Dawn's Early Light

Dawn's Early Light
Author: Elswyth Thane
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2017-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1613738153

Elswyth Thane is best known for her Williamsburg series, seven novels published between 1943 and 1957 that follow several generations of two families from the American Revolution to World War II. Dawn's Early Light is the first novel in the series. In it, Colonial Williamsburg comes alive. Thane centers her novel around four major characters: the Aristrocratic St. John Sprague, who becomes George Washington's aide; Regina Greensleeves, a Virginia beauty spoiled by a season in London; Julian Day, a young schoolmaster who arrives from England on the eve of the war and initially thinks of himself as a Tory; and Tibby Mawes, one of his less fortunate pupils, saddled with an alcoholic father and an indigent mother. But we also see Washington, Jefferson, Lafayette, Greene, Patrick Henry, Francis Marion, and the rest of that brilliant galaxy playing their roles not as historical figures but as men. We see de Kalb's gallant death under a cavalry charge at Camden. We penetrate to the swamp-encircled camp which was Marion's stronghold on the Peedee. We watch the cat-and-mouse game between Cornwallis and Lafayette, which ended in Cornwallis's unlucky stand at Yorktown. Dawn's Early Light is the human story behind our first war for liberty, and of the men and women loving and laughing through it to the dawn of a better world.

Williamsburg at Dawn

Williamsburg at Dawn
Author:
Publisher: Telford Publications
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2011-06-22
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0983146837

Williamsburg Before and After

Williamsburg Before and After
Author: George Humphrey Yetter
Publisher: Colonial Williamsburg
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1988
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780879350772

George Yetter's informative text describes why Williamsburg was founded and flourished during the colonial period. He traces the deterioration that followed when the capital moved to Richmond in 1780, and concludes with the exciting story of how Williamsburg's past was saved. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps capture "pre-restoration" Williamsburg. Lovely color "after" photographs show that the vision and dream have been fulfilled.

Kissing Kin

Kissing Kin
Author: Elswyth Thane
Publisher: Rare Treasure Editions
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2021-11-10T13:12:00Z
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1774644231

Volume 5 of The Williamsburg Series. This is the adventures of the twins Calvert and Camilla Scott from the First World War through 1934. Both of them go overseas, Camilla to act as nurse's aid in the hospitals run by her cousins in London and Gloucestershire. Calvert to serve briefly on the crew of a big gun. Chiefly it is Camilla's story, her futile love for a Frenchman; her involvement in the stormy passions of Jenny and the American who - with Calvert - had managed to survive the destruction of the gun crew, and who nearly lost his life thereafter. The threads of previous stories are fitted into place, gathering momentum, seeming to build up into a love story between the duke's daughter and the poor mechanic. And in the last quarter, death and disaster; a brief interlude between Camilla and a young Nazi; and the story ends with two matings, and the build-up for World War II.

The Dragons of Silent Mountain

The Dragons of Silent Mountain
Author: Dawn Brotherton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781939696717

When people start disappearing, Ashton is compelled to discover if the tales of dragons are true. She may be labeled as crazy as her grandfather, but she must unravel the mystery of her birthright.

Dawn of Ra

Dawn of Ra
Author: Maciek Sasinowski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781736792629

TOGETHER THEY SHALL RULE THE ISLAND.DIVIDED THEY SHALL FALL.Millennia before Alyssa, Paul, and Tasha? The ancient Rathadi and Pureans live side by side. Among them, a young boy. Exiled from his island home, He rises to become worshipped as the falcon-headed god.This is his prophecy. This is his story.This is how it all began.

The Duel

The Duel
Author: Judith St. George
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2016-05-10
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0425288218

Learn more about the men who inspired Hamilton: The Musical in this fascinating look at the historical friends turned revolutionary rivals! In curiously parallel lives, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr were both orphaned at an early age. Both were brilliant students who attended college--one at Princeton, the other at Columbia--and studied law. Both were young staff officers under General George Washington, and both became war heroes. Politics beckoned them, and each served in the newly formed government of the fledgling nation. Why, then, did these two face each other at dawn in a duel that ended with death for one and harsh criticism for the other? Judith St. George's lively biography, told in alternating chapters, brings to life two complex men who played major roles in the formation of the United States.

Flights of Imagination

Flights of Imagination
Author: Sonja Dümpelmann
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 579
Release: 2014-09-19
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0813935849

In much the same way that views of the earth from the Apollo missions in the late 1960s and early 1970s led indirectly to the inauguration of Earth Day and the modern environmental movement, the dawn of aviation ushered in a radically new way for architects, landscape designers, urban planners, geographers, and archaeologists to look at cities and landscapes. As icons of modernity, airports facilitated the development of a global economy during the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, reshaping the way people thought about the world around them. Professionals of the built environment awoke to the possibilities offered by the airports themselves as sites of design and by the electrifying new aerial perspective on landscape. In Flights of Imagination, Sonja Dümpelmann follows the evolution of airports from their conceptualization as landscapes and cities to modern-day plans to turn decommissioned airports into public urban parks. The author discusses landscape design and planning activities that were motivated, legitimized, and facilitated by the aerial view. She also shows how viewing the earth from above redirected attention to bodily experience on the ground and illustrates how design professionals understood the aerial view as simultaneously abstract and experiential, detailed and contextual, harmful and essential. Along the way, Dümpelmann traces this multiple dialectic from the 1920s to the land-camouflage activities during World War II, and from the environmental and landscape planning initiatives of the 1960s through today.

Haunted Historic Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia

Haunted Historic Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia
Author: Tim Scullion
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780764358890

In this second edition of over 230 ghostly photographs from photographer Tim Scullion, view 114 brand-new images and read seven new chapters that bring the hauntings of Williamsburg, Virginia, alive. Continue along Scullion's paranormal odyssey to capture and describe each apparition and the historical and paranormal background of the eighteenth-century houses and buildings afflicted to see what new observations have sprung forth from the world "behind the curtain." Scullion has learned the secret to consistently capturing the city's ghostly apparitions on camera. You will see images that are beautiful, ugly, horrifying, and bizarre, and that defy explanation. Are they ghosts, aliens, angels, or demons? Take a look via digital technology as you peer into a new world of the improbable, the unexplained, the impossible, and the biggest mystery of our existence--life after death!