Author: Thomas ChadbournePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Stone Walls and Cellar Holes
Author: Thomas ChadbournePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Oxford County (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Stonewalls and Cellarholes
Author: Exploring Stone Walls
Author: Robert ThorsonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0802719260
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The only field guide to stone walls in the Northeast. Exploring Stone Walls is like being in Thorson's geology classroom, as he presents the many clues that allow you to determine any wall's history, age, and purpose. Thorson highlights forty-five places to see interesting and noteworthy walls, many of which are in public parks and preserves, from Acadia National Park in Maine to the South Fork of Long Island. Visit the tallest stone wall (Cliff Walk in Newport, Rhode Island), the most famous (Robert Frost's mending wall in Derry, New Hampshire), and many more. This field guide will broaden your horizons and deepen your appreciation of New England's rural history.
Reading Rural Landscapes: A Field Guide to New England's Past
Author: Robert StanfordPublisher: Tilbury House Publishers and Cadent Publishing
ISBN: 0884483703
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
William Faulkner once said, "The past is never dead. It's not even past." Nowhere can you see the truth behind his comment more plainly than in rural New England, especially Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and western Massachusetts. Everywhere we go in rural New England, the past surrounds us. In the woods and fields and along country roads, the traces are everywhere if we know what to look for and how to interpret what we see. A patch of neglected daylilies marks a long-abandoned homestead. A grown-over cellar hole with nearby stumps and remnants of stone wall and orchard shows us where a farm has been reclaimed by forest. And a piece of a stone dam and wooden sluice mark the site of a long-gone mill. Although slumping back into the landscape, these features speak to us if we can hear them and they can guide us to ancestral homesteads and famous sites. Lavishly illustrated with drawings and color photos. Provides the keys to interpret human artifacts in fields, woods, and roadsides and to reconstruct the past from surviving clues. Perfect to carry in a backpack or glove box. A unique and valuable resource for road trips, genealogical research, naturalists, and historians.
69th Annual Excursion of the Sandwich Historical Society
Author: Publisher: Sandwich Historical Society
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Interstate 93 Improvements from Salem to Manchester, Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties
Author: A Handbook of Stone Structures in Northeastern United States
Author: Mary Elaine GagePublisher: Powwow River Books
ISBN: 0981614108
Category : Building, Stone
Languages : en
Pages : 83
Book Description
This handbook is the first comprehensive field guide to both agricultural and Native American stone structures found throughout northeastern United States. These stone structures include stone cairns, chambers, standing stones, niches, enclosures, stone walls, foundations, wells, pedestal boulders, Manitou stones, and other structures. The handbook provides the means to identify, document, analyze, and interpret these structures.
Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States
Author: Glenn SchererPublisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 9780811726665
Category : Appalachian Trail
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Explores the Appalachian Trail through Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
NH-101 Improvements, Dublin to Harrisville
Author: Train Time
Author: John R. StilgoePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813930502
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Unlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and particular regions. Yet few Americans pay attention to rail lines, even though millions of them live in an economy and culture "waiting for the train." In Train Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape, John R. Stilgoe picks up where his acclaimed work Metropolitan Corridor left off, carrying his ideas about the spatial consequences of railways up to the present moment. Arguing that the train is returning, "an economic and cultural tsunami about to transform the United States," Stilgoe posits a future for railways as powerful shapers of American life. Divided into sections that focus on particular aspects of the impending impact of railroads on the landscape, Train Time moves seamlessly between historical and contemporary analysis. From his reading of what prompted investors to reorient their thinking about the railroad industry in the late 1970s, to his exploration of creative solutions to transportation problems and land use planning and development in the present, Stilgoe expands our perspective of an industry normally associated with bad news. Urging us that "the magic moment is now," he observes, "Now a train is often only a whistle heard far off on a sleepless night. But romantic or foreboding or empowering, the whistle announces return and change to those who listen." For scholars with an interest in American history in general and railroad and transit history in particular, as well as general readers concerned about the future of transportation in the United States, Train Time is an engaging look at the future of our railroads.