My Year Down the Rabbit Hole: National Parks on the Air

My Year Down the Rabbit Hole: National Parks on the Air
Author: Edward Breneiser
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1365770117

This book describes my year traveling from one national park to the next during the year of 2016. I traveled with Walt, KB3SBC and took many pictures of just gorgeous locations! We traveled over 9,000 road miles, over 8,500 air miles all while operating our ham radios. Come join me on my year down the rabbit hole!

Complete National Parks of the United States

Complete National Parks of the United States
Author: Mel White
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2016
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1426216920

From New England to Alaska, this 544 page resource is filled with helpful advice, historical background, and practical facts on how to reach scores of park system properties, when to go, and what to do there.

U.C.A.P.

U.C.A.P.
Author: Skip Van Rensalier
Publisher: Page Publishing Inc
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2023-02-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Paterson is the third largest city in the state of New Jersey. It is the home of Larry Doby (the first African American baseball player to play in the American League in 1947), the world-famous comedian Lou Costello, the Great Falls National Historic Park, the Huntoon-Van Rensalier underground railroad site, the Hinchliffe Stadium (where many teams from the old Negro Baseball League played, including the New York Black Yankees), and the first submarine, which was invented and manufactured by John Holland, a Paterson schoolteacher. But the lifeblood of Paterson are the ones who proudly call themselves Patersonians. These are the people who were born, raised, lived, worked, played, or raised their own families in Paterson. In UCAP: Up Close and Paterson, you will hear from a small sampling of current and former residents who comprise the ethnic, socioeconomic, cultural, political, and religious diversity that is Paterson, New Jersey. Through their personal stories, you will get a brief glimpse into the soul of the city dubbed the Silk City. And even with their contrasting and oftentimes very candid views of how different Paterson is now compared to when they grew up, there's no denying the love and pride they have for the city they call home, "P-Town!"

Great Falls of Paterson

Great Falls of Paterson
Author: Marcia A. Dente
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738573229

In 1778, the Great Falls became the Paterson area's natural energy source. The innovative hydraulic "Raceway" used an intricate network of canals to channel millions of gallons of water to power local mills and factories. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton helped to organize the Society for the Establishment of Useful Manufactures, which aimed to develop a planned industrial city in the United States. Hamilton believed that the country needed to reduce its dependence on foreign goods and develop its own industries, and the falls were chosen as the site for the planned city. The industries in Paterson were powered by the 77-foot Great Falls, and the city became known as "the cradle of American industry." Today the falls are not only a national historic landmark and a state park, but on March 30, 2009, Pres. Barack Obama signed a bill creating Great Falls National Historical Park.

Conscientious Objector

Conscientious Objector
Author: Wayne R. Ferren Jr.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Total Pages: 456
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1480897043

What would you do if you were drafted to fight in a war? As a conscientious objector opposed to all wars, Wayne R. Ferren Jr. had to answer that question during the Vietnam War. He called on his religious and scientific backgrounds as well as his environmental activism to argue that he should be excluded from fighting in, or supporting this war. Following a successful defense of his claim, Wayne served two years of alternative civilian service, which influenced his professional and personal life for the next fifty years. Decades after his service, he was shocked to find his name on the Vietnam War Memorial, which turned out to be that of another young man with a similar name born the same year Wayne was born. That man died in 1968 when his plane was hit by artillery fire and crash landed at Khe Sanh Marine Combat Base. He will forever remain a teenage father killed in a senseless war. To this day, the duality haunts the author, and in this multifaceted memoir, he looks back at a lifetime and how his background, scientific training, and transcendentalism have guided him on a path of conscientious objection, service, and conservation, believing all things are sacred.

Legislative Calendar

Legislative Calendar
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources
Publisher:
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

Toward a Healthier Garden State

Toward a Healthier Garden State
Author: Michael R. Greenberg
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2023-04-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1978832028

While New Jersey now frequently appears near the top in listings of America’s healthiest states, this has not always been the case. The fluctuations in the state’s overall levels of health have less to do with the lifestyle choices of individual residents and more to do with broader structural issues, ranging from pollution to urban design to the consolidation of the health care industry. This book uses the past fifty years of New Jersey history as a case study to illustrate just how much public policy decisions and other upstream factors can affect the health of a state’s citizens. It reveals how economic and racial disparities in health care were exacerbated by bad policies regarding everything from zoning to education to environmental regulation. The study further chronicles how New Jersey struggled to deal with public health crises like the AIDS epidemic and the crack epidemic. Yet it also explores how the state has developed some of the nation’s most innovative responses to public health challenges, and then provides policy suggestions for how we might build an even healthier New Jersey.