Growing Up In A Pennsylvania Steel Town
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Growing Up In A Pennsylvania Steel Town
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Author : Edward Nebinger
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2012-10-01
Growing Up In A Pennsylvania Steel Town written by Edward Nebinger and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-01 with History categories.
The author was inspired to write these memoirs of the years he spent growing up in the Pennsylvania steel town of Bethlehem before the Second World War by the realization that they were a pivotal time in American history. While Americans were struggling with the economic hardships of the Great Depression, they never gave up and instead made the best of what they had. Out of their triumph over hardship grew the generation that fought and won the Second World War. The society and culture exemplified by the Pennsylvania steel towns has now vanished but it is hard not to think that, while we have gained much as a society, we have also lost far too many things worthy of preservation. One of these was the great Bethlehem Steel plant itself, the ruins of which stretch for miles along the Lehigh River. Dominating the ruins are the ghostly remains of the five great blast furnaces, preserved to remind people of the greatness that was once Bethlehem Steel and the community that lived in its shadows.
All We Really Needed
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Author : Lois R. Allen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-08
All We Really Needed written by Lois R. Allen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08 with Depressions categories.
Memories Of Donora
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Author : Sidney Mishkin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Memories Of Donora written by Sidney Mishkin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Donora (Pa.) categories.
Growing Up In Mister Rogers Real Neighborhood
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Author : Chris Rodell
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Growing Up In Mister Rogers Real Neighborhood written by Chris Rodell and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In a world that cries out for civility and healing, this is the only book about Mister Rogers' Neighborhood by an author who actually calls the place home. Known for his joyful humor, author Chris Rodell tells the story of how Latrobe influenced a young Fred Rogers, how the adult Fred Rogers influenced Latrobe and how both combined to influence him and the world. It relates how visionary educators are beginning to equate Mister Rogers with spiritual leaders like Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. It tells the stories of couples he married, souls he saved and asks if calling him "Christ-like" is blasphemous or accurate. It has previously untold stories of Rogers being a life-saving superhero and of him being perfectly human. Governor Tom Ridge in his admiring foreword says: "Rodell writes about Latrobe and its native son the way Sinatra sings about New York, unflinching about the gritty realities, but with abiding affection and relentless positivity about the future." In the end, the book is about how we can turn the entire planet into Mister Rogers' Neighborhood beginning inside our very own hearts.
Donora Death Fog
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Author : Andy McPhee
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Release Date : 2023-03-28
Donora Death Fog written by Andy McPhee and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-28 with History categories.
With a foreword by Jennifer Richmond-Bryant In October 1948, a seemingly average fog descended on the tiny mill town of Donora, Pennsylvania. With a population of fewer than fifteen thousand, the town’s main industry was steel and zinc mills—mills that continually emitted pollutants into the air. The six-day smog event left twenty-one people dead and thousands sick. Even after the fog lifted, hundreds more died or were left with lingering health problems. Donora Death Fog details how six fateful days in Donora led to the nation’s first clean air act in 1955, and how such catastrophes can lead to successful policy change. Andy McPhee tells the very human story behind this ecological disaster: how wealthy industrialists built the mills to supply an ever-growing America; how the town’s residents—millworkers and their families—willfully ignored the danger of the mills’ emissions; and how the gradual closing of the mills over the years following the tragedy took its toll on the town.
Lady Doreen
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Author : Edward M Nebinger
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-04-22
Lady Doreen written by Edward M Nebinger and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-22 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, solved the problem for a lot of American kids who wanted to be Army pilots but didn't meet the two years of college requirement for acceptance into the aviation cadet program. In mid-1942, under wartime pressures, the Army Air Corps dropped that requirement and made an exception for applicants who could pass a stiff written test. As the result of that momentous change, many high school kids soon found themselves sporting second lieutenant bars and flying fighters with 2,000-horsepower engines - before they reached their 21st birthdays! A group of those very young men came together from both the East and West Coasts of the U.S. when they were assigned to the 360th Fighter Squadron with the 8th Air Force in England to take part in the invasion and the critical air battles over Germany during 1944-45. They began flying combat missions in Republic P-47 "Thunderbolts," but in late 1944 switched to flying North American P-51 "Mustangs." Most of them had their high school sweethearts, but as healthy young officers wearing a pair of wings they soon found new romance, not only in the skies they flew but with crops of eager young girls who found these handpicked and glamorous pilots to be of special interest. Under wartime stress, romances were quick to bloom and promises hastily made. But the war had a way of changing people, as high school kids quickly grew into men with deeper values and an understanding of what life is really about. This is the story of some of those wartime romances that blossomed within the cauldron of war - some to flare brightly and flicker out, while others lived on.
To Barbary S Far Shore
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Author : Michael J Kozlowski
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2013-11-15
To Barbary S Far Shore written by Michael J Kozlowski and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-11-15 with History categories.
In 1804, the crew of the frigate Philadelphia were being held hostage by the Bey of Tripoli. While diplomatic efforts to free them remained deadlocked, William Eaton came up with an outrageous and impossible plan to free them Eight Marines under the command of Lieutenant Presley O'Bannin made that plan work. They marched across hundreds of miles of hostile desert, attacked a fortress garrisoned by many times their number and took it. Their achievements were so remarkable that they thoroughly unnerved the Bey and forced him to release the Philadelphia prisoners. And so was the reputation of the U.S. Marine Corps established
Notes The Psychic Dislocations Of Dayton Lummis
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Author : Dayton Lummis
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2011-09-09
Notes The Psychic Dislocations Of Dayton Lummis written by Dayton Lummis and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is just what it says it is—NOTES! Assembled from the author's collection of the last 40 years. Ranging from politically incorrect to absurdly romantic to disturbingly insightful, they are like darts thrown blindfolded; they hit what they will. From coast to coast, city to high mountains and lonely desert, almost no subject of contemporary America is left untouched. You may not agree, but you will not be bored.
Diary Of A First Street Rambler
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Author : Ralph E. Stone
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2014-12-03
Diary Of A First Street Rambler written by Ralph E. Stone and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
It was a time before television sets, Big Macs, video games, and Harry Potter. The Japanese had bombed our naval base at Pearl Harbor. Older brothers, uncles and even fathers were drafted into the Armed Forces. Gene Autry was busy riding the range. Batman and Robin kept our cities safe, and Tarzan swung from vines in a jungle habitat. The magic of radio kept imaginative minds occupied with the adventures of Superman and the Lone Ranger. In spite of the hardships of World War II, it was a marvelous adventure to be a boy growing up in a multicultural Pennsylvania steel town. Join Ralphie and his First Street Rambler teammates Heads Pinasko, Half-Pint Hayes, Jonesy. and Jay Boy Husher in their adventures as they built their own ball fields, swam in sulfur creeks, raided cherry trees and cabbage patches, shined shoes on street corners, and made their own sling shots, go carts and rubber band guns! If you lived during that era, you will find joy in revisiting a past which has long disappeared. If you missed out on those cherished years of a bygone era, you are in for a delightful history lesson!
Monumental Lies
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Author : Ronald M. James
language : en
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Release Date : 2023-09-19
Monumental Lies written by Ronald M. James and has been published by University of Nevada Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with Fiction categories.
A playful embrace of tall tales and exaggeration, Monumental Lies explores the evolution of folklore in the Wild West. Monumental Lies: Early Nevada Folklore of the Wild West invites readers to explore how legends and traditions emerged during the first decades following the “Rush to Washoe,” which transformed the Nevada Territory after in 1859. During this Wild West period, there was widespread celebration of deceit, manifesting in tall tales, burlesque lies, practical jokes, and journalistic hoaxes. Humor was central, and practitioners easily found themselves scorned if they failed to be adequately funny. The tens of thousands of people who came to the West, attracted by gold and silver mining, brought distinct cultural legacies. The interaction of diverse perspectives, even while new stories and traditions coalesced, was a complex process. Author Ronald M. James addresses how the fluidity of the region affected new expressions of folklore as they took root. The wildly popular Mark Twain is often a go-to source for collections of early tall tales of this region, but his interaction with local traditions was specific and narrow. More importantly, William Wright—publishing as Dan De Quille—arose as a key collector of legends, a counterpart of early European folklorists. With a bedrock understanding of what unfolded in the nineteenth century, James considers how these early stories helped shaped the culture of the Wild West.