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Category : Missouri
Languages : en
Pages : 1186
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Missouri Historical Review
A Homeland and a Hinterland
Author: Donald L. StevensPublisher:
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Category : Current River (Mo. and Ark.)
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Pine Ford Lake Phase I Archeological Survey
Author: David J. IvesPublisher:
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Derby, with the Town of Burton-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, Comprising a General Survey of the County
Author: White, Francis, & CoPublisher:
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Category : Derbyshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
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History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk, and the Towns Near Its Borders
Author: William WhitePublisher:
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Category : Suffolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions
Author: Robert K. GilmorePublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806122700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions is about the people of a unique corner of America and how they entertained themselves at the turn of the century. In the years from 1885 to 1910 most Ozark communities were still relatively isolated from the outside and from each other. Thus they had to rely on their own resources for diversion from the difficult and often solitary business of everyday living. The most popular of their entertainments were those that brought some "theater" into their lives. They especially delighted in "literaries," debates, mock trials, closing-of-school programs, suppers, picnics, brush-arbor revivals, and baptizings. Then there was the occasional hanging that for audience attention was rivaled only by the political rally. The hanging took on all the flavor of high drama, even to the impassioned farewell address by the condemned, who was carried away by the excitement of it all. By their entertainments shall we know them, and this account of Ozarkers' diversions reveals them in all their independence, conservatism, sense of place, humor, dedication to learning, love of the spoken language, and religious and political intensity. No "come-here" (an Ozarker's term for a newcomer), Robert K. Gilmore grew up on an Ozark farm, reared by grandparents who were young in the era described in this book. Years later he went back to the rural Ozarks and encouraged the people to recall the early days for him. They described the entertainments of their youth with a special clarity of recall. The files of the Ozark weeklies also proved richly rewarding. The editors and their rural "correspondents" delighted in describing the local entertainments in vivid reportage loaded with editorial comment. This book, illustrated with rare photographs of turn-of-the-century diversions celebrates the centennial of an era.
History, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk
Author: William WhiteHistory, Gazetteer and Directory of Suffolk
Author: William White (of Sheffield.)Publisher:
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Category : Suffolk (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
A Reminiscent History of the Ozark Region
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ISBN: 9780893080877
Category : Arkansas
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Kelly's directory of Berkshire, Bucks and Oxon
Author: Kelly's directories, ltdPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
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