Author: Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission
Author: Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Reprints of Reports of Valley Forge Park Commission for the Years 1894, 1896, 1900
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
This book provides three reports from the Valley Forge Park Commission, the reports containing information about the actions of the organization and the park that year.
Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Valley Forge (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Valley Forge
Author: Lorett TreesePublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271041735
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. Here, amid the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, visitors can pass through the house which served as Washington's Headquarters during the famous winter encampment of 1777-1778. Others picnic and jog in the huge park, complete with monuments, recreated log huts, and modern visitor center, all built to pay tribute to the Valley Forge story. In this lively book, Lorett Treese shows how Valley Forge evolved into the tourist mecca that it is today. In the process, she uses Valley Forge as a means for understanding how Americans view their own past. Treese explores the origins of popular images associated with Valley Forge, such as George Washington kneeling in the snow to seek divine assistance. She places Valley Forge in the context of the historic preservation movement as the site became Pennsylvania's first state park in 1893. She studies its "Era of Monuments" and the movement to "restore" Valley Forge in the spirit of Rockefeller's enormously popular colonial Williamsburg. Treese describes a Valley Forge fraught with controversy over the appropriate appearance and use of a place so revered. One such controversy, the "hot dog war," a brief but intense battle over concession stands, was spawned by Americans' changing perceptions of how a national park was to be used. The volatile Vietnam era prompted the state park commission to establish its "Subcommittee on Sex, Hippies, and Whiskey Swillers" to investigate park regulation infractions. Even today, people differ over exactly what happened at Valley Forge during the winter of 1777-1778. The modern visitor sees the remains of over a century of commemoration, competition, and contention. The result, Treese shows, is a historic site that may reveal more about succeeding history than about Washington's army. This book will give its readers a new way to look at Valley Forge--and all historic sites.
Report of the Valley Forge Park Commission
Author: Pennsylvania. Valley Forge Park CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Valley Forge Historical Research Project
Author: Wayne K. BodlePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
Official Documents, Comprising the Department and Other Reports Made to the Governor, Senate, and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania
Author: PennsylvaniaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative journals
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
Report of the State Treasurer on the Finances of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. TreasuryPublisher:
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Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 834
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