Chesapeake Reflections
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Chesapeake Reflections
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Author : J H Hall
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-15
Chesapeake Reflections written by J H Hall and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-15 with History categories.
One man celebrates and laments his family’s connection to a disappearing paradise of natural wildlife and beauty on the shores of Chesapeake Bay. Between the Indian and Dividing Creeks, near the mouth of the Rappahannock River in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay, sits a parcel of land called Bluff Point. Like most bay-front villages, the bountiful resources and majestic landscape of this area that once sustained watermen and sportsmen alike have been depleted as over-harvesting, poaching, pollution and continued development have taken their toll, threatening the very legacy of its people. J. H. Hall’s family first settled on this land shortly after the Civil War, where they maintained a tradition of farming, fishing and crabbing throughout the twentieth century. Hall’s words flow as splendidly as the tides in this collection of personal reminisces and local and natural history honoring the lives of the watermen before him and the uncertainty surrounding those today.
Chesapeake Reflections
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Author : Ken Carter
language : en
Publisher: Amantha Pub
Release Date : 1991-01-01
Chesapeake Reflections written by Ken Carter and has been published by Amantha Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-01 with History categories.
In the summer of 1990 the author sailed his schooner "Delphina" from the Florida Keys to the Chesapeake Bay. On his boat & bicycle, he visited over 25 areas, including remote communities where visitors seldom travel. From the first page of this entertaining book, the reader will feel like a welcome guest aboard "Delphina". Written in an easy style & full of humor, CHESAPEAKE REFLECTIONS is rich in interesting historical details of the towns & cities he visited in Maryland & Virginia. The warmth & friendliness of the Bay-area residents he met shine through the many conversations recounted in the book's lovely dialogue & leave the reader wanting to meet them personally. As the title implies, the author also gives the reader thoughts to consider as the journey progresses. Chesapeake Bay shares characteristics with other areas of our diverse environment & the reader is led to reflect on some of these parallels. CHESAPEAKE REFLECTIONS will be enjoyed by armchair travelers, boaters, cyclists, tourists & all those who would like to take a different look at Chesapeake Bay. The journey in the book is not the typical trip in a travelogue, but rather a trip of discovery full of amusing surprises.
Stretching The Eyes Distance
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Author : Barclay Sheaks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Stretching The Eyes Distance written by Barclay Sheaks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Poetry categories.
The Chesapeake Book Of The Dead
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Author : Helen Chappell
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 1999-05-11
The Chesapeake Book Of The Dead written by Helen Chappell and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-11 with History categories.
"There is a romantic, nostalgic, pleasantly melancholy feeling to old cemeteries that is hard to define but easy to experience. Perhaps it is because we can feel the direct link to our past that no history book, no movie, no historical fantasy can ever convey. These stones and these unkempt grounds are the hard evidence of lives that came before us. Once, these people lived and breathed, loved, worked, fought, hoped and despaired, and experienced their triumphs and failures just as we do today. And, although we seldom care to acknowledge it, we will inevitably go where they have gone."--from the Preface For the many people who enjoy walking through old cemeteries, exploring forgotten and overgrown graveyards, and reading the names, dates, and epitaphs of the dead, the Chesapeake Bay region offers a rich assortment of final resting places, many dating back to the early 1600s. From Williamsburg to Havre de Grace, it is not uncommon to see a number of the living wandering among the markers of the dead. Some are genealogists and historians, others come in search of quietude and a tangible connection to the past. In The Chesapeake Book of the Dead, Helen Chappell and photographer Starke Jett survey this rich legacy, from the vast and imposing Arlington National Cemetery to lone graves so modest as to have been lost almost as soon as they were dug. Chappell and Jett visit graveyards of the famous and the obscure, wander through cemeteries dotted with both elaborate funerary and simple, weather-beaten headstones, and discover epitaphs that range from the literary to the amusing to the poignant. As old grave sites disappear under developers' bulldozers, through neglect, and at the hands of unscrupulous headstone collectors, this remarkable book offers a unique and elegiac look at our past and its tales of love and tragedy. Among the cemeteries explored are Southeast Washington's Congressional Cemetery (posthumous home to composer John Philip Sousa, FBI head J. Edgar Hoover, pioneering feminist and muckraking journalist Anne Royall, and Choctaw chief and notable military tactician Pushmataha); Baltimore's Green Mount Cemetery (built in the 1830s as Baltimore's first sylvan graveyard); and Westminster Burying Ground in downtown Baltimore. At Westminster lies the grave of Edgar Allan Poe, which a mysterious figure visits each year on Poe's birthday to leave roses and a bottle of brandy. The book also describes the final resting places for such celebrities as Dorothy Parker (Chappell located her ashes at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore), F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald (buried in Rockville at Scott's wish, because, he insisted, "I belong here," in Maryland, "where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite"), and cosmopolitan actress Tallulah Bankhead (interred in a plot her sister provided near Chestertown). Included throughout this fascinating book are essays on mourning fashion and deathbed performances, graveyard ghost stories, discussions of efforts to save historic cemeteries, and notes from the diary of a nineteenth-century doctor who today is buried in Rising Sun Cemetery alongside many of his patients. Chappell's lively prose, accompanied by Jett's haunting black-and-white photographs, will delight all those drawn to the seclusion, peacefulness, and melancholy of old graveyards. Jacket illustration: Lower Hooper's Island, Maryland
Harboring Secrets
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Author : Greg Lilly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-08
Harboring Secrets written by Greg Lilly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08 with Literary Collections categories.
Poignant, funny, thought-provoking, frightening, or enlightening, the literary pieces created for the 20th Anniversary of the Chesapeake Bay Writers club's anthology will entertain. This anthology highlights established writers along with up & coming writers. We present fiction, personal essays, and poetry based around the Chesapeake Bay region of Virginia, while shining light on hidden secrets. In his introduction to the anthology, New York Times best-seller John Gilstrap writes about the Power of Secrets. "Who among us would not go to great lengths to prevent the revelation of at least one secret in our own lives? Our secrets define us, allow us to shape for others the image that we want them to see, projecting our strengths and sheltering our weaknesses." Open the book, settle by the riverbank or the bay shore, and discover the secrets harbored by the Chesapeake Bay Writers.
Bay Country
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Author : Tom Horton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Bay Country written by Tom Horton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
A rare combination of insight and infectious good humor mark this poetical collection of land, water, people, and nature. In the traditon of great naturalists, Horton sees the landscape as a departure point from which to explore the universe.
Early Modern Virginia
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Author : Douglas Bradburn
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Early Modern Virginia written by Douglas Bradburn and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with History categories.
This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond. The contributors represent some of the best of a younger generation of scholars who are building on, but also criticizing and moving beyond, the work of the so-called Chesapeake School of social history that dominated the historiography of the region in the 1970s and 1980s. Employing a variety of methodologies, analytical strategies, and types of evidence, these essays explore a wide range of topics and offer a fresh look at the early religious, political, economic, social, and intellectual life of the colony. Contributors Douglas Bradburn, Binghamton University, State University of New York * John C. Coombs, Hampden-Sydney College * Victor Enthoven, Netherlands Defense Academy * Alexander B. Haskell, University of California Riverside * Wim Klooster, Clark University * Philip Levy, University of South Florida * Philip D. Morgan, Johns Hopkins University * William A. Pettigrew, University of Kent * Edward DuBois Ragan, Valentine Richmond History Center * Terri L. Snyder, California State University, Fullerton * Camilla Townsend, Rutgers University * Lorena S. Walsh, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Ireland In The Virginian Sea
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Author : Audrey Horning
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Ireland In The Virginian Sea written by Audrey Horning and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with History categories.
In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting their close interconnection as fields for colonial experimentation. Focusing on the Ulster Plantation in the north of Ireland and the Jamestown settlement in the Chesapeake, she challenges the notion that Ireland merely served as a testing ground for British expansion into North America. Horning instead analyzes the people, financial networks, and information that circulated through and connected English plantations on either side of the Atlantic. In addition, Horning explores English colonialism from the perspective of the Gaelic Irish and Algonquian societies and traces the political and material impact of contact. The focus on the material culture of both locales yields a textured specificity to the complex relationships between natives and newcomers while exposing the lack of a determining vision or organization in early English colonial projects.
Black Townsmen
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Author : M. Dantas
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2008-03-17
Black Townsmen written by M. Dantas and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-17 with History categories.
This book is an innovative comparative study of persons of African origin and descent in two urban environments of the early modern Atlantic world. The author follows these men and women illustrating how their choices and actions placed them at the foreground of the development of Atlantic urban slavery and emancipation.
From British Peasants To Colonial American Farmers
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Author : Allan Kulikoff
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2014-02-01
From British Peasants To Colonial American Farmers written by Allan Kulikoff and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-01 with History categories.
With this book, Allan Kulikoff offers a sweeping new interpretation of the origins and development of the small farm economy in Britain's mainland American colonies. Examining the lives of farmers and their families, he tells the story of immigration to the colonies, traces patterns of settlement, analyzes the growth of markets, and assesses the impact of the Revolution on small farm society. Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity.