Author: Bohdan S. WynarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Colorado Bibliography
Author: Bohdan S. WynarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
Historical Atlas and Chronology of County Boundaries, 1788-1980: Iowa, Missouri
Author: The Ancestors and Descendants of Joseph Skinner, 1803-1857
Author: Virginia Biddle ThodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Joseph Skinner who was born 15 November 1803 in Corinth, Penobscot Co., Maine. He was a descendant of Thomas Skinner who was born ca. 1617 in England. Thomas married Mary Gooden and immigrated to America ca. 1650. Joseph married Mary Gaston 9 September 1824 in Meigs Co., Ohio. They lived in Newman, Douglas Co., Illinois and were the parents of ten sons and three daughters. Descendants lived primarily in Illinois.
Georgia Genealogical Research
Author: George Keene SchweitzerPublisher: Genealogical Sources, Unlimited
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: Official Manual of the State of Missouri
Author: Missouri. Office of the Secretary of StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
History of Kentucky
Author: William Elsey ConnelleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Sweet Greeks
Author: Ann Flesor BeckPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252052285
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Gus Flesor came to the United States from Greece in 1901. His journey led him to Tuscola, Illinois, where he learned the confectioner's trade and opened a business that still stands on Main Street. Sweet Greeks sets the story of Gus Flesor's life as an immigrant in a small town within the larger history of Greek migration to the Midwest. Ann Flesor Beck's charming personal account recreates the atmosphere of her grandfather's candy kitchen with its odors of chocolate and popcorn and the comings-and-goings of family members. "The Store" represented success while anchoring the business district of Gus's chosen home. It also embodied the Midwest émigré experience of chain migration, immigrant networking, resistance and outright threats by local townspeople, food-related entrepreneurship, and tensions over whether later generations would take over the business. An engaging blend of family memoir and Midwest history, Sweet Greeks tells how Greeks became candy makers to the nation, one shop at a time.
The Illinois Medical Journal
Author: Handbook of the Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States
Author: William A. KretzschmarPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226452838
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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.