[PDF] The Spirits Of Athens eBook

Author : Shane Black
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 2009-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1440177767

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The city of Athens is a picturesque, quintessential southern town in north central Alabama, full of folklore and history. The town may also have more ghost stories per capita than any other town in the South. This book collects, for the first time, the best ghost stories that Athens has to offer. You'll read about: * the frenzied spirits that beat on the windows of town square buildings in their attempt to escape an 1893 inferno; * the phantom grandfather clock in the George S. Houston Library and House that chimes but cannot be found; * the lonely ghost of Founders Hall whose lantern light travels from window to window as she searches for her lost love; * the forlorn spirit of the Vasser-Lovvorn Home whose recurring screams from the attic pierce the night; * the ghost child of the Donnell House who was frightened to death by Union soldiers during the Civil War invasion of the town; * and many more.

Author : Tracy L. Adkins
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 14,95 MB
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Ghosts
ISBN : 9781537498799

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Ghosts of Athens blends the historical with the haunted for more than thirty locations in the Classic City. First, the history of each location unfolds, then details are disclosed of creepy events that occurred there, including contemporary anecdotes, historical folklore, and tales told from one generation to the next. From humorous to heartwarming to hard-to-believe, these spooky tales are more than just Halloween fun. Join an excursion through the vibrant history of this colorful Southern town and meet the residents who can't seem to say goodbye. Join author and long-time Athens, Georgia resident Tracy Adkins on this tour of haunted locations in this Classic City. Stories include: Demosthenian Hall The Wedding Cake House Lustrat House Candler Hall The Stairway to Nowhere Waddel Hall The Morton Theatre The T.R.R.Cobb House The Foundry (Graduate Hotel) Fire Hall Number One The Ware-Lyndon House The Taylor-Grady House Memorial Park Old Athens Cemetery Oconee Hill Cemetery Arnocroft Bernstein Funeral Home Athens Ben Epps Airport Eagle Tavern And more...

Author : Shepard Krech
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 22,58 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0820328154

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Before the massive environmental change wrought by the European colonization of the South, hundreds of species of birds filled the region's flyways in immeasurable numbers. Before disease, war, and displacement altered the South's earliest human landscape, Native Americans hunted and ate birds and made tools and weapons from their beaks, bones, and talons. More significant to Shepard Krech III, Indians adorned themselves with feathers, invoked avian powers in ceremonies and dances, and incorporated bird imagery on pottery, carvings, and jewelry. Krech, a renowned authority on Native American interactions with nature, reveals as never before the omnipresence of birds in Native American life. From the time of the earliest known renderings of winged creatures in stone and earthworks through the nineteenth century, when Native southerners took part in decimating bird species with highly valued, fashionable plumage, Spirits of the Air examines the complex and changeable influences of birds on the Native American worldview. We learn of birds for which places and people were named; birds common in iconography and oral traditions; birds important in ritual and healing; and birds feared for their links to witches and other malevolent forces. Still other birds had no meaning for Native Americans. Krech shows us these invisible animals too, enriching our understanding of both the Indian-bird dynamic and the incredible diversity of winged life once found in the South. A crowning work drawing on Krech's distinguished career in anthropology and natural history, Spirits of the Air recovers vanished worlds and shows us our own anew.

Author : Sharon Hatfield
Publisher : Swallow Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 25,76 MB
Release : 2022-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804012393

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In a fascinating work of religious history and cultural inquiry, Hatfield brings to life the true story of a nineteenth-century farmer-spiritualist, Jonathan Koons, whom thousands traveled to Ohio to see. As heirs to the second Great Awakening, he and his followers were part of a larger, uniquely American moment that still marks the culture today.

Author : Bernard G. Weiss
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Law
ISBN : 0820328278

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Focuses on a Muslim legal science known in Arabic as usul al-fiqh. Whereas the kindred science of fiqh is concerned with the articulation of actual rules of law, this science attempts to elaborate the theoretical and methodological foundations of the law. It outlines the features of Muslim juristic thought.

Author : Alison Lurie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2002-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0142000450

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Alison Lurie, one of America's greatest novelists, has written a loving memoir of world-famous poet James Merrill and his longtime partner David Jackson. Drawing on her forty-year friendship with Merrill and Jackson, Lurie reveals the couple's deep involvement with ghosts, gods, and spirits, with whom they communicated through a Ouija board. Among the results of their intense twenty-year preoccupation with the occult is the brilliant book-length poem "The Changing Light at Sandover", which Merrill called his "chronicles of love and loss." Recalling Merrill and Jackson's life together in New York, Athens, and Key West, Familiar Spirits is a poignant memoir infused with great affection and generous amounts of Lurie's signature wit.

Author : Tracy Adkins
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,50 MB
Release : 2022-09-02
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In this collection of all-new tales from author Tracy L. Adkins, Ghosts of Athens and Beyond: History and Haunting of North Georgia blends the historical with the haunted for more than forty locations in Athens and North Georgia. Explore all-new locales and revisit the most haunted spots from her first book, Ghosts of Athens, places that have even more spine-tingling tales to tell. Uncover captivating historical details and tales of the supernatural, many of which are first-hand accounts told by the souls who experienced them. From humorous to heartwarming to hard-to-believe, these intriguing tales are more than just Halloween fun. Join this excursion through the vibrant history of North Georgia and meet the spirits who can't seem to say goodbye. Locations you'll visit include: Ashford Manor The R.E.M. Steeple The Oconee County Welcome Center Smithonia Plantation The Fitzpatrick Hotel Berry College The Stovall House Hardman Farm The Chastain-Brawley House The Old Pickens County Jail and more...

Author : Catherine Lower
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 2008-06-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0811740625

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Supernatural tales from Florida, a state rife with eerie occurrences and ghostly denizens.