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Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 17,11 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0762786337
The state of Vermont is illustrated through gorgeous photographs and evocative essays, showcasing 50 iconic places, events, inventions, foods, and objects from the Green Mountain State.
Author : Stephanie True Peters
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 37,58 MB
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823961023
This book explains how to draw some of Vermont's sights and symbols, including the state seal, the official flower, and the Ethan Allen homestead.
Author : Greg Carpenter
Publisher : Shirespress
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 36,34 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781605712239
SECOND EDITION: This book is much more than just your typical state symbols book. It asks who was the originator behind each symbol? What were they thinking at the time? Why did they pick the symbol? And what can we all learn from it? Hear from the originators themselves, learn where you can see these symbols within the state and hold a piece of Vermont history that will remain timeless.
Author : Kathy Feeney
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780736822756
Presents information about the state of Vermont, its nickname, motto, and emblems.
Author : Greg Carpenter
Publisher : Shire Press (Northshire Bookstore)
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Emblems, State
ISBN : 9781605711430
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Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 18,52 MB
Release : 2012-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0762786302
New Hampshire literally has something for everyone: urban types looking for bookstores, coffee shops, swank eateries, and nightclubs; outdoorsy folks searching for endless vistas atop the high peaks of the White Mountains; history buffs seeking clues to the state’s rich past; or snow-loving families hoping to schuss the slopes all day long. It is a place of quaint villages, swimming holes, general stores, and hillside farms. And its people, those singular Granite Staters, are the friendly caretakers who make sure it’s there for all to enjoy. Profiled within these pages are fifty classic symbols of this extraordinary state, revealing little-known facts, longtime secrets, and historical legends. From frost heaves to Robert Frost, from Stonyfield Yogurt to the New Hampshire State House, New Hampshire Icons offers up the inside story on the Granite State. Did you know that New Hampshire has the shortest coastline of any state (18 miles)? That Mt. Washington is the official home of the world’s worst weather? That pumpkins are the official state fruit? New Hampshire Icons features the people, places, events, foods, animals, and traditions that make it the singular state it is.
Author : Blake A. Harrison
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 13,96 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Rural tourism
ISBN : 9781584655916
With its small native population, proximity to major metropolitan areas, and bucolic rural beauty, Vermont was fated to be a tourist mecca, forever associated in the popular imagination with maple syrup, fall colors, and ski bunnies. Tourism, for good and ill, has always been the decisive factor in the conception of rural Vermont. What is surprising, however, is the degree to which we have accepted this notion of rural Vermont as a somehow timeless entity. Blake Harrison's rich and rewarding study instead presents the construction of Vermont's landscape as a complex and ever-changing dynamic informed by progressive, modernist, and reformist thought, competing views of economic expansion, rural and urban prejudice and social exclusion, and (more recently) by land use planning and environmentalism. This broad-based study includes the early history of Vermont tourism, the concomitant abandonment of farms with the rise of the summer home, the creation of an "unspoiled" Vermont (from billboards, at least), the impact of Vermont's ski industry on tradition-bound tourism, and later efforts to legislate growth and protect an increasingly static ideal of a rural Vermont.While grounded within a specific Vermont view, Harrison has much to contribute to broader studies of rural places, tourism, and landscapes in American culture. His analysis of how physical landscapes affect and are affected by our imagined landscape, and the insight afforded by his juxtaposition of leisure and labor, will deeply inform our understanding of rural tourist landscapes for years to come. This is a truly interdisciplinary work that will satisfy and challenge historians and geographers alike.
Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0762768967
Maine is many things to many people—a haven in a world of headaches, a fir-stippled paradise where summer comes slow and easy, a place that is heartbreaking to leave and a relief to return to. It is the way life should be. More specifically, Maine is 3,500 miles of enchanting coastline, the 5,267-foot elevation of Mount Katahdin, and of course her hardy, friendly folks. Maine Icons illustrates the quintessential symbols that make Maine so fascinating and unique. Profiled here are fifty classic symbols of this extraordinary state, revealing little-known facts, longtime secrets, and historical legends. From bean hole beans to L.L.Bean, here’s the inside story about the very things that give this state its character. Did you know that the annual Maine Lobster Festival includes a parade, a lobster-crate race, and more than 20,000 pounds of lobster cooked in the world’s biggest lobster boiler? That it was a woman, Cornelia Thurza “Fly Rod” Crosby, who became the first licensed, registered Maine Guide in 1897? Or that the earmuff was patented in the 1870s by young Chester Greenwood, who went on to be named one of America’s top fifteen outstanding inventors? For Mainers and newcomers alike, Maine Icons will be a treasured keepsake of this charming state.
Author : Kenneth Aiken
Publisher : Down East Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 15,27 MB
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1608934268
Vermont is quintessential New England and a wonderful state to explore, offering grand vistas, lovely farms and villages, historic sites, and rolling mountains. In addition you'll encounter minimal traffic, plenty of scenic turnoffs, and absolutely no billboards. Here a native Vermonter guides us through the entire state, from windswept peaks to lush farmlands, from magnificent Lake Champlain to the Northeast Kingdom. Fascinating histories and anecdotes accompany the precise road directions, giving us a sense of the true character of Vermont.
Author : Matthew P. Mayo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 076278914X
Howling hauntings from the raw mountain passes and wind-stripped plains of the Old West The Old West is filled with enough phenomenal happenings, curious mysteries, and ghastly ghosts to send chills up and down any spine. Haunted Old West is the petrifyingly perfect collection for campfire gatherings and makes an eerily ideal guide for a ghost-hunting trip to the Old West. In these pages explore horror-filled mine shafts and outrun herds of stampeding spectral cattle. Stumble upon a supernatural saloon, investigate ghost towns teeming with residents of the afterlife, and feel phantom freight trains pass through your body. Haunted Old West provides the inside story on some of the most actively haunted spots in the great American West, including: Ghostly Garnet: In summer, visitors frequent this best-preserved ghost town in Montana, but it is winter when Garnet truly comes alive. Raucous music can be heard within the Kelly Saloon, and the blacksmith’s ringing anvil punctuates the sounds of a busy 1880s street scene. Yes indeed, Garnet puts the “ghost” in ghost town. Bandit Ghoul of Six Mile Canyon: Respected businessman by day, bandit gang leader by night, Big Jack Davis amasses a fortune robbing trains, stagecoaches, and bullion wagons in 1860s Nevada. Shot in the back while robbing a stagecoach, Big Jack is now a shrieking white demon, flapping wings sprouted from his wounds and driving off anyone who gets too close to his buried loot.