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Sumner (Paperback): Paul J. Rogerson, Carmen M. Palmer Sumner (Paperback)
Paul J. Rogerson, Carmen M. Palmer
R625 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R103 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Come on in to Sumner, Washington, the "Rhubarb Pie Capital of the World." Settled in 1853 after a wagon train daringly crossed the Cascade Mountains through Naches Pass, Sumner quickly grew to become an established town. Find out how Sumner's name was literally drawn out of a hat. Learn about George Ryan's unique method for getting the railroad to stop here. Take a tour down Main Street, and watch how it changed--or didn't--through the decades. See Ryan House when it actually was a farmhouse and the Old Cannery when it was canning fruit. Join in celebrations over the years, from the Daffodil Parade to football championships. Meet schoolchildren, including Clara McCarty Wilt, who became the first graduate of the University of Washington. Follow the work at local industries, from the lumberyards to the fields, where daffodils, berries, and of course, rhubarb were grown.

Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Paperback): Dr William Lipsky Gay and Lesbian San Francisco (Paperback)
Dr William Lipsky; Foreword by Supervisor Tom Ammiano
R627 R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Save R103 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In recent years, San Francisco has been synonymous with gay and lesbian pride, and the various achievements of the gay and lesbian community are personified in the city by the bay. The tumultuous and ongoing struggles for this community's civil rights from the 1950s to the present are well documented, but queer culture itself goes back much further than that, in fact all the way back to the California gold rush.

Montana Beer - A Guide to Breweries in Big Sky Country (Paperback): Ryan Newhouse Montana Beer - A Guide to Breweries in Big Sky Country (Paperback)
Ryan Newhouse; Foreword by Senator Max Baucus
R535 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Montana's brewing history stretches back more than 150 years to the state's days as a territory. But the art of brewing in Montana has come a long way since the frontier era. Today, nearly forty craft breweries span the Treasure State, and the quality of their output rivals the best craft beer produced anywhere in the country. Maybe it's because there's also a little piece of Montana in every glass, as the state's brewers pride themselves on using cold mountain water and locally sourced barley harvested from Montana's ample fields. From grain to glass, " Montana Beer: A Guide to Breweries in Big Sky Country" tells the story of the brewers and breweries that make the Treasure State's brew so special.

Bill Miller's Riviera: - America's Showplace in Fort Lee, New Jersey (Paperback): Tom Austin, Ron Kase Bill Miller's Riviera: - America's Showplace in Fort Lee, New Jersey (Paperback)
Tom Austin, Ron Kase
R495 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R83 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kansas Oddities - Just Bill the Acting Rooster, the Locust Plagues of Grasshopper Falls, Naturalist Camps and More (Paperback):... Kansas Oddities - Just Bill the Acting Rooster, the Locust Plagues of Grasshopper Falls, Naturalist Camps and More (Paperback)
Roger L Ringer; Foreword by Marci Penner
R607 R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Save R98 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Life & Times of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague - "I Am the Law" (Paperback): Leonard F. Vernon The Life & Times of Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague - "I Am the Law" (Paperback)
Leonard F. Vernon
R496 R414 Discovery Miles 4 140 Save R82 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ghosts of the Blackstone Valley (Paperback): Thomas D'Agostino, Arlene Nicholson Ghosts of the Blackstone Valley (Paperback)
Thomas D'Agostino, Arlene Nicholson
R558 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R90 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Colorado Forts - Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier (Paperback): Jolie Anderson Gallagher Colorado Forts - Historic Outposts on the Wild Frontier (Paperback)
Jolie Anderson Gallagher
R504 R422 Discovery Miles 4 220 Save R82 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout the 1800s, explorers braved brutal weather and hostile enemies, trekking through the towering mountains and fertile valleys on the ragged edge of civilization. These early pioneers built stockades, trading posts, military camps and miniature citadels that would shape the state of Colorado for generations to come. As the settlers struggled to survive desperate times, economic depressions and bloody wars, some of these historic outposts would become Colorado's cities, schools, hospitals and museums, while others would sink back into the mud from which they came. Join author Jolie Anderson Gallagher as she chronicles the stories of the forts and the early explorers, fur trappers, soldiers and wives who constructed and occupied them.

Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley - Stories from the Albany Post Road (Paperback): Carney Rhinevault, Tatiana Rhinevault Hidden History of the Mid-Hudson Valley - Stories from the Albany Post Road (Paperback)
Carney Rhinevault, Tatiana Rhinevault
R555 R465 Discovery Miles 4 650 Save R90 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the main thoroughfare between New York City and the state capitol in Albany was called the Albany Post Road. It saw a host of interesting events and colorful characters, such as Samuel Morse, who lived in Poughkeepsie, and Franklin Roosevelt of Hyde Park. Revolutionary War spies marched this path, and Underground Railroad safe-houses in towns like Rhinebeck and Fishkill sheltered slaves seeking freedom in Canada. Anti-rent wars rocked Columbia County, and Frank Teal's Dutchess County murder remains unsolved. With illustrations by Tatiana Rhinevault, local historian Carney Rhinevault presents these and other stories from the Albany Post Road in New York's mid-Hudson Valley.

A History of James Island Slave Descendants & Plantation Owners - The Bloodline (Paperback): Eugene Frazier A History of James Island Slave Descendants & Plantation Owners - The Bloodline (Paperback)
Eugene Frazier
R625 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R103 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tuesdays With Morrie - An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson (Paperback): Mitch Albom Tuesdays With Morrie - An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson (Paperback)
Mitch Albom
R326 R265 Discovery Miles 2 650 Save R61 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague?

Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it?

For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.

Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. v TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE is a magical chronicle of their time together, through which Mitch shares Morrie's lasting gift with the world.

Pittsburgh's Inclines (Paperback): Donald Doherty Pittsburgh's Inclines (Paperback)
Donald Doherty
R620 R516 Discovery Miles 5 160 Save R104 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memphis Chronicles - Bits of History from the Best Times (Paperback): John E. Harkins Memphis Chronicles - Bits of History from the Best Times (Paperback)
John E. Harkins
R535 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Take a break from the bustle of Poplar and Beale and enjoy this easy ride down memory lane, recalling days when downtown gridlock was caused by streetcars and wagons and the Mid-South was ruled by the likes of the Chickasaws, Confederates, King Cotton and Crump. Few know Shelby County and its history like lifelong Memphian John E. Harkins, who expertly chronicles the city's unparalleled heritage and the individuals and groups who have kept its past alive through the decades. Discover the origins of the yellow fever epidemic, Memphis in May, Elmwood Cemetery, the heroes of Shelby County history and so much more in "Memphis Chronicles."

Remembering St. Petersburg, Florida - Volume 2: More Sunshine City Stories (Paperback, illustrated edition): Scott Taylor... Remembering St. Petersburg, Florida - Volume 2: More Sunshine City Stories (Paperback, illustrated edition)
Scott Taylor Hartzell
R505 R424 Discovery Miles 4 240 Save R81 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As Remembering St. Petersburg, Florida, More Sunshine City Stories unfolds, it is the dawn of 1913. North of Central Avenue the members of the St. Petersburg Women's Club are beginning to advance city improvements. South of Central Avenue black children are witnessing the opening of Davis Academy, an institution that will help prepare them to tear down the walls of hardship and prejudice. Within the past decade, author Scott Taylor Hartzell has chronicled the Sunshine City's history for the St. Petersburg Times and in his books, St. Petersburg: An Oral History and Remembering St. Petersburg, Florida, Sunshine City Stories. He has tirelessly promoted the city's history to middle school students, lecture audiences at Eckerd and St. Petersburg colleges, and numerous groups and civic organizations. This book furthers his efforts in grand fashion, offering a look at St. Petersburg's history that cannot be found anywhere else.

Chicago Comedy - A Fairly Serious History (Paperback): Margaret Hicks Chicago Comedy - A Fairly Serious History (Paperback)
Margaret Hicks; Foreword by Mick Napier
R539 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R91 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Famous for being a city of broad shoulders, Chicago has also developed an international reputation for split sides and slapped knees. Watch the "Chicago Style of Comedy" evolve from nineteenth-century vaudeville, through the rebellious comics of the 50's, and into the improvisation and sketch that ushered in a new millennium. Drawing on material both hilarious and profound, Chicago Comedy: A Fairly Serious History touches on what makes Chicago different from other cities and how that difference produced some of the greatest minds comedy will ever know: Amos and Andy, Jack Benny, Lenny Bruce, Del Close, John Belushi, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert and so many, many more.

The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn - Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York (Hardcover): Suleiman... The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn - Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York (Hardcover)
Suleiman Osman
R1,290 Discovery Miles 12 900 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The gentrification of Brooklyn has been one of the most striking developments in recent urban history. Considered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by the 1980s had become a post-industrial landscape of hip bars, yoga studios, and beautifully renovated, wildly expensive townhouses. In The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn, Suleiman Osman offers a groundbreaking history of this unexpected transformation. Challenging the conventional wisdom that New York City's renaissance started in the 1990s, Osman locates the origins of gentrification in Brooklyn in the cultural upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. Gentrification began as a grassroots movement led by young and idealistic white college graduates searching for "authenticity" and life outside the burgeoning suburbs. Where postwar city leaders championed slum clearance and modern architecture, "brownstoners" (as they called themselves) fought for a new romantic urban ideal that celebrated historic buildings, industrial lofts and traditional ethnic neighborhoods as a refuge from an increasingly technocratic society. Osman examines the emergence of a "slow-growth" progressive coalition as brownstoners joined with poorer residents to battle city planners and local machine politicians. But as brownstoners migrated into poorer areas, race and class tensions emerged, and by the 1980s, as newspapers parodied yuppies and anti-gentrification activists marched through increasingly expensive neighborhoods, brownstoners debated whether their search for authenticity had been a success or failure. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn deftly mixes architectural, cultural and political history in this eye-opening perspective on the post-industrial city.

A History of Dog Sledding in New England (Paperback): Bruce D. Heald A History of Dog Sledding in New England (Paperback)
Bruce D. Heald
R535 R443 Discovery Miles 4 430 Save R92 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lost Virginia Beach (Paperback): Amy Waters Yarsinske Lost Virginia Beach (Paperback)
Amy Waters Yarsinske
R549 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R91 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Oceanfront's Cottage Line, the music halls of Seaside Park, and dunes so large they dwarfed the old Cape Henry lighthouse are a memory. Gone too are many of the city's iconic landmarks and open spaces, lost to flood, fire, storm and the relentless onslaught of post-World War II development. With a deft hand and rare vintage images, historian Amy Waters Yarsinske recalls a time when the likes of Chuck Berry and Ray Charles played beneath the sizzling lights of the Dome and locals shagged the night away at the Peppermint Beach Club. Join Yarsinske as she takes one final stroll through a Virginia Beach lost to time.

Eleanor Roosevelt - A Hudson Valley Remembrance (Paperback): Joyce C Ghee, Joan Spence Eleanor Roosevelt - A Hudson Valley Remembrance (Paperback)
Joyce C Ghee, Joan Spence
R636 R534 Discovery Miles 5 340 Save R102 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eleanor Roosevelt's character was shaped by the history and culture of the Hudson Valley. More than that, Eleanor Roosevelt loved the Hudson Valley. A woman who knew and cared for the whole world chose this place, Val-Kill, as her home in a cottage by a stream. Eleanor Roosevelt: A Hudson Valley Remembrance reflects her unaffected simplicity and caring interest in her neighbors' concerns. Remembered by friends, colleagues, neighbors, and young people, these qualities inspired a community-based group to lead efforts to save her home in 1977 as the country's first national historic site dedicated to a First Lady. The Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-Kill continues her work on issues that affect life today.

101 Glimpses of New Haven (Paperback): Colin M. Caplan 101 Glimpses of New Haven (Paperback)
Colin M. Caplan
R369 R306 Discovery Miles 3 060 Save R63 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Located along the northern shore of scenic Long Island Sound, New Haven is perhaps best known for its diverse architectural history (it boasts every American style) and as an intellectual capital the city vied with Hartford to establish Yale University within its borders. In this pictorial history, Colin Caplan, author of "A Guide to Historic New Haven, Connecticut" and "New Haven: Then and Now" offers readers a glimpse into the character, elegance and bustle that define the city.

Denholms - The Story of Worcester's Premier Department Store (Paperback): Christopher Sawyer, Patricia A Wolf Denholms - The Story of Worcester's Premier Department Store (Paperback)
Christopher Sawyer, Patricia A Wolf
R549 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R91 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Theatres in Los Angeles (Paperback): Suzanne Tarbell Cooper, Amy Ronnebeck Hall, Marc Wanamaker Theatres in Los Angeles (Paperback)
Suzanne Tarbell Cooper, Amy Ronnebeck Hall, Marc Wanamaker
R625 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R103 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Los Angeles and the movies grew up together, and a natural extension of the picture business was the premium presentation of the productthe biggest, best, and brightest theatres imaginable. The magnificent movie palaces along Broadway in downtown Los Angeles still represent the highest concentration of vintage theatres in the world. With Hollywood and the movies practically synonymous, the theatres in the studios neighborhood were state-of-the-art for showbiz, whether they were designed for film, vaudeville, or stage productions. From the elegant Orpheum and the exotic Graumans Chinese to the modest El Rey, this volume celebrates the architecture and social history of Los Angeless unique collection of historic theatres past and present. The common threads that connect them all, from the grandest movie palace to the smallest neighborhood theatre, are stories and the ghosts of audiences past waiting in the dark for the show to begin.

Bridges of Portland (Paperback): Ray Bottenberg Bridges of Portland (Paperback)
Ray Bottenberg
R625 R522 Discovery Miles 5 220 Save R103 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the 1920s and 1930s, Oregons legendary bridge engineer Conde B. McCullough designed a first-rate collection of aesthetic bridges on the Oregon Coast Highway to enhance an already dramatic and beautiful landscape. The six largest of these, at Gold Beach, Newport, Waldport, Florence, Reedsport, and Coos Bay, eliminated the last ferries on the Oregon Coast Highway between the Columbia River and California. McCullough planned to build one bridge each year after completion of the Rogue River Bridge at Gold Beach in 1932, but the tightening grip of the Depression threatened his plans. In 1933, McCullough and his staff worked day and night to finish plans for the remaining five bridges, and in early 1934, the Public Works Administration funded simultaneous construction of them. The combined projects provided approximately 630 jobs, but at least six workers perished during construction. After the bridges were complete, Oregon coast tourism increased by a dramatic 72 percent in the first year.

Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley (Paperback): Jonathan Kruk Legends and Lore of Sleepy Hollow and the Hudson Valley (Paperback)
Jonathan Kruk
R597 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is one of the best-known works of American literature. But what other myths lie hidden behind the landscape of New York's Hudson Valley? Imps cause mischief on the Hudson River; a white lady haunts Raven Rock; Major Andre's ghost seeks redemption; and real headless hessians search for their severed skulls. Local folklorist Jonathan Kruk tells these and other tales of the lore of the Hudson Valley the stories that have created an atmosphere of mystery that helped inspire Irving's legend.

Hidden History of Rhode Island - Not-To-Be-Forgotten Tales of the Ocean State (Paperback): glenn laxton Hidden History of Rhode Island - Not-To-Be-Forgotten Tales of the Ocean State (Paperback)
glenn laxton
R584 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R100 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Surprising tales and unexpected anecdotes color Rhode Island's legacy, from the accounts of its three brave "Titanic" survivors to the whirlwind Revolutionary War romance between a Smithfield girl and a French viscount. Rhode Island historian Glenn Laxton uncovers the exceptional citizens whom history has forgotten, like Robert the Hermit, a man who endured three escapes from slavery before finding liberty and peace in Rumford; the illustrious Lippitt family, who spearheaded advancements in deaf education; and Christiana Bannister, a Narragansett tribe member, nineteenth-century entrepreneur and wife to the most successful African American artist of the time. With moments of tragedy, as in the "Lexington" steamboat disaster, as well as triumph, as in the case of small-town boy turned baseball hero Joe Connolly, "Hidden History of Rhode Island" delivers the best Ocean State stories you've never heard before.

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