Author : Susan M. Strawn
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 31,48 MB
Release : 2011-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0760340110
Enhanced with more than three hundred images, a comprehensive history of knitting in America includes twenty historical knitting patterns.
Author : Rebecca Stefoff
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 21,6 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761440352
Celebrate the richness and diversity of the United States of America in this exciting series.
Author : Roxie Yonkey
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,16 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1681063190
Kansas is nicknamed “The Sunflower State,” “The Wheat State,” and “The Breadbasket of the World.” In Kansas, rural and urban come together in a fascinating mix. From the bright lights of Kansas City and Wichita to the star-strewn skies above the Flint Hills, beautiful Kansas will captivate you. Journey across Kansas’s endless horizons with the fascinating handbook, 100 Things to Do in Kansas Before You Die. Sing “Home on the Range” at the cabin where the song was born and watch the buffalo roam at Maxwell Wildlife Refuge. You’ll never forget the glorious sound of thousands of cranes singing at Cheyenne Bottoms. Soar above the skies in Wichita, the Air Capital of the World, and with Amelia Earhart in Atchison. Find out why you like Ike at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene. Adventurous cyclists should grind gravel during Emporia’s 200- mile bicycle race or ride across the state for two weeks during Biking Across Kansas in June. Discover natural wonders like Monument Rocks, giant marine fossils, and the Arikaree Breaks, the Canyons of Kansas. Local author Roxie Yonkey is your navigator from Route 66 to the Santa Fe Trail, ready to show the ropes to locals and visitors alike. Whether you’ve never trod the Road to Oz, or whether Kansas is your No Place Like Home, you need this guidebook.
Author : Victor J. Danilov
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780759108554
Women and Museums is a comprehensive directory of museums for, by, and about women, providing information about interpretive themes, historical significance of collections, and cultural and social relevance to women, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides and accessible format provide quick and easy ways of finding information on America's women-related museums. Visit our website for sample chapters!
Author : Alan Kent Powell
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 22,17 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781555911140
This is the most comprehensive guidebook to the state of Utah, with information on historic attractions, festivals, cultural events, outdoor activities, accommodations, and restaurants. 139 photos. 9 maps.
Author : Edith Sampson Holden Healy
Publisher : Washakie Museum & Cultural Center
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 39,99 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9780989745307
After an eight-year courtship, they wed on a stormy Boston night in 1911 and honeymooned across a South still recovering from the Civil War. Edith Sampson Holden, born into a prominent Boston family, fell in love and married Alec Healy, MIT graduate, Wyoming sheep rancher, and son of Utah immigrants. Edith wrote wonderfully observant letters to her mother and friends about the land, ranching, Fourth of July picnics, dancing, adoption, advice for a girl entering high school, travel to exotic locations, and the art of dying. A virtuoso violinist in Boston, Edith mastered salesmanship on behalf of Girl Scouting and turned the Big Horn Basin into a 1,000-scout stronghold where girls learned to love traditional teas while also discovering their adventurous side. Like Edith. By 1936, Wyoming had the most Girl Scout campers per capita in the country. Because of Edith. Arranged chronologically with an introduction and commentary by Edith's namesake and granddaughter, Edith Catherine (Cathy) Healy, Edith's letters give a glimpse of everyday life as the Frontier closed. They show a woman rare for her time and a couple who fashioned a loving and unusual marriage. Edith and Alec lived ordinary lives in an extraordinary way.
Author : Ednor Therriault
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0762765720
Your round-trip ticket to the wildest, wackiest, most outrageous people, places, and things the Treasure State has to offer! Whether you’re a born-and-raised Montanan, a recent transplant, or just passing through, Montana Curiosities will have you laughing out loud as Ednor Therriault takes you on a rollicking tour of the strangest sides of Big Sky Country. Just try keeping your seat on a Martin City barstool—when the stool is moving at 20 miles an hour, that is,at the Martin City Barstool Races each February. Spend an amazing day at the Miracle of America Museum in Polson—a sprawling, wildly eclectic testament to American culture and history. Enjoy hard rock music near Whitehall by hammering away at the Ringing Rocks—a rare pile of reddish-gray boulders that chime when tapped.
Author : Amy K. Levin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 39,74 MB
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1538107899
This updated edition of Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled “Museums Moving Forward,” which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well as the complexities of creating institutions devoted to marginalized histories. In addition to the new chapters, the second edition updates existing chapters, presenting changes to the museums discussed. It features expanded discussions of how local museums treat (or ignore) racial and ethnic diversity and concludes with a look at how business relationships, political events, and the economy affect what is shown and how it is displayed in local museums.
Author : Laurence Gourievidis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317684885
Recent decades have seen migration history and issues increasingly featured in museums. Museums and Migration explores the ways in which museum spaces - local, regional, national - have engaged with the history of migration, including internal migration, emigration and immigration. It presents the latest innovative research from academics and museum practitioners and offers a comparative perspective on a global scale bringing to light geo- and socio-political specificities. It includes an extensive range of international contributions from Europe, Asia, South America as well as settler societies such as Canada and Australia. Museums and Migration charts and enlarges the developing body of research which concentrates on the analysis of the representation of migration in relation to the changing character of museums within society, examining their civic role and their function as key public arenas within civil society. It also aims to inform debates focusing on the way museums interact with processes of political and societal changes, and examining their agency and relationship to identity construction, community involvement, policy positions and discourses, but also ethics and moralities.
Author : Lennis Leonard Broadfoot
Publisher :
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 1944
Category : Appalachians (People)
ISBN :
Oil and charcoal portraits with explanatory stories in Ozark dialect.
