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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 1054
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A History and Record of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia
Author: The Churchman
Author: The Living Church
Author: Whitaker's Books in Print
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Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 3116
Book Description
Down on the Batture
Author: Oliver A. HouckPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1628468351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
The lower Mississippi River winds past the city of New Orleans between enormous levees and a rim of sand, mud, and trees called “the batture.” On this remote and ignored piece of land thrives a humanity unique to the region—ramblers, artists, drinkers, fishers, rabbit hunters, dog walkers, sunset watchers, and refugees from immigration, alimony, and other aspects of modern life. Author Oliver A. Houck has frequented this place for the past twenty-five years. Down on the Batture describes a life, pastoral, at times marginal, but remarkably fecund and surprising. From this place he meditates on Louisiana, the state of the waterway, and its larger environs. He describes all the actors who have played lead roles on the edge of the mightiest river of the continent, and includes in his narrative plantations, pollution, murder, land grabs, keelboat brawlers, slave rebellions, the Corps of Engineers, and the oil industry. Houck draws from his experience in New Orleans since the early 1970s in the practice and teaching of law. He has been a player in many of the issues he describes, although he does not undertake to argue them here. Instead, story by story, he uses the batture to explore the forces that have shaped and spell out the future of the region. The picture emerges of a place that—for all its tangle of undergrowth, drifting humanity, shifting dimensions in the rise and fall of floodwater—provides respite and sanctuary for values that are original to America and ever at risk from the homogenizing forces of civilization.
Canal Record
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Discovering African American St. Louis
Author: John Aaron WrightPublisher: Missouri History Museum
ISBN: 9781883982454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
African Americans have been part of the story of St. Louis since the city's founding in 1764. Unfortunately, most histories of the city have overlooked or ignored their vital role, allowing their influence and accomplishments to go unrecorded or uncollected; that is, until the publication of Discovering African American St. Louis: A Guide to Historic Sites in 1994. A new and updated 2002 edition is now available to take readers on a fascinating tour of nearly four hundred African American landmarks. From the boyhood home of jazz great Miles Davis in East St. Louis, Illinois, to the site of the house that sparked the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer court case, the maps, photographs, and text of Discovering African American St. Louis record a history that has been neglected for too long. The guidebook covers fourteen regions east and west of the Mississippi that represent St. Louis's rich African American heritage. In the words of historian Gary Kremer, "No one who reads this book and visits and contemplates the places and peoples whose stories it recounts will be able to look at St. Louis in the same way ever again."
Who's who in America
Author: John William LeonardPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2120
Book Description
Vols. 28-30 accompanied by separately published parts with title: Indices and necrology.
Canal Record, Published Weekly Under Authority and Supervision of Isthmian Canal Commission
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Category : Panama Canal (Panama)
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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