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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 42,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0252033930
A panoramic collection of ninety photographs captures the spirit of people at work and play along the Illinois River, as well as the quiet beauty of the flora and fauna that make the river a natural retreat.
Author : Jerry M. Hay
Publisher : Inland Waterways Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1607438569
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Publisher : 3 Fields Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 33,15 MB
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780252086625
Author : Dean Klinkenberg
Publisher : Dean Klinkenberg
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 36,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN : 9780971690448
Author : Eddy Harris
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 1998-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780805059038
The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.
Author : Jason Stacy
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 10,65 MB
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0252052730
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes—populist, elite, and exile—that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century. A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself.
Author : Alan Guebert
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252097483
"The river was in God's hands, the cows in ours." So passed the days on Indian Farm, a dairy operation on 700 acres of rich Illinois bottomland. In this collection, Alan Guebert and his daughter-editor Mary Grace Foxwell recall Guebert's years on the land working as part of that all-consuming collaborative effort known as the family farm. Here are Guebert's tireless parents, measuring the year not in months but in seasons for sewing, haying, and doing the books; Jackie the farmhand, needing ninety minutes to do sixty minutes' work and cussing the entire time; Hoard the dairyman, sore fingers wrapped in electrician's tape, sharing wine and the prettiest Christmas tree ever; and the unflappable Uncle Honey, spreading mayhem via mistreated machinery, flipped wagons, and the careless union of diesel fuel and fire. Guebert's heartfelt and humorous reminiscences depict the hard labor and simple pleasures to be found in ennobling work, and show that in life, as in farming, Uncle Honey had it right with his succinct philosophy for overcoming adversity: "the secret's not to stop." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DooGQqUlXI4&index=1&list=FLPxtuez-lmHxi5zpooYEnBg
Author : Calvin R. Fremling
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2004-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299202941
This engaging and well-illustrated primer to the Upper Mississippi River presents the basic natural and human history of this magnificent waterway. Immortal River is written for the educated lay-person who would like to know more about the river's history and the forces that shape as well as threaten it today. It melds complex information from the fields of geology, ecology, geography, anthropology, and history into a readable, chronological story that spans some 500 million years of the earth's history. Like the Mississippi itself, Immortal River often leaves the main channel to explore the river's backwaters, floodplain, and drainage basin. The book's focus is the Upper Mississippi, from Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Cairo, Illinois. But it also includes information about the river's headwaters in northern Minnesota and about the Lower Mississippi from Cairo south to the river's mouth ninety miles below New Orleans. It offers an understanding of the basic geology underlying the river's landscapes, ecology, environmental problems, and grandeur.
Author : Angela Palm
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555979424
Angela Palm grew up in a place not marked on the map, her house set on the banks of a river that had been straightened to make way for farmland. Every year, the Kankakee River in rural Indiana flooded and returned to its old course while the residents sandbagged their homes against the rising water. From her bedroom window, Palm watched the neighbor boy and loved him in secret, imagining a life with him even as she longed for a future that held more than a job at the neighborhood bar. For Palm, caught in this landscape of flood and drought, escape was a continually receding hope. Though she did escape, as an adult Palm finds herself drawn back, like the river, to her origins. But this means more than just recalling vibrant, complicated memories of the place that shaped her, or trying to understand the family that raised her. It means visiting the prison where the boy that she loved is serving a life sentence for a brutal murder. It means trying to chart, through the mesmerizing, interconnected essays of Riverine, what happens when a single event forces the path of her life off course.
Author : Richard Bissell
Publisher : eNet Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 20,20 MB
Release :
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ISBN : 1618865587
A skillful, and frequently hilarious, comparison of Mark Twain and the author, Richard Bissell. Part commentary and part autobiography, Bissell deftly interweaves family history, anecdotes, and career paths into an unforgettable linking of two outstanding authors and river boat buffs living almost a century apart.
