The Old Eagle Nester
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The Old Eagle Nester
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Author : Doris West Brooks
language : en
Publisher: Black Dome Press
Release Date : 1992
The Old Eagle Nester written by Doris West Brooks and has been published by Black Dome Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with History categories.
Possessions
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Author : Judith RICHARDSON
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
Possessions written by Judith RICHARDSON and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The cultural landscape of the Hudson River Valley is crowded with ghosts--the ghosts of Native Americans and Dutch colonists, of Revolutionary War soldiers and spies, of presidents, slaves, priests, and laborers. Possessions asks why this region just outside New York City became the locus for so many ghostly tales, and shows how these hauntings came to operate as a peculiar type of social memory whereby things lost, forgotten, or marginalized returned to claim possession of imaginations and territories. Reading Washington Irving's stories along with a diverse array of narratives from local folklore and regional writings, Judith Richardson explores the causes and consequences of Hudson Valley hauntings to reveal how ghosts both evolve from specific historical contexts and are conjured to serve the present needs of those they haunt. These tales of haunting, Richardson argues, are no mere echoes of the past but function in an ongoing, contentious politics of place. Through its tight geographical focus, Possessions illuminates problems of belonging and possessing that haunt the nation as a whole. Table of Contents: Introduction 1. "How Comes theHudson to this Unique Heritage?" 2. Irving's Web 3. The Colorful Career of a Ghost from Leeds 4. Local Characters 5. Possessing High Tor Mountain Epilogue: Hauntings without End Notes Index Reviews of this book: The author traces changing versions of several ghostly tales that mutated over time to reflect local conditions and controversies as well as national political issues like abolitionism. Richardson shows that, thanks to the Hudson Valley's long history of settlement, the 'legendizing impetus' created by Washington Irving, and the area's established position as a tourist destination, it inspired at least three sometimes overlapping traditions of hauntings: the 'aboriginal' Dutch and Indian hauntings, the Revolutionary War hauntings, and industrial hauntings, which are traced in Maxwell Anderson's High Tor (1937) and T. Coraghessan Boyle's World's End (1987). --J. J. Benardete, Choice Possessions is a rare and brilliant book that seamlessly combines history and literature--revealing how richly they can support one another. It is a great pleasure to read: both fluent and profound. --Alan Taylor, author of American Colonies and William Cooper's Town This is a lively, well-written, and engaging interdisciplinary study. Richardson pursues two main goals: probing in considerable detail a body of early national folklore and its modern revivals and testing some more general notions about the uses to which such lore is put in the periods when it is recovered, reshaped, and reinvigorated. It is smart without being condescending, locally inflected without exhibiting the least bit of piety - and, I think, quite suggestive for scholars looking at other domains far beyond the Hudson Valley. She gives us a way of understanding how the "local" has figured in the cultural construction of Americanness. --Wayne Franklin, author of Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers and The New World of James Fenimore Cooper
Diamond Street
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Author : Bruce Edward Hall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Diamond Street written by Bruce Edward Hall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Hudson (N.Y.) categories.
This is the astonishing illicit history of Hudson, New York, which for many years was the unlikely setting for a world of prostitution, gambling, murder, and government corruption?with more than a touch of the Keystone Kops thrown in. In the century or so before 1950, Hudson was famous as a shopping center of vice. There were at least two major illegal horse rooms, a big-stakes floating crap game, and as many as fifteen houses of ill repute. Meanwhile, the church suppers took place and the parades marched up and down as Hudson's respectable citizenry convinced themselves that there was nothing out of the ordinary in this town described as, ?ten streets wide and ten streets deep... a Norman Rockwell painting in motion.?
The Greene County Catskills
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Author : Field Horne
language : en
Publisher: Black Dome Press
Release Date : 1994
The Greene County Catskills written by Field Horne and has been published by Black Dome Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
The Huckleberry Pickers
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Author : Marc B. Fried
language : en
Publisher: Black Dome Press
Release Date : 1998
The Huckleberry Pickers written by Marc B. Fried and has been published by Black Dome Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Agricultural laborers categories.
Tongass National Forest N F North Sea Otter Sound Area Analysis
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Tongass National Forest N F North Sea Otter Sound Area Analysis written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with categories.
How To Sit On The Throne Of The Godless God Of The Seventh Day
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Author : Venerable Zen Master Vajra Karuna
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2020-06-17
How To Sit On The Throne Of The Godless God Of The Seventh Day written by Venerable Zen Master Vajra Karuna and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-17 with Religion categories.
Perhaps you’ve thought that the traditional ways of understanding God are lacking in resonance and relevance—that there must be more to the concept of divinity than the anthropomorphic, gender-exclusionary, ethically and logically problematic God of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. If so, this beautiful book may be the path to enlightenment that you’ve been seeking. Uthimaniyya, or Trans-Sufism, embraces the idea that there is an ultimate spiritual experience, called The Consciousness of the Eternal Now, or Sitting on the Throne of God. This experience is not dependent on any past religion—instead, it is realized through observing a mathematically mystical version of the Seventh Day (the Throne Sabbath) that is more compatible with a belief in God as everything, and everything as God. Since a God that is everything cannot have a personhood, it is referred to as the impersonal God, or the Godless God. The Throne Sabbath is based on a radical reinterpretation of the biblical and qur’anic myth of the creation of the world in six days, and a seventh day when the Creator rested (Bible) or retreated to His throne (Qur’an). Inspiring and transcendent, How to Sit on the Throne of the Godless God is the guide you need to access a new viewpoint.
Contemporary Authors
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Author : Scot Peacock
language : en
Publisher: Contemporary Authors New Revis
Release Date : 2002-02
Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and has been published by Contemporary Authors New Revis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors® New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the world's most-popular authors. These exciting and unique author profiles are essential to your holdings because sketches are entirely revised and up-to-date, and completely replace the original Contemporary Authors® entries. For your convenience, a soft-cover cumulative index is sent biannually.While Gale strives to replicate print content, some content may not be available due to rights restrictions.Call your Sales Rep for details.
Proceedings Of The New York State Historical Association With The Quarterly Journal
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Author : New York State Historical Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Proceedings Of The New York State Historical Association With The Quarterly Journal written by New York State Historical Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with New York (State) categories.
New York History
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Author : New York State Historical Association
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
New York History written by New York State Historical Association and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with New York (State) categories.