Vermont Life
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Vermont
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Page : 894 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Vermont
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Author : John J. Duffy
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9781584650867
The definitive sourcebook for Vermont facts, figures, people, events, and history
Author : Stephen Greene
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Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,44 MB
Release : 1956
Category : Vermont
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Author : Blake A. Harrison
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
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 : Adam R. Boyce
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 13,61 MB
Release : 2013-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1625846800
In 1895, East Topsham's Charles Ross Taggart set his sights on becoming a traveling musical humorist. His uproarious ventriloquist and musical performances brought rave reviews in his Vermont community. He was soon thrust into the world of the lyceum and Chautauqua circuits, journeying far and wide across North America. His forty-three-year career spanned some of America's most exciting and most difficult times, and his folk performances--especially his beloved "Old Country Fiddler"--brought smiles to all who experienced them. He was also an innovator in the entertainment industry, recording his music and humor, as well as appearing in one of the first "talkie" films. Discover the remarkable story of "The Man from Vermont" who helped Americans forget their troubles when they needed it most with his mimicry, stories and fiddling.
Author : Charles T. Morrissey
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 1984-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393348717
For many Americans, Vermont still seems what the United States at least in myth once was--a bucolic landscape of wooded hills, neat farms, and handsome villages--before modern forces transformed our agrarian nation into an urban-industrial giant. Vermonters have long been respected as sturdy Americans who prize hard work, honest dealing, town-meeting government, and dry humor. Their way of life, along with the beauty of their Green Mountains and quiet valleys, remains immensely attractive to natives and newcomers who seek beauty and the satisfaction of self-sufficiency in a natural environment where rocky soil and a varied climate have always compelled respect.
Author : Kathy Pelta
Publisher : Lerner Publications
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2001-01-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780822540748
Introduces the state's geography, history, environmental issues, interesting sights and how the people work and live.
Author : Deborah Clifford
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 19,73 MB
Release : 2009-02-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1461747570
More than Petticoats: Remarkable Vermont Women celebrates the women who shaped the Green Mountain State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stories of women from across the state who served as teachers, writers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 1892
Category : Insurance
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Author : Lewis Cass Aldrich
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Page : 1396 pages
File Size : 22,50 MB
Release : 1891
Category : Vermont
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