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Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here
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Author : Richard Benyo
language : en
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Release Date : 2008
Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here written by Richard Benyo and has been published by University of Scranton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Boys categories.
Jim Thorp never slept in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, the town formerly known as Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk. But through a combination of ambition, necessity, and sheer luck, these small towns became the final resting place of the great American Indian Olympic champion and in 1954 they legally changed their name to permanently commemorate his burial. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here, a treasury of tales from a 1950s boyhood in a town surrounded by the mountains of the Pennsylvania anthracite coal region, is a passport to a lost land of childhood adventure, featuring an ancient river, old mine shafts, canal locks, hobos camps, the remains of millionaires' mansions--and the hilarious antics of Richard Benyo and his buddies in the South Street Gang. This memoir brings the 1950s alive--just as The Little Rascals did for the Depression--with its renderings of afternoons spent with baseball cards, cardboard forts, BB guns, playground bullying. and that first illicit sip of beer. Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here is a memorable, nostalgic account of all the trials, tribulations, and the rites of passage of growing up in post-war America.
Jim Thorpe Made Us All Olympians
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Author : Richard Benyo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-12
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What is it about high school? When you consider that high school comes at exactly the time teens are about to erupt from a combination of physical growth spurts, hormonal tension stretched like pulled taffy, psychological confusion and misdirection, and major ineptitudes in all phases of life, mashing them together in a confined space for seven or eight hours a day is just asking for trouble. Yet for more than a century, that's the formula that's been used. Richard Benyo, author of Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here, childhood memoirs from the 1950s in East Mauch Chunk and later Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, graduates into Jim Thorpe Senior High School, and the disasters just start to pile up.
The South Street Gang Goes Downhill Fast
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Author : Richard Benyo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-02-20
The South Street Gang Goes Downhill Fast written by Richard Benyo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with categories.
It's 1956 in eastern Pennsylvania and Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk are about to join to become Jim Thorpe, PA. As part of the July 4 celebration, a soapbox derby race is scheduled for the always-dangerous Fisher's Hill. The South Street Gang gets to work on their racer, only to have it destroyed by the competition. They regroup and create a unique entry with which they hope to go up agains the richest kid in town. In typical fashion, nothing goes exactly as the gang hopes.
Leap Of Faith Other Tales From The Pennsylvania Coal Region
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Author : Richard Benyo
language : en
Publisher: University of Scranton Press
Release Date : 2009
Leap Of Faith Other Tales From The Pennsylvania Coal Region written by Richard Benyo and has been published by University of Scranton Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Boys categories.
Eastern Pennsylvania during the 1950s: King Coal has been dethroned, the railroads are all but defunct, and the region is in an economic depression. Fathers are forced to commute many miles to work, while at home the kids know no other pastime but to run wild in the woods. From the same author who intrigued readers with his whimsical stories of childhood in Jim Thorpe Never Slept Here comes an all-new batch of coming-of-age tales in Leap of Faith. In these eight stories, the adults are often offstage, leaving the children to make up the rules as they go. From the story of an unrepentant bully who gets more than he deserves to the tale of a boy who finds serenity in short bursts of flight, Richard Benyo captures a time and a place where small triumphs are enormous, where the strong rule and the swift survive, and where the outside world--beyond the mountains that enclose Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania--seldom intrudes.
Jim Thorpe Original All American
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Author : Joseph Bruchac
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-10-02
Jim Thorpe Original All American written by Joseph Bruchac and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-02 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Jim Thorpe was one of the greatest athletes who ever lived. He played professional football, Major League Baseball, and won Olympic gold medals in track & field. But his life wasn’t an easy one. Born on the Sac and Fox Reservation in 1887, he encountered much family tragedy, and was sent as a young boy to various Indian boarding schools—strict, cold institutions that didn’t allow their students to hold on to their Native American languages and traditions. Jim ran away from school many times, until he found his calling at Pennsylvania’s Carlisle Indian School. There, the now-legendary coach Pop Warner recognized Jim’s athletic excellence and welcomed him onto the football and track teams. Focusing on Jim Thorpe’s years at Carlisle, this book brings his early athletic career—and especially his college football days—to life, while also dispelling some myths about him and movingly depicting the Native American experience at the turn of the twentieth century. This is a book for history buffs as well as sports fans—an illuminating and lively read about a truly great American.
Pennsylvania Heritage
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Pennsylvania Heritage written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Pennsylvania categories.
I Will Never Forget
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Author : Brent P. Kelley
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2003-01-01
I Will Never Forget written by Brent P. Kelley and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with Sports & Recreation categories.
This book continues the riches of two highly praised previous volumes, Voices from the Negro Leagues interesting...solid--MultiCultural Review) and The Negro Leagues Revisited (wonderful--Booklist/RBB; voluminous...top-notch--Public Library Quarterly). The players interviewed in this new book of interviews are Bill Bethea, John Scoop Brown, Paul Casanova, Jim Colzie, Bunny Davis, Ross Davis, Clifford DuBose, Lionel Evelyn, Hubert Glenn, Herald Beebop Gordon, Raymond Haggins, J.C. Hartman, Joe Henry, Carl Holden, Vernell Jackson, Clarence Jenkins, Ernest Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Marvin Jones, Ezell King, Willie Lee, Larry LeGrande, William Little, Nathaniel McClinic, John Mitchell, Grady Montgomery, Bob Motley, Charley Pride, Mack Pride, Bill Sonny Randall, Henry Saverson, Eugene Scruggs, Willie Sheelor, Sam Taylor, Ron Teasley, James Way, Sam Williams, Walter Williams, and Willie Young. Photographs of the players and their teammates and complete-as-possible statistics supplement the interviews.
Jim Thorpe
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Author : Edward F. Rivinus
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback
Release Date : 1992-01-01
Jim Thorpe written by Edward F. Rivinus and has been published by Turtleback this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-01-01 with categories.
Profile of the Native-American leader and athlete.
Run Rabbit Run
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Author : Walter "Rabbit" Maranville
language : en
Publisher: SABR, Inc.
Release Date : 2012-02
Run Rabbit Run written by Walter "Rabbit" Maranville and has been published by SABR, Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02 with History categories.
Run, Rabbit, Run is the unfinished autobiography of Hall of Fame infielder Walter "Rabbit" Maranville - one of baseball's all-time funny characters. He was a star shortstop on the "Miracle" Boston Braves' world championship team of 1914 and, despite his 5-foot-5 stature and weak bat, sometimes served as the team's cleanup hitter in those Deadball Era days. He did compile 2,605 career hits, but it was his stellar defensive play that kept him in the major leagues for 23 colorful seasons with the Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Brooklyn Dodgers and Chicago Cubs.At the urging of his daughter and sports writer Max Kase, Maranville put down on paper his collection of amusing anecdotes a year before his death in 1954, just weeks before his election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. For decades, the stories were virtually unread until Dallas and Ralph Graber discovered the manuscript and brought it to SABR for resurrection. SABR originally published Run, Rabbit, Run in 1991 as a benefit for members, with an introduction by famed baseball historian Dr. Harold Seymour and a biographical essay on Maranville by Bob Carroll. The text and photographs in this newly published edition of Run, Rabbit, Run remain unchanged.
City That Never Sleeps
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Author : Murray Pomerance
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2007-05-01
City That Never Sleeps written by Murray Pomerance and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-01 with Performing Arts categories.
New York, more than any other city, has held a special fascination for filmmakers and viewers. In every decade of Hollywood filmmaking, artists of the screen have fixated upon this fascinating place for its tensions and promises, dazzling illumination and fearsome darkness. The glittering skyscrapers of such films as On the Town have shadowed the characteristic seedy streets in which desperate, passionate stories have played out-as in Scandal Sheet and The Pawnbroker. In other films, the city is a cauldron of bright lights, technology, empire, egotism, fear, hunger, and change--the scenic epitome of America in the modern age. From Street Scene and Breakfast at Tiffany's to Rosemary's Baby, The Warriors, and 25th Hour, the sixteen essays in this book explore the cinematic representation of New York as a city of experience, as a locus of ideographic characters and spaces, as a city of moves and traps, and as a site of allurement and danger. Contributors consider the work of Woody Allen, Blake Edwards, Alfred Hitchcock, Gregory La Cava, Spike Lee, Sidney Lumet, Vincente Minnelli, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Andy Warhol, and numerous others.