Author :
Publisher :
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1905
Category : New England
ISBN :
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Buried in the Bay State
Author : Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group
Publisher :
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 22,5 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Hazardous waste sites
ISBN :
Where They're Buried
Author : Thomas E. Spencer
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Cemeteries
ISBN : 0806348232
This volume invites readers to get up close and personal with one of the most respected and beloved writers of the last four decades. Carolyn J. Sharp has transcribed numerous table conversations between Walter Brueggemann and his colleagues and former students, in addition to several of his addresses and sermons from both academic and congregational settings. The result is the essential Brueggemann: readers will learn about his views on scholarship, faith, and the church; get insights into his "contagious charisma," grace, and charity; and appreciate the candid reflections on the fears, uncertainties, and difficulties he faced over the course of his career. Anyone interested in Brueggemann's work and thoughts will be gifted with thought-provoking, inspirational reading from within these pages.
The Bay State Monthly. Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884
Author : Various
Publisher : Litres
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 5041627584
New England Magazine and Bay State Monthly
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 32,6 MB
Release : 1885
Category : New England
ISBN :
Buried Dreams
Author : Andrew R. Black
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,17 MB
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0807174084
The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, and thus is little known today. Andrew R. Black’s Buried Dreams refreshes public memory of the project, explaining how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place, what forces sustained its completion, and the factors that inhibited its success. Black digs into the special case of Massachusetts, a state disadvantaged by nature and forced repeatedly to reinvent itself to succeed economically. The Hoosac Tunnel was just one of the state’s efforts in this cycle of decline and rejuvenation, though certainly the strangest. Black also explores the intense rivalry among Eastern Seaboard states for the spoils of western expansion in the post‒Erie Canal period. His study interweaves the lure of the West, the competition between Massachusetts and archrival New York, the railroad boom and collapse, and the shifting ground of state and national politics. The psychic makeup of Americans before and after the Civil War heavily influenced public perceptions of the tunnel; by the time it was finished, Black contends, the indomitable triumphalism that had given birth to the Hoosac had faded to skepticism and cynicism. Anticipated economic benefits never arrived, and Massachusetts eventually sold the tunnel for only a fraction of its cost to a private railroad company. Buried Dreams tells a story of America’s reckoning with the perils of impractical idealism, the limits of technology to bend nature to its will, and grand endeavors untempered by humility.
The Bay State Monthly. Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1884
Author : Various
Publisher : Litres
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 15,67 MB
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 5041431132
Report of the Watuppa Water Board to the City Council
Author : Fall River (Mass.). Watuppa Water Board
Publisher :
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Water-supply
ISBN :
Buried Dreams
Author : Andrew R. Black
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 17,24 MB
Release : 2020-10-14
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 0807174092
The Hoosac railroad tunnel in the mountains of northwestern Massachusetts was a nineteenth-century engineering and construction marvel, on par with the Brooklyn Bridge, Transcontinental Railroad, and Erie Canal. The longest tunnel in the Western Hemisphere at the time (4.75 miles), it took nearly twenty-five years (1851‒1875), almost two hundred casualties, and tens of millions of dollars to build. Yet it failed to deliver on its grandiose promise of economic renewal for the commonwealth, and thus is little known today. Andrew R. Black’s Buried Dreams refreshes public memory of the project, explaining how a plan of such magnitude and cost came to be in the first place, what forces sustained its completion, and the factors that inhibited its success. Black digs into the special case of Massachusetts, a state disadvantaged by nature and forced repeatedly to reinvent itself to succeed economically. The Hoosac Tunnel was just one of the state’s efforts in this cycle of decline and rejuvenation, though certainly the strangest. Black also explores the intense rivalry among Eastern Seaboard states for the spoils of western expansion in the post‒Erie Canal period. His study interweaves the lure of the West, the competition between Massachusetts and archrival New York, the railroad boom and collapse, and the shifting ground of state and national politics. The psychic makeup of Americans before and after the Civil War heavily influenced public perceptions of the tunnel; by the time it was finished, Black contends, the indomitable triumphalism that had given birth to the Hoosac had faded to skepticism and cynicism. Anticipated economic benefits never arrived, and Massachusetts eventually sold the tunnel for only a fraction of its cost to a private railroad company. Buried Dreams tells a story of America’s reckoning with the perils of impractical idealism, the limits of technology to bend nature to its will, and grand endeavors untempered by humility.
Report of the Watuppa Water Board to the City Council of the City of Fall River, Mass
Author : Watuppa Water Board (Fall River, Mass.)
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Water-supply
ISBN :