Author: Edward Francis MoreartyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Omaha (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Omaha Memories
Author: Edward Francis MoreartyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Omaha (Neb.)
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
My Omaha Obsession
Author: Miss CassettePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 149622471X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha’s neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city’s unusual history. Rather than covering the city’s best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don’t exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property’s singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city’s offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.
Omaha Blues
Author: Joseph LelyveldPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1429931620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
The profoundly moving family history of one of America's greatest newspapermen. As his father lies dying, Joseph Lelyveld finds himself in the basement of the Cleveland synagogue where Arthur Lelyveld was the celebrated rabbi. Nicknamed "the memory boy" by his parents, the fifty-nine-year-old son begins to revisit the portion of his father's life recorded in letters, newspaper clippings, and mementos stored in a dusty camp trunk. In an excursion into an unsettled and shakily recalled period of his boyhood, Lelyveld uses these artifacts, and the journalistic reporting techniques of his career as an author and editor, to investigate memories that have haunted him in adult life.. With equal measures of candor and tenderness, Lelyveld unravels the tangled story of his father and his mother, a Shakespeare scholar whose passion for independence led her to recoil from her roles as a clergyman's wife and, for a time, as a mother. This reacquired history of his sometimes troubled family becomes the framework for the author's story; in particular, his discovery in early adolescence of the way personal emotions cue political choices, when he is forced to choose sides between his father and his own closest adult friend, a colleague of his father's who is suddenly dismissed for concealing Communist ties. Lelyveld's effort to recapture his family history takes him on an unforeseen journey past disparate landmarks of the last century, including the Scottsboro trials, the Zionist movement, the Hollywood blacklist, McCarthyism, and Mississippi's "freedom summer" of 1964. His excursion becomes both a meditation on the selectivity and unreliability of memory and a testimony to the possibilities, even late in life, for understanding and healing. In Omaha Blues, as Lelyveld seeks out the truth of his life story, he evokes a remarkable moment in our national story with unforgettable poignancy.
Nebraska History Magazine
Author: Early History of Omaha
Author: Alfred Rasmus SorensonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385491207
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Early History of Omaha
Author: Alfred Rasmus SorensonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Nebraska History and Record of Pioneer Days
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nebraska
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"Nebraska's dead: names of men from our state who gave their lives in the World War" in v. 2, no. 1, p. 4-8.
Doc
Author: Lee SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732200005
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Throughout the course of his career as a veterinarian and zoo director, Dr. Lee G. Simmons has see just about everything in the zoo world. Doc is a collection of Simmons' favorite animal stories and tales from traveling the world to celebrate his passion for animals.
Lost Omaha
Author: Janet R. Daly BednarekPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467119849
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The landmarks of Omaha's past reveal a history of industry, innovation and change. The Hotel Fontenelle, the Omaha Athletic Club and the Medical Arts Building disappeared in the wake of changes remaking downtown after World War II. Jobbers Canyon, a vital part of the city's wholesale district, was sacrificed to ConAgra's headquarters. Peony Park closed as suburban sprawl prevented its expansion, and changing leisure patterns took residents farther away for their amusement park experience. The stockyards finally closed in 1999, ending a long chapter in Omaha's history. Author and historian Janet R. Daly Bednarek charts the legacy of Omaha's lost history through its landmarks.
On the Border with Crook
Author: John Gregory BourkePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Generals
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
A firsthand account of General George Crook's campaigns against the Indians, by a member of his staff.