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Home Town
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Author : Tracy Kidder
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2012-09-05
Home Town written by Tracy Kidder and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-05 with Social Science categories.
In this splendid book, one of America's masters of nonfiction takes us home--into Hometown, U.S.A., the town of Northampton, Massachusetts, and into the extraordinary, and the ordinary, lives that people live there. As Tracy Kidder reveals how, beneath its amiable surface, a small town is a place of startling complexity, he also explores what it takes to make a modern small city a success story. Weaving together compelling stories of individual lives, delving into a rich and varied past, moving among all the levels of Northampton's social hierarchy, Kidder reveals the sheer abundance of life contained within a town's narrow boundaries. Does the kind of small town that many Americans came from, and long for, still exist? Kidder says yes, although not quite in the form we may imagine. A book about civilization in microcosm, Home Town makes us marvel afresh at the wonder of individuality, creativity, and civic order--how a disparate group of individuals can find common cause and a code of values that transforms a place into a home. And this book makes you feel you live there.
Home Town
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Author : Tracy Kidder
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2000-05
Home Town written by Tracy Kidder and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-05 with Social Science categories.
Describes the everyday workings of a seemingly typical American hometown and reveals the complex drama behind the lives of its residents.
Mommy S Hometown
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Author : Hope Lim
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date : 2022-04-12
Mommy S Hometown written by Hope Lim and has been published by Candlewick Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-12 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
When a young boy and his mother travel overseas to her childhood home in Korea, the town is not as he imagined. Will he be able to see it the way Mommy does? This gentle, contemplative picture book about family origins invites us to ponder the meaning of home. A young boy loves listening to his mother describe the place where she grew up, a world of tall mountains and friends splashing together in the river. Mommy’s stories have let the boy visit her homeland in his thoughts and dreams, and now he’s old enough to travel with her to see it for himself. But when mother and son arrive, the town is not as he imagined. Skyscrapers block the mountains, and crowds hurry past. The boy feels like an outsider—until they visit the river where his mother used to play, and he sees that the spirit and happiness of those days remain. Sensitively pitched to a child’s-eye view, this vivid story honors the immigrant experience and the timeless bond between parent and child, past and present.
Hometown
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Author : Gil Herkimer
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2013-06-21
Hometown written by Gil Herkimer and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-21 with Fiction categories.
Hometown was a small rural Upstate New York town, population about 3,000 to 4,000 people, 12,000 to 15,000 milk cows, and three creameries . The author, Gil Herkimer, like this books leading character, Bill Stevens, was born in the Hometown area composed of at least five or six upstate New York villages and towns , and lived there all of his early life there, except for the four years which he, too, had spent in the U. S. Navy during World War II. The authors main purpose for writing this book is to encourage readers to help in the development of a strong two-party political system in areas wheres only a one-party rule as it was in Hometown during the early 1960's.
Home Town
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Author : Sherwood Anderson
language : en
Publisher: P. P. Appel
Release Date : 1975
Home Town written by Sherwood Anderson and has been published by P. P. Appel this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with History categories.
Old Home Town
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Author : Rose Wilder Lane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1935
Old Home Town written by Rose Wilder Lane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1935 with categories.
Hometown Texas
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-07
Hometown Texas written by and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Photography categories.
Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections—East, West, North, South, and Central—three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the “collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique.” Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.
Home Town News
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Author : Sally Foreman Griffith
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1989-01-05
Home Town News written by Sally Foreman Griffith and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-05 with History categories.
In 1895, a 27-year-old journalist named William Allen White returned to his home town of Emporia, Kansas, to edit a little down-at-the-heels newspaper he had just purchased for $3,000. "The new editor," he wrote in his first editorial, "hopes to live here until he is the old editor, until some of the visions which rise before him as he dreams shall have come true." White did become "the old editor," remaining with the Emporia Gazette until his death 50 years later. During his long tenure he gained nation-wide fame as an author, political leader, and social commentator. But more than anything else, he became the national embodiment of the small-town newspaperman and all the treasured virtues that small towns represented in the minds of Americans. Home Town News is both a fascinating biography and a compelling social history. As Sally Foreman Griffith shows, White's popular image--kindly yet crusading, fiercely independent yet deeply rooted in his community--doesn't do justice to the man's complexity. Shrewdly carving out a position of leadership in a faction-torn town, White carefully shaped his paper's vision of its community to promote local economic growth, Republican political control, and social harmony. With his emergence as a leader among Midwestern progressives, he carefully adapted the ideas and rhetoric of small-town boosterism to changing economic realities. The book uses White's career to help us understand the role of journalism--and the journalist--in turn-of-the-century American culture. Far from being a simple chronicler of daily events, the small-town newspaperman carried considerable weight in his community. He was a leading force in local business, a galvanizing influence in civic life, and a key political activist. As giant corporations came to dominate the national economy, the newspaperman played a pivotal yet ambivalent role in the resulting social transformation: he sought to preserve local autonomy even as his paper introduced his readers to mass-produced consumer goods. Home Town News also tells the story of Emporia, Kansas, during this period of social change. Its richly textured descriptions of small-town life take us beyond abstractions like "modernization," "progressivism," and "boosterism." As we observe the Emporia Street Fair of 1899, the heated controversy over the morality of a local doctor in 1902, and the elaborate campaign to build a Y.M.C.A. in 1914, we gain new insights into the processes that have shaped modern America.
Manual For The Preparation Of Army Home Town News Material U S Army Home Town News Center Kansas City Missouri October 20 1960
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Author : United States. Army Department
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Manual For The Preparation Of Army Home Town News Material U S Army Home Town News Center Kansas City Missouri October 20 1960 written by United States. Army Department and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with categories.
His Own Home Town
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Author : Larry Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
His Own Home Town written by Larry Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with categories.