Treasures of Athens and Limestone County
Author : Betty L. Taylor
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Athens (Ala.)
ISBN : 9781616588045
Author : Betty L. Taylor
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Page : 394 pages
File Size : 40,87 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Athens (Ala.)
ISBN : 9781616588045
Author : Kelly Kazek
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2010-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781531657604
Athens and Limestone County were founded in 1818, the year before Alabama became a state, making Athens one of its oldest cities. The quaint, picturesque downtown square in Athens, the county seat, is the heart of the community. Athens and Limestone County are studies in the ongoing tug-of-war between tradition and progress. Athens is traditionally a railroad and cotton town--once ranking among the state's largest cotton producers--but since the aerospace boom of the 1960s, it has increasingly entered the orbit of the technology center of nearby Huntsville, home of the U.S. Space and Rocket Center and Redstone Arsenal. These days, Athens is home to many manufacturing firms, and local civic groups are focused on revitalizing downtown and bringing tourists to Limestone County.
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Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Athens (Ala.)
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Author : James Orton
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Fiction
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This short work was written primarily for the landowners, the farmers, the mechanics, the miners, and the laborers. It attempted to help them discover for themselves minerals and ores and thus develop the resources and establish the value of any particular farm or region. It is one of the most valuable works on mining engineering, metallurgy, and Mineralogy. Contents include: Introduction Directions for Determining Specimens by the Key Descriptive List of Useful Minerals Prospecting for Diamonds, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead and Iron Assay of Ores Mineral Springs Artificial Jewelry—How Made and How Detected Discovery of Gold in California Discovery of Silver in Nevada, and United States Gold and Silver Statistics
Author : James Orton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2018-05-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3732689484
Reproduction of the original: Unterground Treasures: How and where to find them by James Orton
Author : Wil Elrick
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1439664692
Join author Wil Elrick as he explores the history behind some of the Cotton State's weird and legendary tales. Mysterious 1989 UFO sightings brought more than 4,000 visitors to the tiny town of Fyffe, population 1,300. Legends of the Alabama White Thang - an elusive, hairy creature with a shrill shriek - persisted in the state for a century. Just outside Huntsville's historic Maple Hill Cemetery lies an eerie playground where the ghosts of departed children are rumored to play in the dead of night. After hundreds of unexplained sightings, the town of Evergreen declared itself the Bigfoot Capital of Alabama. Alabama is a weird and wonderful place with a colorful history steeped in folk tales passed from generation to generation.
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Page : 1142 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Coal mines and mining
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Author : Chris Goertzen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,79 MB
Release : 2022-10-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1496843754
What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia effectively but also reward close attention. In Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts, author Chris Goertzen argues that this entails three types of change that can be grouped under an umbrella term: intensification. First, traditional creativity can be intensified through virtuosity, through doing hard things extra fluently. Second, performances can be intensified through addition, by packing increased amounts of traditional materials into the conventionally sized packages. Third, in intensification through selection, artistic impact can grow even if amount of information recedes by emphasizing compelling ideas—e.g., crafting a red and black viper poised to strike rather than a pretty duck decoy featuring more colors and contours. Rugs handwoven in southern Mexico, luthier-made guitars, and southern US fiddle styles experience parallel changes, all absorbing just enough of the complex flavors, dynamics, and rhythms of modern life to translate inherited folklore into traditions that can be widely celebrated today. New mosaics of details and skeins of nuances don’t transform craft into esoteric fine art, but rather enlist the twists and turns and endless variety of the contemporary world therapeutically, helping transform our daily chaos into parades of negotiable jigsaw puzzles. Intensification helps make crafts and traditional performances more accessible and understandable and thus more effective, bringing past and present closer together, helping folk arts continue to perform their magic today.
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Page : 1184 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Income tax
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Author : Illinois. Department of Mines and Minerals
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Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,16 MB
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