The answers can be found in the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS), the largest single survey of regional and social differences in spoken American English. It covers the region from New York state to northern Florida and from the coastline to the borders of Ohio and Kentucky. Through interviews with nearly twelve hundred people conducted during the 1930s and 1940s, the LAMSAS mapped regional variations in vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation at a time when population movements were more limited than they are today, thus providing a unique look at the correspondence of language and settlement patterns. This handbook is an essential guide to the LAMSAS project, laying out its history and describing its scope and methodology. In addition, the handbook reveals biographical information about the informants and social histories of the communities in which they lived, including primary settlement areas of the original colonies. Dialectologists will rely on it for understanding the LAMSAS, and historians will find it valuable for its original historical research. Since much of the LAMSAS questionnaire concerns rural terms, the data collected from the interviews can pinpoint such language differences as those between areas of plantation and small-farm agriculture. For example, LAMSAS reveals that two waves of settlement through the Appalachians created two distinct speech types. Settlers coming into Georgia and other parts of the Upper South through the Shenandoah Valley and on to the western side of the mountain range had a Pennsylvania-influenced dialect, and were typically small farmers. Those who settled the Deep South in the rich lowlands and plateaus tended to be plantation farmers from Virginia and the Carolinas who retained the vocabulary and speech patterns of coastal areas. With these revealing findings, the LAMSAS represents a benchmark study of the English language, and this handbook is an indispensable guide to its riches.
Author: Writers' Program Georgia
Author: Writers' Program Georgia
Author: Writers' Program (U.S.). Georgia
Author: Carol Smallwood
Author: Federal Writers' Project
Author: Carol Thalimer
Author: University of Georgia Press
Author: Matthew Jennings
Author: G D Pope
Author: Niels Eichhorn, PhD
Author: William A. Kretzschmar