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Inclusive campus-community collaborations provide critical
opportunities to build community capacity - defined as a
community's ability to jointly respond to challenges and
opportunities - and sustainability. Through case studies from
across all three subregions of Appalachia from Georgia to
Pennsylvania, Engaging Appalachia: A Guidebook for Building
Capacity and Sustainability offers diverse perspectives and
guidance for promoting social change through campus-community
relationships from faculty, community members, and student
contributors. This volume explores strategies for creating more
inclusive and sustainable partnerships through the arts,
humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In representing
diverse areas, environments, and issues, three relatable themes
emerge within a practice viewpoint that is scalable to communities
beyond Appalachia: fostering student leadership, asset-building,
and needs fulfillment within community engagement. Engaging
Appalachia presents collaborative approaches to regional community
engagement and offers important lessons in place-based methods for
achieving sustainable and just development. Written with
practicality in mind, this guidebook embraces hard-earned
experiences from decades of work in Appalachia and sets forth new
models for building community resilience in a changing world.
Merriam Press Military Monograph 28. Fourth Edition (January 2012).
The decision made on September 2, 1941, was one Bill Schumann would
never regret making. War broke out a short three months later as he
was acquainting himself with this mighty battleship, the USS Idaho,
having mustered onboard her in Iceland on December 6, 1941, only
hours before the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese. Bill was
to remain onboard this warship, fondly referred to by its crew as
"The Big Spud," throughout the entire conflict, and duly credit her
and her skillful crew for bringing them safely through the most
horrendous conflict the world has ever known, World War II. The
ship is no more, having been stricken from the Naval vessel
register and sold to Lipsett Inc. on November 24, 1947, to be cut
up for scrap. A seemingly cruel act for such a great warship, yet
today the memories live on in the hearts of those men who so many
years ago did time onboard her, when she was a fighting ship in the
most powerful Naval fleet the world has ever witnessed. During his
tour of duty, Bill had often wondered what was so special about the
Idaho, the fact that they had traveled so far, always at great
risk, and yet had so few casualties. Bill wasn't one who believed
in miracles, or for that matter a religious person, but a little
known event that took place on the Idaho during the ship's
commissioning twenty-two years before his tour of duty, may in some
way have contributed to their safe journey. Only three cherished
friends, all members of the ship's VO-3 (aviation) squadron, had
given their lives during the long conflict; strangely all were away
from the protection of the ship when they died. A mere coincidence,
he thinks not-it has made a believer out of Bill. Contents:
Acknowledgments; Glossary; Introduction; Chapter 1: Boot Camp and
the North Atlantic; Chapter 2: Force Duty West Coast and Hawaii;
Chapter 3: Aleutian Islands Campaign; Chapter 4: Gilbert Islands
Campaign; Chapter 5: Marshall Islands Campaign; Chapter 6: New
Hebrides and Kavieng; Chapter 7: The Mural and Beautiful Sydney;
Chapter 8: Mariana Islands Campaign; Chapter 9: Palau Islands
Campaign; Chapter 10: Iwo Jima (Kazan Retto); Chapter 11: Okinawa;
Chapter 12: Philippines and Home; Appendix 1: Roster of "V"
Division Personnel, 1942-45; Appendix 2: "Kingfisher" OS2U-3/OS2N-1
Information; Appendix 3: Aircraft Assigned to VO-3 Squadron, USS
Idaho (BB-42), 1941-45; Appendix 4: Battleship VO Squadrons, World
War II. 79 photos; 43 documents; 2 maps. Review by Steve Rodgers:
My father recently purchased your book The Big Spud, about the USS
Idaho in WWII. He was a member of the crew from 1942 to 1945, and I
can't tell you how much the book has meant to him. Review by Betty
M. Kibbey: I'm a sister of Carlos Ezekiel McGlone, MM, who went on
the USS Idaho in the Aleutian Islands. He informed me that a pilot
on board was writing a book about the ship, which he planned to
name Salt. I've been looking for the book for years, just under the
wrong title. All efforts failed until recently, when I asked my
nephew Vincent if his dad had shared the possibility of a book. He
hadn't heard about it, but typed in USS Idaho. How exciting after
years of questioning anyone I thought would know My library found
the book on Intra-Library loan, which I received and read
immediately. I will return it soon and enjoy my own copy from
Amazon, with one for Vincent. The Big Spud covers many things which
were somewhat familiar to me, and many that weren't. I'm overjoyed
that was able to read, and eventually own my copy. I still have my
brown bracelet of cat eye shells. What memories I have They mean so
much more now. The Big Spud is a Super Account of the USS Idaho.
Several friends have asked to borrow. Congratulations, Mr Schumann
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our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's
literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of
thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of intere
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources,
Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic,
political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to
distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is
also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education,
drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and
controversial region has been examined by generations of scholars,
activists, and civil servants -- all offering an array of
perspectives on Appalachia and its people. In this innovative
volume, editors William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
assemble both scholars and nonprofit practitioners to examine how
Appalachia is perceived both within and beyond its borders.
Together, they investigate the region's transformation and analyze
how it is currently approached as a topic of academic inquiry.
Arguing that interdisciplinary and comparative place-based studies
increasingly matter, the contributors investigate numerous topics,
including race and gender, environmental transformation,
university-community collaborations, cyber identities, fracking,
contemporary activist strategies, and analyze Appalachia in the
context of local-to-global change. A pathbreaking study analyzing
continuity and change in the region through a global framework,
Appalachia Revisited is essential reading for scholars and students
as well as for policymakers, community and charitable organizers,
and those involved in community development.
Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources,
Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic,
political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to
distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is
also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education,
drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and
controversial region has been examined by generations of scholars,
activists, and civil servants -- all offering an array of
perspectives on Appalachia and its people. In this innovative
volume, editors William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
assemble both scholars and nonprofit practitioners to examine how
Appalachia is perceived both within and beyond its borders.
Together, they investigate the region's transformation and analyze
how it is currently approached as a topic of academic inquiry.
Arguing that interdisciplinary and comparative place-based studies
increasingly matter, the contributors investigate numerous topics,
including race and gender, environmental transformation,
university-community collaborations, cyber identities, fracking,
contemporary activist strategies, and analyze Appalachia in the
context of local-to-global change. A pathbreaking study analyzing
continuity and change in the region through a global framework,
Appalachia Revisited is essential reading for scholars and students
as well as for policymakers, community and charitable organizers,
and those involved in community development.
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