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Washington, Dc, Jazz
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Regennia N Williams, Sandra Butler-truesdale; Foreword by Willard Jenkins
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Kemah
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Pepper Coffey, The Kemah Historical Society
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Kemah is the Karankawa Indian word for "wind in the face." In the
early 1900s, it was a breezy coastal village where many residents
made a living in the fishing or boating industries. From the 1920s
to the 1950s, Kemah relied on illegal gambling and bootlegging to
survive. After the devastation of Hurricane Carla in 1961, local
restaurants rebuilt and became favorites of Houstonians, who
enjoyed the seafood and relaxing atmosphere. Because subsidence
caused much of Kemah to flood during high tide, a marina was built
in 1988 to ease the problem in low-lying areas. Today, the Kemah
area has the third largest fleet of recreational boats in America.
When older homes were converted into quaint shops, the Kemah
Lighthouse Shopping District was formed. In 1997, property on the
Clear Creek channel and Kemah bay front was acquired in order to
develop the Kemah Boardwalk, one of the top 10 boardwalks in
America.
In 1889, David Eccles chartered the Oregon Lumber Company, an
organization that produced many mills and railways and whose
influence was felt from Salt Lake City to Northern California and
Idaho. Through family connections, Eccles was also involved with
many other logging enterprises, and he influenced the growth of the
Inter-Mountain region as well as the Pacific Northwest. Sumpter
Valley Logging Railroads is a pictorial history of the Oregon
operations, focusing on the operations along the Sumpter Valley
Railway. It explores the rails, mills, and people, as well as the
logging practices of a bygone era.
With Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal
history of Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody
approach, Cress will largely bring new stories of mischief to the
table, though he will revisit the lighter side of two or three
crimes from Murder and Mayhem in Cumberland County. From stories of
college pranks gone wrong, Carlisle's own Robin Hood and the
robbing and subsequent torching of a beloved local theater (the
Strand where the local HS now sits ) to abuses at the Carlisle
Indian School and the town's connection to the raid on Harper's
Ferry, Cress scours the underbelly of the borough for mischief and
misdeeds.
Join local scholar Cyndy Bittinger on a journey through the
forgotten tales of the roles that Native Americans, African
Americans and women-often overlooked-played in Vermont's master
narrative and history. Bittinger not only shows where these
marginalized groups are missing from history, but also emphasizes
the ways that they contributed and their unique experiences.
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Montevallo
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Clark Hultquist, Carey Heatherly
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Montevallo: a mountain in a valley. This bucolic, natural phrase
aptly describes the beauty of this central Alabama town. Early
settlers were drawn to the area by its abundant agricultural and
mineral resources, and in 1826, the tiny village of Montevallo was
born. The nature of the town changed significantly in 1896 with the
founding of the Alabama Girls' Industrial School, now the
University of Montevallo. The Olmsted Brothers firm of Brookline,
Massachusetts, laid out the central campus, and its master plan
still inspires current development. Since 1896, the focus of the
town has shifted from agriculture and mining to education. The
university's mission is to be Alabama's "Public Liberal Arts
College." Prominent figures include writer and veteran E. B.
Sledge, actresses Polly Holiday and Rebecca Luker, and Major League
Baseball player Rusty Greer.
While today's Telluride might bring to mind a hot tourist spot and
upscale ski resort, the earliest days of the town and surrounding
San Miguel County were marked by an abundance of gamblers, con men
and murderers. From Bob Meldrum, a deputized killer who prowled the
streets during times of labor unrest, to the author's own ancestor,
Charlie Turner, a brash young man killed in a shooting in Ophir,
Carol Turner's Notorious Telluride offers a glimpse at some of the
sordid, shocking and sad pioneer tales of the area.
In Historic Columbus Crimes, the father-daughter team of David
Meyers and Elise Meyers Walker looks back at sixteen tales of
murder, mystery and mayhem culled from city history. Take the rock
star slain by a troubled fan or the drag queen slashed to death by
a would-be ninja. Then there's the writer who died acting out the
plot of his next book, the minister's wife incinerated in the
parsonage furnace and a couple of serial killers who outdid the Son
of Sam. Not to mention a gunfight at Broad and High, grave-robbing
medical students, the bloodiest day in FBI history and other
fascinating stories of crime and tragedy. They're all here, and
they're all true
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