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Rolling prairie grasslands in the east, surreal Badlands and lush
Black Hills in the west: South Dakota is a state of vivid
contrasts. In this classic and now-rare guide to Depression-era
South Dakota, you can discover the historic byways and back roads
of this beautiful state. Originally part of the American Guide
Series, this book was written both to chronicle the physical and
cultural landscape of the Mount Rushmore State and to employ
out-of-work writers. The result is a snapshot of South Dakota as
our grandparents knew it.
"The Bohemian Flats," first published in 1941, is a charming
history of a small, isolated community that once lay on the west
bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, tucked underneath the
Washington Avenue bridge. From the 1880s to the 1940s the village
was home to generations of Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Irish,
Polish, and especially Slovak immigrants. This book's vivid
descriptions of their traditions and adaptations offer an unusual
insight into Minnesota's multi-ethnic heritage.
"The Bohemian Flats" discusses the early years of settlement on the
Flats, the lifeways and celebrations of the residents, and the
razing of most of the neighborhood in 1932; it also provides
recipes "From the Flats Kitchens." This edition contains a new
section of pictures of the Flats and an introduction by ethnic
historian Thaddeus Radzilowski, who describes the genesis of the
book in the WPA and answers more questions about the identities of
those who lived on the Bohemian Flats.
In the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, the federal
government put thousands of unemployed writers to work in the
Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Out of their efforts came the American Guide series, the first
comprehensive guidebooks to the people, resources, and traditions
of each state in the union.
The WPA Guide to Minnesota is a lively and detailed introduction
to the state and its people. Much has changed since the book's
first publication in 1938 when, as the authors noted, some
Minnesotans could "clearly recall ... the sight of browsing buffalo
herds, and the creaking of thong-tied Red River carts." But the
book vividly recaptures the era when annual fishing licenses cost
fifty cents, farmers ran barn dances for motoring townfolk, Duluth
was the headquarters of the Hay Fever Club of America, and the
nearly new Foshay Tower loomed on the Minneapolis skyline.
The guide has much more than nostalgia to offer today's readers.
Twenty auto tours and six special city tours tell the stories of
the state's people and places and offer a fascinating alternative
to freeway travel. Essays on major themes such as native peoples,
history, arts, transportation, and sports provide an authentic
self-portrait of 1930s Minnesota in humorous, loving, and literary
prose.
This time-travelers' guide to Minnesota is an evocative reminder
of the state's past and a challenge to contemporary readers who
seek to find how that past lives on today.
Special features include 20 road trips, 6 city tours, 15
boundary waters canoe trips, 12 maps, 22 drawings, an introduction
by the renowned Midwestern writer Frederick Manfred, a chronology,
and a revisedbibliography.
The view that slavery could best be described by those who had
themselves experienced it personally has found expression in
several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and
interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these
accounts appeared before the Civil War, more than one-third are the
result of the ambitious efforts of the Federal Writers' Project of
the Works Progress Administration (WPA) to interview surviving
ex-slaves during the 1930s. The result of these efforts was the
Slave Narrative Collection, a group of autobiographical accounts of
former slaves that today stands as one of the most enduring and
noteworthy achievements of the WPA. Compiled in seventeen states
during the years 1936-38, the collection consists of more than two
thousand interviews with former slaves, most of them first-person
accounts of slave life and the respondents' own reactions to
bondage. The interviews afforded aged ex-slaves an unparalleled
opportunity to give their personal accounts of life under the
"peculiar institution," to describe in their own words what it felt
like to be a slave in the United States. -Norman R. Yetman,
American Memory, Library of Congress This paperback edition of all
of the Indiana narratives is reprinted in facsimile from the
typewritten pages of the interviewers, just as they were originally
typed.
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Federal Writers' Project Dutchess Co
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