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Redwood City
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Reg McGovern, Janet McGovern, Betty S. Veronico, Nicholas A. Veronico
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Redwood Cityas slogan, aClimate Best By Government Test, a
describes the fair weather at San Mateo Countyas seat, which was
established in 1851 as the bayside terminus for the peninsulaas
lumber industry. Wharfs located along Redwood Creek formed the
basis of the townas commercial district, and in the 20th century,
the cityas port expanded with new industries, such as the
Pacific-Portland Cement Company, the Morgan Oyster Company, and
Leslie Salt. Meanwhile, Redwood Cityas downtown area hosted many
civic events, numerous theaters, and the regionas largest retail
district. In the 1950s, the city grew along Woodside Road and, soon
thereafter, when Redwood Shores was added to its boundaries,
expanded north. Today Redwood City has come full circle with a
revitalized downtown and a beautifully restored courthouse square.
Before the advent of roads in western Washington, steamboats of the
Mosquito Fleet swarmed all over Puget Sound. Sidewheelers,
stern-wheelers, and propeller-driven, they ranged from the tiny
40-foot Marie to the huge 282-foot Yosemite, and from the famous
Flyer to the unknown Leota. Floating stores like the Vaughn and
shrimpers like the Violet sailed the same waters as the elegant
Great Lakes lady, the Chippewa, and the homely Willie. A few, like
the Bob Irving and Blue Star, died spectacularly or, like Major
Tompkins, shipwrecked after a short time, while others began new
lives as tugboats or auto ferries; some even survive today as
excursion boats like the Virginia V. From 1853 to modern car
ferries in the 1920s, this volume chronicles the heyday of
steamboating--a unique segment of maritime history--from modest
launch to sleek liner.
A fascinating story exists just below Seattles surface, buried in
the citys many historic cemeteries. Founded in 1872 on land
acquired from Doc Maynard, Lake View Cemetery holds the remains of
one of Seattles favorite sons, Bruce Lee, whose son Brandon Lee is
buried beside him. Maynard is also buried here, along with most of
the Seattle pioneers, including the Dennys, Borens, Maynards,
Yeslers, and Morans. Princess Angeline, Chief Sealths daughter, was
buried here in a canoe-shaped coffin, and Madame Damnables remains
supposedly turned to stone. Evergreen-Washelli Cemetery, founded in
1884 by the Denny family, contains Judge Thomas Burke, known as the
man who built Seattle; a Veterans Memorial Cemetery dating from the
Civil War; and two cannons from the USS Constitution, famously
nicknamed Old Ironsides. Mount Pleasant Cemetery, founded in 1883
in Queen Anne, is the final resting place of the labor martyrs of
the Everett Massacre and William Bell, of Belltown fame.
Remembrance benches for Nirvanas Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrixs
memorial are also local landmarks.
Situated in the Cascades about 50 miles east of Seattle, Snoqualmie
Pass is intersected by the most heavily used route connecting
eastern and western Washington. In the 1800s, use of the old Native
American trail by explorers, cattlemen, and miners created a need
for a wagon road. A railway and highway followed, and Snoqualmie
Pass quickly developed into an all-season recreational paradise
with over a half million visitors annually. Known for easy access
to snow sports and the Alpine Lakes Wilderness area, nighttime ski
operations, and the world-famous terrain of Alpental, Snoqualmie
Pass is also a community of neighborhoods with both full-time and
part-time residents who share a unique mountain lifestyle.
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Hood Canal
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Michael Fredson
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Fjord-like Hood Canal channels beneath the snowcapped Olympic
National Park, creating a summer paradise of warm days and
inspiring scenery as well as a haven for marine life and
watercraft. For eons, Twana Indians crisscrossed in canoes that
sliced through water like salmon. The canals first tourist, Captain
Vancouver, sailed a launch down the scenic route in 1792. For the
next century, a mosquito fleet of tugboats, stern-wheelers, fishing
boats, and barges ferried the men who came for logging or land. By
1889, lumberman and legislator John McReavy promoted Union City as
Venice of
the Pacific. In the 20th century, canal use shifted from logging to
recreation as wealthy Easterners, San Francisco expatriates, and
artists founded hunting lodges, fishing resorts, and even an artist
colony. The Navy Yard Highway introduced automobile tourism, and
new resorts, including Alderbrook, soon dotted the shoreline. After
World War II, families bought summer homes and ski boats. Now, in
the 21st
century, kayaks and personal watercraft skim across the waters, and
the canal is more popular than ever.
The Key Peninsula is a scenic finger of land that stretches south
between Case and Carr Inlets in Washington State. Few people lived
there before 1850, although Native Americans fished and hunted from
temporary villages. Several communities, each with a unique
history, took root near the various bays and inlets of the
peninsula, and by the 1890s, many areas bustled with schools, post
offices, mills, churches, and stores. Logging, orchards, and
chicken farms supported these early pioneers. Cut off from the
mainland, the waters of Puget Sound provided transportation. The
famous Mosquito Fleet carried products such as fruit, seafood,
chickens, eggs, and butter to Olympia, Tacoma, and Seattle until
the advent of the ferries and, later, the bridges. Many of today's
"oldtimers" are just two or three generations distant from the
original hardy settlers, but the area's residents are proud of the
heritage of this unique place they call home.
Ferryboats have been a way of life on Puget Sound since settlers
first arrived there. From the wooden Mosquito Fleet to the sleek
art deco Kalakala, the ferries of Puget Sound serve as a cultural
icon to visitors and locals alike. Running from Point Defiance to
Sidney, British Columbia, the Washington State ferry system is the
single largest tourist attraction in the state, with 28 routes and
23 million riders annually. Names like Vashon, Kalakala, and
Chetzemoka still resonate with fondness and nostalgia long after
they have gone, while ships built the year Lindberg flew solo
across the Atlantic will soon be pensioned off and pass into the
"Ghost Fleet." In this volume, travelers are invited to look back
to the past and bid Puget Sound's "ancient mariners" a fond
farewell.
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Coralville
(Paperback)
Timothy Walch
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In the mountains of northern New Mexico above Taos Pueblo lies a
deep, turquoise lake which was taken away from the Taos Indians,
for whom it is a sacred life source and the final resting place of
their souls. The story of their struggle to regain the lake is at
the same time a story about the effort to retain the spiritual life
of this ancient community. Marcia Keegan's text and historic
photographs document the celebration in 1971, when the sacred lake
was returned to Taos Pueblo after a sixty year struggle with the
Federal government.
This revised and expanded edition celebrates the 40th
anniversary of this historic event, and includes forwards from the
1971 edition by Frank Waters, and from the 1991 20th anniversary
edition by Stewart L. Udall. Also contained here is new material:
statements from past and current tribal leaders, reflections from
Pueblo members, historic tribal statements made at the 1970
Congressional hearings and a 1971 photograph o
Connecticut's capital has served as home to some of the most
influential women in the state's history, but few know the stories
of their lives and accomplishments. Nineteenth-century abolitionist
Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel Uncle Tom's Cabin became a catalyst
for the Civil War. Ella Grasso was the first woman elected governor
in the United States. Hannah Bunce Watson, publisher of the
Hartford Courant, never skipped a single edition during the
Revolutionary War. Through these and many more inspiring profiles,
author and journalist Cynthia Wolfe Boynton chronicles the
struggles and triumphs of some of Hartford's most remarkable women.
From one of America's most respected journalists and modern
historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington
Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the
United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter
tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his
improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints
an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since
Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a
complex figure-ridiculed and later revered-with a piercing
intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the
patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed
but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to
telling the truth to the American people. Growing up in one of the
meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American
president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life
on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might
as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the
center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on
conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge
of the challenges of the twenty-first. "One of the best in a
celebrated genre of presidential biography," (The Washington Post),
His Very Best traces how Carter evolved from a timid, bookish
child-raised mostly by a Black woman farmhand-into an ambitious
naval nuclear engineer writing passionate, never-before-published
love letters from sea to his wife and full partner, Rosalynn; a
peanut farmer and civic leader whose guilt over staying silent
during the civil rights movement and not confronting the white
terrorism around him helped power his quest for racial justice at
home and abroad; an obscure, born-again governor whose brilliant
1976 campaign demolished the racist wing of the Democratic Party
and took him from zero percent to the presidency; a stubborn
outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s
and the seizure of American hostages in Iran but succeeded in
engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic
environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to
diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights and
normalizing relations with China among other unheralded and
far-sighted achievements. After leaving office, Carter eradicated
diseases, built houses for the poor, and taught Sunday school into
his mid-nineties. This "important, fair-minded, highly readable
contribution" (The New York Times Book Review) will change our
understanding of perhaps the most misunderstood president in
American history.
From the time it was founded in 1825, Akron was a town on the move.
Once known as the "Rubber Capitol of the World," it brought droves
of new workers to downtown and the suburban areas. With expansion
came a need for entertainment, and wrestling was there for the
multitudes. From the contrast of high school amateurs on mats to
snarling villains and heroes in the professional ring, the sport
thrived. There were the early days of traveling carnivals, with
circuit-riding wrestlers who would take on all comers from the
audience, to secretive fights set by shifty promoters in railroad
yards with onlookers placing bets. There were the glory days of the
Akron Armory--offering the crowd a chance to see such luminaries as
the cigar-chewing Killer Tim Brooks, the smiling Johnny Powers, or
the devious Don Kent--and beyond after the famed arena closed.
Over the course of 100 years, the prestigious Hotel du Pont has
welcomed future and former presidents, first ladies, world leaders,
Nobel Prize recipients, royalty, music maestros, sports legends,
and stars of stage and screen--earning its reputation as the
premier hotel in the state of Delaware. The Green Room, one of the
most elegant hotel dining rooms in the country, features
traditional French cuisine. The Gold Ballroom and other ornate
European-inspired rooms provide luxurious venues for public and
private events. A nationally recognized art collection showcasing
original paintings by Andrew Wyeth adorns the Christina Room's
walls. A state-of-the-art conference center and a 1,250-seat
theater add to amenities that make the Hotel du Pont a first-choice
destination for business and social events. Often labeled the front
door of DuPont, the hotel is strategically located in the company's
world headquarters.
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