Hidden History of the Toe River Valley
| Author | : Michael C. Hardy |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1467153826 |
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Hidden History of the Minnesota River Valley
| Author | : Elizabeth Johanneck |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 158 |
| Release | : 2010-05-13 |
| Genre | : Photography |
| ISBN | : 1614231958 |
Traveled by mammoth-hunters and motorcyclists alike, the Minnesota River Valley shows the traces of a unique legacy: where else are you going to find a political party with ideals based on honest conversation and gymnastics? Not all of it is as lovely as the natural scenery it accompaniesMankato was the site of the largest mass execution in United States historybut its heritage demands contemplation. Discover the valleys most enterprising characters, from Fort Snelling bootleggers like Pierre Pigs Eye Parrant to the Granite Falls lawyer behind Prohibition, Andrew Volstead. With a guide like Johanneck, you might meet some familiar figures in surprising circumstances as she steals up behind Dr. Mayo at the grave he was robbing for medical research or catches FBI director J. Edgar Hoover in a moment of unguarded correspondence.
Hidden History of the Lower Hudson Valley
| Author | : Carney Rhinevault |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 223 |
| Release | : 2012-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1614238227 |
Today's travelers between New York City and Albany are more familiar with the Thruway than with the old Albany Post Road. But for centuries, this was the main highway between the Big Apple and the capital, and many exciting events occurred along its path in the Lower Hudson Valley. The Dutch Philipse family of Sleepy Hollow engaged in piracy, and tales of such misdeeds from the region inspired Washington Irving to write some of his most beloved stories. Later, prisoners used the road as an escape route from the original Sing Sing prison. During Prohibition, a "beer hose" ran through Yonkers, allegedly placed along the route by beer baron Dutch Schultz. With illustrations by Tatiana Rhinevault, local historian Carney Rhinevault uncovers the stories hidden behind the old mile markers of the Albany Post Road.
School Segregation in Western North Carolina
| Author | : Betty Jamerson Reed |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2011-10-14 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0786487089 |
Although African Americans make up a small portion of the population of western North Carolina, they have contributed much to the area's physical and cultural landscape. This enlightening study surveys the region's segregated black schools from Reconstruction through integration and reveals the struggles, achievements, and ultimate victory of a unified community intent on achieving an adequate education for its children. The book documents the events that initially brought blacks into Appalachia, early efforts to educate black children, the movement to acquire and improve schools, and the long process of desegregation. Personnel issues, curriculum, extracurricular activities, sports, consolidation, and construction also receive attention. Featuring commentary from former students, teachers and parents, this work weighs the value and achievement of rural segregated black schools as well as their significance for educators today.
Buried in the Bitter Waters
| Author | : Elliot Jaspin |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 354 |
| Release | : 2008-05-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0786721979 |
"Leave now, or die!" Those words-or ones just as ominous-have echoed through the past hundred years of American history, heralding a very unnatural disaster-a wave of racial cleansing that wiped out or drove away black populations from counties across the nation. While we have long known about horrific episodes of lynching in the South, this story of racial cleansing has remained almost entirely unknown. These expulsions, always swift and often violent, were extraordinarily widespread in the period between Reconstruction and the Depression era. In the heart of the Midwest and the Deep South, whites rose up in rage, fear, and resentment to lash out at local blacks. They burned and killed indiscriminately, sweeping entire counties clear of blacks to make them racially "pure." Many of these counties remain virtually all-white to this day. In Buried in the Bitter Waters, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Elliot Jaspin exposes a deeply shameful chapter in the nation's history-and one that continues to shape the geography of race in America.
Lost Cove, North Carolina
| Author | : Christy A. Smith |
| Publisher | : McFarland |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2021-11-29 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1476686084 |
Located just seconds from the winding Tennessee border, the remote mountain settlement of Lost Cove, North Carolina was once described as where the "moonshiner frolics unmolested." Today, Lost Cove is a ghost town accessible mainly to hikers hoping to catch a glimpse of the desolate settlement. In this first historically comprehensive book on Lost Cove, the author paints a portrait of an isolated yet thriving settlement that survived for almost one hundred years. From its founding before the Civil War to the town's ultimate decline, Lost Cove's history is an in-depth account of family life and kinship in isolation. The author explores historically relevant interviews and genealogical findings from railroad documents, old newspaper articles, church records and deeds. Also included are oral histories that provide authentic, conversational accounts from families in the cove.
The Untold Story of Frankie Silver
| Author | : Perry Deane Young |
| Publisher | : iUniverse |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2012-05-04 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 9781475917475 |
Three days before Christmas in 1831, Frankie Silver killed her husband, Charles Silver, with an axe and burned his body in the fireplace. Author Perry Deane Young, whose ancestors were involved in the case, began collecting material about it as a teenager. As a college student, he was astounded to learn that most of what he had been told was actually false. Abused by her husband, Frankie killed in self defense. The laws of that time would not allow her to take the stand and explain what happened. She was unjustly hanged in July of 1833. Young proves the real crime is the way this poor woman has been misrepresented by balladeers and historians all these years. Perry Deane Young provides important historical background to this fascinating story Young is able to build suspense, even for a story many of his readers may already knowBy personalizing both Frankie Silvers story and his own search for it, Young has given readers an interesting and well-written book about history and the way it is created. --Lynn Moss Sanders in Appalachian Journal Most of my life Ive heard stories about a pretty mountain lady who was hanged for nothing more serious than murdering her husband. Here, and I can say at last after one and a half centuries, is the true account, thoroughly researched and beautifully presented. Its a highroad journey into this Appalachian mystery. --John Ehle, author of The Land Breakers, The Road, The Journey of August King
Hidden Carolinas
| Author | : Catherine O'Neal |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 2003-05 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781569753422 |
This virtual bed-and-breakfast guide recommends over 100 one-of-a-kind inns in the Carolinas, plus all the parks, resorts and town attractions. 17 maps. Illustrations.
Cabins in the Laurel
| Author | : Muriel Earley Sheppard |
| Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2014-03-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1469620774 |
In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley -- an isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains. Sheppard began visiting her neighbors and forming friendships in remote coves and rocky clearings, and in 1935 her account of life in the mountains -- Cabins in the Laurel -- was published. The book included 128 striking photographs by the well-known Chapel Hill photographer, Bayard Wootten, a frequent visitor to the area. The early reviews of Cabins in the Laurel were overwhelmingly positive, but the mountain people -- Sheppard's friends and subjects -- initially felt that she had portrayed them as too old-fashioned, even backward. As novelist John Ehle shows in his foreword, though, fifty years have made a huge difference, and the people of the Toe River Valley have been among its most affectionate readers. This new large-format edition, which makes use of many of Wootten's original negatives, will introduce Sheppard's words and Wootten's photography to a whole new generation of readers -- in the Valley and beyond.
Hidden Carolinas
| Author | : Stacy Ritz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 444 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781569750285 |
